Author Topic: FREE Tools of the Trade! (Read 64130 times)

theology101 · « **Reply #10 on:** May 04, 2012, 02:22:10 AM »

I use LibreOffice productivity suite, the GIMP for image editing.

Ascetik · « **Reply #11 on:** May 04, 2012, 10:22:07 AM »

LibreOffice and GIMP are great.

You can practically turn GIMP into Photoshop with a few plugins.

theology101 · « **Reply #12 on:** May 04, 2012, 08:39:56 PM »

Quote from: Ascetik

LibreOffice and GIMP are great.

You can practically turn GIMP into Photoshop with a few plugins.

I keep trying to turn my sister to GIMP- she is a digital artist and does great work with PS, but pays sooo much for it. She says GIMP just doesn't have all the same features as PS, but I think it has enough to not really make a difference. Who uses every single feature of any program?

theology101 · « **Reply #13 on:** May 30, 2012, 12:04:38 AM »

PS for maths and science fans-

GNU Octave (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/) is an open source alternative to Matlab. I use Matlab a lot, as it is the most popular math/engineering software in the world. Octave is just like Matlab and Matlab users can immediately pick it up. Needs *nix OS...

LTSpice (http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/#LTspice) is an open source alt to circuit simulation software like PSPICE and Multisim. Windoze. Never used it, there is another in the *nix repos that I forget the name of, but should be easy enough to find.

HiddenServant · « **Reply #14 on:** December 09, 2015, 02:15:54 PM »

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