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GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert
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quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X. [Less]
Inkscape is a drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG). The supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha
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blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, it supports Creative Commons meta-data, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, and SVG XML editing. It also imports several formats like EPS, Postscript, JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats. [Less]
Hugin is a toolkit for stitching photographs and assembling panoramas, together with an easy to use graphical front end.
Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources. While there are many other programs currently on the
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market to aid with the efficient production of 2D animation, we are currently unaware of any other software that can do what our software can. [Less]
Tux Paint is a simple and entertaining drawing program geared towards young children. It has a simple interface, sound effects, and a cartoon character (Tux, the Linux penguin). Along with drawing brush strokes, lines and shapes, you can also enter
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text and place "rubber stamp" (or "sticker") images on the picture. Tux Paint is extensible, and could be useful in an educational environment (such as a grammar, elementary, or grade school). It's portable across numerous platforms, and runs well even on slower systems like the Pentium 133MHz. [Less]
Sodipodi is a general purpose vector drawing application which uses a subset of W3C SVG as its file format. It uses an advanced imaging engine with antialiased display, alpha transparency, and vector fonts.
Meet Pixelpost, a small photoblog application that's a no-brainer to set up and use. It's perfect for anyone wishing to regularly post their photos on the web like a blog.
Unlike other blog engines out there, Pixelpost doesn't try to solve all of
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the worlds problems. Pixelpost simply does photoblogs, and it does them well. If you are looking for a full blown CMS or text-blog, Pixelpost isn't for you. But if you want something simple, and designed from the ground up for photobloggers, like yourself, you've found the perfect app.
Oh, and did I mention that Pixelpost is free and open source to boot? [Less]
GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP.
It shares all GIMP's
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advantages, including the long feature list and customisability, while addressing some common criticisms regarding the program's interface: GIMPshop modifies the menu structure to closely match Photoshop's, adjusts the program's terminology to match Adobe's, and, in the Windows version, uses a plugin called 'Deweirdifier' to combine the application's numerous windows in a similar manner to the MDI system used by most Windows graphics packages. GIMPshop supports all GIMP's own plugins, filters, brushes, etc. [Less]
OxygenOffice Professional is a free and open source enhancement of official OpenOffice.org. The OxygenOffice Professional Team has modified the source of OpenOffice.org and bundled lot of extras with it. Here are just a few of the extras you get with
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OxygenOffice Professional: More than 3,400 graphics are included, both clip art and photos. These pictures are integrated into the gallery and can easily be placed into any OxygenOffice document.Several templates and sample documents are included, as well as over 90 fonts. The extras are integrated by default in the installation of OxygenOffice Professional, but they are optional, so the user can decide what parts to include and what parts to leave out. These extra templates, fonts, and graphics are free for both personal and professional use. [Less]
sK1 is an open source vector graphics editor similar to CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, or Freehand. First of all sK1 is oriented for PostScript processing.
The major sK1 features:
* CMYK colorspace support
* CMYK support in Postscript
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* Cairo-based engine
* Color managment
* Universal CDR importer (7-X3 versions)
* Modern Ttk based (former Tile widgets) user interface [Less]
SPGM is a PHP script that displays online photo albums, providing users with very simple procedures for setting up and updating. Highly configurable, it includes several features (such as new pictures highlighting) for a perfect integration into Web sites.
Plugin for inkscape, which generates sliced bitmaps directly from your vector drawings. Highly integrated -- uses standard rectangles on a special layer to mark areas which should be sliced. SVG attributes provide file naming, etc.
Album Shaper is a graphical application used to create, maintain, and share photo albums using open formats like HTML and JPG. Two-layer albums can be created in a drag-n-drop interface which allows quick and easy arrangement and categorization of
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photos. A few simple image manipulations such as rotation and flipping are provided to help get photos presentable as quickly as possible. Photos, subalbums, and albums themselves can be labeled as needed and modified at a later time by saving and loading from a simple XML format. [Less]
Singapore is a sleek PHP image gallery that does not require a database. It is multilingual, multiuser, template-driven, and has cached autogenerated thumbnails (using GD or ImageMagick). Images and galleries may be manipulated using FTP or the Web-based admin. Its output is XHTML- and CSS-compatible.
Karbon is a vector-based drawing application. It allows artists to create complex drawings without losing image quality when zooming in on, or resizing the drawing. Graphic design ideas can be quickly and easily transformed into high quality
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illustrations with Karbon.
Karbon is useful for creating cartoons drawings or editing clip art which often needs to be resized to fit in a document or on a poster.
Karbon uses the standard Scallable Vector Graphics (SVG) for its file format. [Less]
Krita is a painting and image editing application. Krita contains both ease-of-use and fun features like guided painting (never before has it been so easy to airbrush a straight line!) and high-end features like support for 16 bit images, CMYK, L*a*b
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and even OpenEXR HDR images.
Krita supports many managed colorspaces, like rgb, grayscale, cmyk, lab, ycbcr and lms, in 8 and 16 bits per channel. Some colorspaces even support 32 bits per channel!
Krita can import RAW images in 8 and 16 bits per channel and load and save the usual image formats: tiff, png, jpeg.
Krita has image layers, group layers, adjustment layers and the innovative part layers: any KOffice document can be embedded as a layer in Krita.
Krita is scriptable in Python and Ruby. [Less]