I’d really like to do some professional graphics, but I need pro tools and I’m broke. Can you tell me how to get free Photoshop software or free Illustrator software?
Over the years, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator have become industry standards among graphics professionals. The way to get Photoshop for free or get Illustrator for free would be to try to download a cracked Photoshop or a cracked Illustrator off a peer-to-peer file sharing network or via bittorrent, but when you do that, you take huge risks of getting other software you don’t want installed along with them. On top of that, it’s illegal and can carry penalties if you’re caught.
The thing many people don’t know is there are programs that are being given away that make it almost like you’re getting Photoshop for free.
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Ted from Eagle Rock writes: Recently, my kids have been talking about DRM and how bad it is. I don’t want to look tragically uncool by asking them these questions. What is DRM? Is it on my computer? If it is, can I get rid of it or do I need it?
DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. It’s basically a catch-all category for software that controls how you use and/or copy other software or files. It runs the gamut from Windows Genuine Advantage, which checks to make sure you’re not running a pirated copy of Windows, to the mechanisms used in some music files to try and make sure that only the person who bought the file plays it. Read the rest of this article »
K. in Pasco writes: I keep hearing about open source software. Is it better than regular software? How is it different?
There are basically two types of software: open source and closed source (with some grey areas in between).
With open source, when you buy or are given the software, you also get the source code or instructions on how to download the source code. This allows you to read the underlying programming instructions of the computer program(s) in the package and make changes if you want/need to. The Linux and Free BSD operating systems are open source. Read the rest of this article »

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