Most of you know that I fully support the open source world, while I hack away as a ‘jack of all trades’ developing currently in .NET (C# and ASP.NET). I also don’t mind NOT having to pay for things like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. I have both because I love to support and there are soooo many tutorials out there that even an amature can pretty much achieve a goal. I do most of my graphics in AI or PS.

But, I also love to use Inkscape and GIMP. These are the two open source rivals to the Adobe line. And let me tell you this…if you don’t mind the minor learning curve, you can do anything and everything you can do in these two free graphic software that you can do with Adobe’s AI and PS. Now, I should also let most of you know that Inkscape is Vector based and GIMP is Raster. To most that doesn’t mean much so I won’t go into technical details.

Anyway, the main reason for this post is to let those of you know that the GIMP just released a new and improved version: 2.4

I’ll load it up here in a few days and give it a spin. Maybe I’ll write a review this time!