We continue our tutorial about web design free software, briefly presenting alternatives for the program to edit pictures and the flash animation.
Image editor - no doubt, the best alternative to a powerful program like Adobe Photoshop is a GIMP. GIMP is an open source image editor (which means, in essence, can be used free of charge) and provides users most classic functions of a program similar performance. The GIMP can do advanced processing of images and animations. Gif and can work on the layers (layers).
The program has an important collection of special effects and also allows for image maps. Although originally developed for users of Linux, GIMP works smoothly and under Windows, provided that the user must have previously installed the GTK + Runtime Environment (which can be downloaded right along with GIMP).
On site tutorials www.gimp.org to find details of using the program GIMP.
Another interesting photo editor is free and VCW VicMan's PhotoEditor freeware, but it lacks one essential function: to work on layers. The web design is essential that you can manage graphics independently of each other.