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Free alternatives to Adobe software
Adobe software is very popular these days. It is also very expensive. If you are not a professional and use it at work place you may be interested in some free alternatives. Here are few free popular alternatives to Adobe software.
Adobe Photoshop – free alternatives:
The Gimp is graphics editor and image manipulation software. Is is Windows version of Linux software, so it has interface uncommon for Windows application but still very clean and easy to use.
It is designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP, Vista or 2000. Very easy to use. It requires Microsoft .NET framework 2.0 installed.
Adobe Dreamweaver – free alternative:
It is a free, open-source WYSIWYG web design application. It is designed to be extremely easy to use.
Adobe Premiere – free alternatives:
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs.
VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
Adobe Acrobat and Reader – free alternatives:
Read more about PDFCreator i this post.
Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer, with incredible small size (only 2.55 M download size), breezing-fast launch speed and rich feature set. Foxit Reader supports Windows Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista.



good post, thanks for this!
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