[Otishertz]

Free Open Source Software

Faststone Image Viewer

http://download.cnet.com/FastStone-Image-Viewer/3000-2192_4-10599301.html?tag=lst-0-1


Gimp Photoshop Alternative

http://www.gimp.org/windows/


Google Sketchup 3D drawing tool.

http://sketchup.google.com/intl/en/download/index.html


3Skeng Pipe Drawing Mod for Sketchup. Not free but has long free evaluation period and is very good.

http://www.3skeng.com/en/download.htm

Open Office replacement for Office, Excel, and Power Point.

http://www.openoffice.org/


Videolan Media Player

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/


Firefox Web Browser

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/fx/


Firefox bookmark synchronizer

http://www.xmarks.com/


Firefox Ad Blocker

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/


Free image hosting

http://photobucket.com/


Low cost DIY web hosting

http://support.hostgator.com/


Free forum software - Hostgator has installer.

http://download.simplemachines.org/

[Smokeyhot]

Cool!

[DrRabbit]

I do a lot of drawing, but cry when shelling out the $$$ for Adobe Illustrator.

If you don't excersise layers very intensely, I recommend Inkscape for vector graphics.

[Otishertz]

I was trying to remember the name of that program. I haven't used it yet but I did download it a while back. I need to convert some drawings to vectors to enlarge. Most of my art can't get larger than a computer screen before it looks like it was put together by Pac-Man.

[Smokeyhot]

lol. Your hilarious!

[sativa]

very cool, terrapins a artist i will turn him onto these sites.  blessed be,,, can i say something... your choice of smiley faces rock da socks!    :potogold: peace sativa

[Otishertz]

Google Sketchup is very good for rendering 3D models. A novice can learn how to do it in a few hours.

http://sketchup.google.com/


I used Sketchup for the greenhouse models here:

http://www.otisgardens.com/forum/index.php?topic=105.0