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I absolutely love finding awesome open source software. I don’t know why it entertains me so much. I guess it’s because I feel like I’m getting away with something. Like a little kid that just successfully snagged a cookie from the jar.

Whatever the reason, it happened again. I was helping Laura with some graphics for her blog, and what I needed was a good vector graphics editor. I often use Gimp for most of my graphics needs (another awesome open source program), but for the intricacies of these particular graphics, raster just wasn’t going to cut it.

A quick read through some bulletin postings, and I found Inkscape. Still in its relative infancy, this program was able to take a raster copy of the graphic I was trying to duplicate and quickly traced it into a multilayer vector image that I could easily manipulate.

Like most full-featured graphics programs, the litany of tools and options will take me weeks to explore, but that’s half the fun. The other half is, of course, turning out cool, clean vector graphics.

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