As a freelance web designer, I really thought migrating to Ubuntu Linux will give me a really hard time. I never thought that Ubuntu Linux has a very good graphic design tool that can do what I am doing with Photoshop. Although Gimp is still way too different with Photoshop, I still see Gimp as a very powerful tool in graphic and web designing. It also possess features that Photoshop has.

Another tool is Pixel, although Pixel is a commercial software which means its not free and currently sold at $38, its interface is more similar to Photoshop than Gimp.

With these powerful tools along with Inkscape Vector Illustrator, my graphic and web design freelancing will experience a major leap and I am thinking of promoting these tools to freelance filipino designers or other freelance designers out there and be one with the open source community.

If still, you have no plans of using this tools that Ubuntu Linux provides, and choose to continue designing in Photoshop but you wish to migrate to Ubuntu Linux, then just download Wine so you can install Adobe Photoshop up to version CS2.
So what do you guys think? Are we gonna go open source?

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