free alternatives to Photoshop and CorelDraw

[flat6]

Photoshop for general image editing
CorelDraw for vector-based images

They don't have to rival the feature-set (obviously not going to happen with free software) but just something basic would be nice.

 

[bousozoku]

I'd say The GIMP and Inkscape but I'm having trouble importing artwork from Illustrator into Inkscape.

 

[Kernow]

I used Inkscape for quite a while before finally caving in and getting Illustrator - it is a pretty good program with a decent feature set. Having said that, it suffers from the same problem I found with GIMP - i.e. the interface is not the most user-friendly and is most definitely not mac-like. However, for free programs they are excellent, and if you are not going to splash out on PS/Illustrator then they are probably worth the effort.