Gimp is similar to Photoshop, but not to Illustrator! Try Inkscape (http://inkscape.org/ http://inkscape.org/) for that. In many cases I found it to be more use

Gimp is similar to Photoshop, but not to Illustrator! Try Inkscape (http://inkscape.org/ http://inkscape.org/) for that. In many cases I found it to be more user friendly than Illustrator.