Free and Donation Software

I answered a query today from a person seeking inexpensive creative software without going over to the darkside and piracy. In short Gimp is a good open source alternative to Photoshop and costs nothing but a good karma donation. Blender is a fantastic 3D application featuring some of the most recent developments in 3D technology. Scribus is a great Quark alternative and is available for free. I will add a lot more to this section soon as I know many have an interest in this. For now I've posted some useful links and screen shots.
http://www.gimp.org/
http://www.blender.org/
http://www.scribus.net/

Scribus Documentation can be downloaded here
http://docs.scribus.net/

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