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Ask HN: Cheap / free vector image editing software?

5 points·thesyndicate··4 comments

Hey HN, I'm looking to make some mockups of a couple pages. I currently don't have Fireworks installed on my computer and I don't feel like paying a ridiculous amount of money for it.

Are there any decent free image editing programs that will allow me to do mockups? I don't need the complex tooling of Photoshop, just the ability to create vector images.

I am running Win 7.

Inkscape is what springs to mind. Scribus might also be worth a look.

http://gomockingbird.com/ is also quite good if you want to do wireframes

http://www.gimp.org/

Not sure if Gimp is any good these days, but my friend used to use it in lieu of photoshop.

http://aviary.com/ You can make some nice graphics with this one and also learn from others

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