Projects

GIMP

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 quality photo retouching program, an online batch ... [More] 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]

Calligra Suite

claimed by KDE

Calligra Suite is a free, integrated graphic art, work & management applications suite, made with Qt & KDE libraries, running on Linux Desktops, Windows, OS X and mobile phones. It includes: Words – for word processing Sheets – for spreadsheeting Stage – for doing presentations ... [More] Kexi – for creating databases and applications Flow – for flowcharting and diagramming Karbon – for vector drawing Krita – for layered pixel image manipulation and painting Plan – for integrated project management and planning Braindump – for dumping and organizing all kind of content Additionally: calligraconverter – commandline tool for conversion between ODF and others formats, e.g. MS ones Plugin for KDE filesystem thumbnailing Plugin for the document viewer Okular to support ODP files [Less]

grafx2

GrafX2 is a bitmap paint program that allows you to draw in more than 60 video resolutions including most of the standard Amiga resolutions : 320x200, 320x256, 320x512, 640x256, 640x512, etc. It was written to run under DOS, but the code you'll find here was modified to use SDL and modern ... [More] operating systems. This program is dedicated to everybody who knows what a single pixel is. Its layout is not very different from the famous Deluxe Paint or Brilliance, so it will be quite easy to handle it if you know at least one of these programs. If you aren't used to the art of drawing with up to 256 colors, it will be a little more difficult for you, but you should give it a try (or more, because most of the power of this program won't show up on the first try). [Less]

MyPaint

A fast and easy open-source graphics application for digital painters. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only when you need it.

Karbon

claimed by KDE

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 illustrations with Karbon. Karbon is useful for ... [More] 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]