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Useful tools and utilities - drawing and image editing
It's not only free web hosting account that you need when making your
free hosted web site. You may need some other stuff such as graphic tools and maybe
even some WYSIWYG web editors to make it easier. So let's see what is available
for free and what is easy to use..
When looking for some paint and image editing tools there are several nice
and capable tools to mention. One of them is certainly Gimp.
Gimp is an open source
painting and image editing tool strong enough
to be used in all occasions when graphics needs to be made or if
adjustments to existing picture are needed. It is often compared to PaintShopPro
and Photoshop but the biggest difference is that this tool is free.
If making free hosted web site, this is a tool which can do many things
paid programs do but it comes at no cost and is available for download.
It consists of two parts, because GIMP needs GTK library to function.
Both can be downloaded freely from gimp.org.
It works on Windows, Linux and other operating systems.
Well, there is another awesome tool which can be used freely. It is called
Inkscape.
Inkscape is actually vector drawing tool.
It is not completely the same as most graphic tools which are raster based. All in all, the background of it
may not be so important for someone making images for a website. The best thing
is to try this tool, it is excellent. Simply said, the difference is that you can for example draw a line
and then modify it to your liking, make various shapes and curves out of it.
That is a main difference from usual tools where you
have to delete and redraw something. It uses SVG or scalable vector graphics
which is natural Inkscape format. Be sure to explore and play with it for a while
because this tool is really awesome. Inkscape also uses GTK library.
Read more about it at inkscape.org.
Pixia is another great
freeware drawing tool. As they say on the about pixia
page: It can be used any way you like it, except that it cannot be sold. The copyright of the artwork
created by Pixia belongs to the creator where Pixia is just a tool.
Artweaver
is also capable and useful program which can be used to build a website.
It has layers and transparency support and many brushes which can be tweaked
to give the results you need. You have choice of many filters and tools to aid you
in making excellent pictures or in editing existing ones.
On Artweaver FAQ page it is stated that "you may use Artweaver both for private ones as
well as for commercial purposes without limitations".
It is only 6.5 Mb download size but is quite powerful little tool which can be used to
do painting and editing needed in designing graphical elements of a page.
