Software Alternatives to What We Use
- 2. Netlab Open source Alternatives for CS3 Suite Open source Alternatives for MS Office
- 3. Project that Dale is working on Students connect to a Virtual Machine through a web browser Login to server Schedule time on a Virtual Machine Do their work on the Virtual Machine
- 4. The Virtual Machine is loaded with the software that students need for the class It is possible for multiple students to work on the same Virtual Machine for group assignments Instructors can connect to and help students on their Virtual Machine
- 5. CS3 Suite includes Photoshop Illustrator Acrobat Dreamweaver Flash Soundbooth InDesign AfterEffects Two types of Alternatives Web-based Do all your work on the web Local clients Install a program to your computer
- 6. Most web-based products are just for photoshop Popular and powerful tools Aviary Suite Splashup SUMO Paint
- 7. Aviary suite ( http://aviary.com/home ) includes four products Phoenix : image editor Peacock : visual laboratory Raven : vector editor Toucan : color palettes Have to have an account to save work used on the site Can export flat versions of your files (jpg and gif) to your personal computer There is a free and paid versions Free version can be used indefinitely but are limited to 50 public files Paid version can be had through a scholarship program for students and educators
- 8. Splashup ( http://www.splashup.com ) Photo-editor Can save as jpg, png, fxo to local comptuer or to the web (facebook, flickr, picasa, smugsmug, photobucket, http://) Has a Lite-verison that can be installed locally SUMO Paint ( http://www.sumopaint.com )
- 9. Adobe Photoshop Paint.net ( http://www.getpaint.net ) Windows based The GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/) Windows, Mac OS X, Linux Adobe Illustrator Inkspace ( http://www.inkscape.org/ ) Windows, Mac OS X 10.3+, Linux
- 10. Adobe Acrobat Foxit PDF Reader ( http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ ) Free Reader / Paid Editor PrimoPDF ( http://www.primopdf.com/ ) Create PDF files from 300+ file types Make PDF documents for different uses, including viewing, eBooks, office printing and prepress (high-end printing) Combine PDF files after they are converted Secure with passwords and add document information (title, author, etc.) during creation
- 11. Dreamweaver KompoZer ( http://kompozer.net/ ) Windows, Mac OS X, Linux Complete web authoring system that combines web file management and easy-to-use WYSIWYG web page editing. Designed to be extremely easy to use, making it ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding.
- 12. Flash Synfig Studio ( http://www.synfig.org/ ) Windows, Mac OS X, Linux Requires four files installed in order: Gtkmm, Gtk+, Synfig Core, and Synfig Studio Neither Flash nor Synfig make for quick studies without a guide, but both are learnable. Whether Synfig is truly capable of competing with Flash for complex multimedia animations remains to be seen. Is anyone out there giving it a try?
- 13. Adobe Soundbooth Audacity ( http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ ) Windows, Mac OS X, Linux Very popular Adobe InDesign Scribus ( http://www.scribus.net/ ) Windows, Mac OS X, Linux Scribus does have some oddities, mostly related to the scaling of imported images, but there's something else about it that's far more interesting: it painlessly brings in documents from the OpenOffice.org suite and it uses The GIMP for image editing.
- 14. Adobe AfterEffects Jahshaka ( http://jahshaka.org/ ) Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
- 15. Open Office ( http://www.openoffice.org/ ) Windows, Mac OS X, Linux Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and Access alternatives Draw – lets you produce everything from simple diagrams to dynamic 3D illustrations Zoho ( http://www.zoho.com/ ) Web-based Have to sign up to use, but is free Word, Powerpoint, and Excel alternatives Can use google or yahoo log-ins