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A start-up in E-commerce, subsidiary of a 100-crore group is looking for Web-site designers and Graphic Designers on Open-Source alternative.
Can my friends here guide me on what is a good alternative
I second GIMP. Also consider inkscape. Recent browsers support SVG, inkscape creates fantastic graphics for the web. btw, it is also good for designing user interfaces as a specification.
I vote for Inkscape <http://inkscape.org http://inkscape.org/> and GIMP <http://www.gimp.org http://www.gimp.org/> combo too. Inkscape offers a great workflow and crisp vector graphics for interface design. GIMP is a great image editing and manipulation tool. And ImageMagick http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php for batch editing and quickly optimizing or converting images to different formats using a rich suite of command line tools. This combination has worked really great for my web designing needs.
Thank you all who replied... Going with GIMP and Inkscape as suggested.