Free creative software tool chains went from dream to reality in recent years. They are mature, world-class and competitive. There have been more than 61 million downloads of the Audacity audio editor, and more than 60 million downloads of the GIMP for Windows image manipulation tool from SourceForge.net alone. Crafting Digital Media is your foundation course in image manipulation, illustration, animation, 3D modeling, publishing, recording audio and making music, DJ'ing maxing and mastering audio CDs, video editing and web countain delivery. Every technique describetd in the book can be achieved on GNU/Linux, but many of the applications covered run on Windows and Mac OS X as well. New to GNU/Linux, and feeling a little daunted? Don't worry; there is a step-by-step tutorial on Ubuntu, for either temporary use or permannt installastion //ir
