Here is a tutorial on using Inkscape to create animations for Flash. While Second Life is not able to display Flash files at this time, Flash is a critical component of the web (and mobile). You will need to download the free SWF Tools and Inkscape in order to complete this tutorial.

We've written extensively about Gimp, the free open source image editing program that handles many of the same features as Adobe's Photoshop. While Gimp is a fantastic program, and is essential if you are doing design work for SL, another image editing specialty is vector graphics (more info on vector graphics can be found here).

Another must have free program is the open source vector graphics editor Inkscape. It gives you similar functionality to Adobe's Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. So if you don't have Illustrator, go and grab Inkscape. It runs on Windows, OSX, and Linux. You can download it by clicking here.


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