If you don’t have money to buy the EXPENSIVE Adobe or Microsoft Office Software; Open-source software might be the best solution for you.
Open source software is computer software whose source code is available under a license (or arrangement such as the public domain) that permits users to use, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form. It is often developed in a public, collaborative manner and the best of all is that they are FREE!!!!
GIMP=Photoshop
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.
INKSCAPE= Illustrator
Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.
www.getpaint.net
OPEN OFFICE = Microsoft Office
Create Word Processing Docs, Spreadsheets, Graphic Applications and much more!!!
http://www.openoffice.org/
OPEN SOURCE LIBRARY
http://sourceforge.net/
GOOGLE DOCS
Open Directory Project page of browsers and plug-ins
http://www.dmoz.org
