Exactly, while they might not be as powerful as others, there are definitely free versions of these floating around that are more than able. The GIMP to replac

Exactly, while they might not be as powerful as others, there are definitely free versions of these floating around that are more than able. The GIMP to replace PS: http://www.gimp.org/ http://www.gimp.org/ Inkscape to replace Illustrator: http://inkscape.org/ http://inkscape.org/ Both of these are really good tools and you don't have to worry about any licensing constraints. The only piece of the puzzle that I haven't found an F/OSS version of is for animation.