I’ve been transitioning from purchased software to open source. My biggest leap is going to be making the jump from an old version of (pre-Adobe) Macromedia Fireworks to GIMP.
My life just got a tad easier with this collection of GIMP Tutorials. Now I’ve got a greater understanding of Gimp controls and features. I’ve been told if you use Photoshop, Gimp is just an open source version that has just about every feature. Well, I come from the Fireworks bench – so a lot of this is new territory.
Gimp is great! I used it for a few months as my chalkboard at school. I had a lot of my kids download it at home and mess around with it. I ended up going back to photoshop with my acquisition of CS3 for intel. Haven’t gone back yet. The jury is still out.