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Here are some free software solutions for publishing-related tasks. These are programs that are "mature," meaning well supported and very functional.

IMAGE MANIPULATION

The GIMP: This can do most of what Photoshop can do, especially if you take advantage of the various plugins available.

Paint.NET: Another replacement for Photoshop, and is supposed to be very good.

Inkscape: This is a wonderful program for working with lines, text, vector art, etc. It has totally replaced Illustrator for me.

DESKTOP PUBLISHING

LibreOffice: This is an excellent replacement for MS Word. It is capable of being used as a layout program, though it is not as powerful as other software that is specialized for the task. Having said that, you can get good results for layout.

Scribus: This is a proper layout program, though the learning curve is steep and it has its own complications and limitations. [UPDATE] I've been playing around with this and IMHO the learning curve is not actually that bad. Handling tables is kind of fiddly but otherwise this is a great program.

WEBSITE DESIGN

Amaya: An open source alternative to Dreamweaver.

Weebly can be used to design a simple but clean website to get you started. If you learn to fiddle with HTML you can customize your site based on what you do in Weebly.

Namecheap.com: I use this site for registering domain names.

I would suggest Google Sitesfor websites as well.

I also use Google Drive and MS Skydrive for "cloud" storage.

Hello all, great topic!

I use LibreCad for dealing with dungeon geometry design. You can import the .dxf file to inkscape and make it pretty afterwards.

Attention: At least for debian gnu/linux and its derivatives, the installation of python-lxml is required as well in order for Inkscape to be able to open .dxf files.

Thanks for the link! (I fixed the link in your post since you didn't yet have 5 postings)

I'd never heard of that program before, but it looks really useful.

Yes Google Drive is normally used for Cloud Storage and I have used this till now. I don't want to change this because I am getting satisfactory results with this which I required.

New member.

Hello all.

Thank you so much for the links.

I lost my old Cs3 license after a computer crash and this stuff looks very useful indeed!

Great source!

Digital painters/illustrators may be interested in Krita or Mypaint

Both look interesting...

Will have to give them a look-thanks for posting them.