Quote Originally Posted by Girltron View Post
I actually downloaded the latest and greatest of GIMP and Inkscape this morning. It's worth a look, and I like the idea of open-source software anyway. GIMP looked quite promising. I seem to recall Inkscape wasn't totally a replacement for Illustrator yet, but it's been some time since I used it.
If you have the bandwidth to spair, try http://screencasters.heathenx.org/ for general purpose inkscape video tutorials.

That will give you a good feel for where the program is.

-Rob A>