Start A Design Studio Using Only Free Software

Adobe, AutoDesk, Apple, etc. make great creative software, but free and open source software has been steadily developing over the past three decades and is now approaching if not exceeding the capabilities and stability of commercial proprietary software. I want to show you how far it has come. Description: This talk will introduce and discuss about a dozen free and open source projects that allow digital creatives to begin a career without spending a single penny on software. The talk will be for beginners as well as experienced artists. Free and open source software isn't just better because it's free, it's better because it's easy to learn and use, rapidly developing, increasingly growing in popularity around the world, and as a result creating more compatible standards across creative industries. About the speaker: Brent Patterson Brent is an artist, designer, and professor at SUNY Buffalo State College. He has thirty years of experience as a digital creative and over fifteen years of free and open source software experience.