> > Well, one piece of open source software I'll certainly be using is > Audacity, for editing audio files. It's as good as anything around for > simple podcast editing. GIMP is *not bad* for photo editing although I'm > much more familiar with Photoshop (and more qualified to use it). >
I'd not consider GIMP "fit-for-purpose" for heavy/major image work. I use it (because I work on Linux) and it is a pain in the... compared to Photoshop. > When it comes to design for brochures and booklets (for example) I'd use > Adobe Fireworks to create any graphics or images I'd need. Have you tried Inkscape (FOSS vector image editor)? I used to use Fireworks a lot and Inkscape turned out to be, surprisingly, a worthy upgrade on that. But there can be a learning curve if you're only a casual Fireworks user. Worth considering. Hopefully the above answers Tom M's question too. Beyond those pieces of > software I can't imagine I'd use the rest of Adobe CS at the moment - > although Dreamweaver may be useful for designing emails to members and > donors. Oh noes! Please don't :P Maybe try something like MailChimp's campaign editor (literally the best mail design tool ever!). Dreamweaver sucks bad enough for creating websites, let alone email ;) In fact - it might be worth looking at MailChimp for the Chapters mail campaigns/correspondence. On the main topic: I have a few CS Licenses kicking around which may include some of the software you need (no promises, I just know they exist somewhere, not the state of them :P). Let me have a look. Tom
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