Free software for our class

Welcome back, folks! So, for English 2353 we'll be getting some hands-on experience with a few of the digital tools of the trade. It's possible that you've already got some great graphics software, like Photoshop (Adobe's Pshop page is here) and/or a WYSIWYG editor for HTML, like Dreamweaver (Adobe's DW site). If so, that's great. If not - it turns out these programs are pretty pricey - may I recommend a few free programs that do very similar things very successfully.

• GIMP
  The name stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, and it does many of the things that Photoshop does, and the stuff it doesn't do, we won't be using in this class anyway. It's stable, popular, and I'm a fan of it. You can download the latest Windows version of it here. Click the big, orange word "DOWNLOAD" and your download will start. If a warning pops up in your browser, just click on the warning and select "Download File...".
• Kompozer
  Kompozer is a wysisyg HTML editor that has a ton of great features. The things it can't do, that a more robust program like Dreamweaver can, we won't need in this class. when you click the download button, follow the same procedure as you did with GIMP.

Photoshop and Dreamweaver are on several of the computers in JM 103. GIMP and Kompozer should be on most (all?) of the rest. Over the course of the semester, we'll be using these programs to produce some of our class assignments, so if you want them on your personal computer, these links will help you get them.