[GRLUG] Open source design tools

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> > I have a question for you. So I'm the citizen journalism coordinator for The
> > Rapidian, a hyperlocal journalism project, and we're installing open source
> > design tools on our computers. We want to link to tutorials on open source
> > design tools but none of us really know these particular tools. As the
> > organizer for one of the Linux groups, do you know of any good, free online
> > tutorials or could you put that question to your group? We're launching on
> > Sept. 15 and are trying to compile a page of resources together before then.
> > The tools we're installing are:
> > - Jing for screencasting
> > - Gimp for Photoshop

This site <http://www.pixel2life.com/search/all/gimp/1/> has some rather
nice tutorials for the GIMP.  And of course
<http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/>

> > - Audacity for audio
> > - Blender to replace After Effects (full 3D environment)
> > - Inkscape for Illustrator

See
<http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/10-of-the-best-inkscape-tutorials/>  And back to <http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/inkscape/>

For DTP Scribus is good and provides some introductory videos.
<http://www.scribus.net/>

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