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]

SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy)

SANE is an application programming interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, hand-held scanner, video- and still-cameras, frame-grabbers, etc.). The SANE API is public domain and its discussion and development is open to everybody. The ... [More] current source code is written for UNIX (including GNU/Linux) and is available under the GNU General Public License (the SANE API is available to proprietary applications and backends as well, however). More details about the license can be found on our license page. Ports to MacOS X, OS/2 and Microsoft Windows are either already done or in progress. [Less]

UFRaw

The UFRaw (Unidentified Flying Raw) is a tool for reading and manipulating raw images from digital cameras. It supports most of the existing raw formats (any format supported by DCRaw). UFRaw can be used on its own or as a Gimp plug-in.

Virtual Lighttable and Darkroom

Darktable is a plug-in based virtual light table and darkroom for photographers: it allows sorting a taken photo session, organize it via tags and develop raw images and enhance them using over a dozen of plug-ins like unsharp masking, lens correction, color zones, sophisticated desaturation, artistic vignetting, split toning and so on.

Krita

claimed by KDE

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 and even OpenEXR HDR images. Krita supports ... [More] 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]

dcraw

dcraw.c -- Dave Coffin's raw photo decoder This is a command-line ANSI C program to convert raw photos from any digital camera on any computer running any operating system. No license is required to download and use dcraw.c. However, to lawfully redistribute this code, you must either (a) ... [More] include full source code* for all executable files containing RESTRICTED functions, (b) remove all RESTRICTED functions, re-implement them, or copy them from an earlier, unrestricted Revision of dcraw.c, or (c) purchase a license from the author. The functions that process Foveon images have been RESTRICTED since Revision 1.237. All other code remains free for all uses. *If you have not modified dcraw.c in any way, a link to my homepage qualifies as "full source code". [Less]

Asido: PHP Image Processing Solution

Asido is a PHP (PHP4/PHP5) image processing solution, with pluggabledrivers(adapters) for virtually any environment. A lot of PHP developers (both on the PHP4 and PHP5 side) need image transformation operations for various tasks, the most mundane of which are the proportional resizing and ... [More] watermarking. Asido offers such solution: uniform API for image transformations that works with various environments (GD, ImageMagick, MagickWand, etc). Asido is open-source and its LGPL license allows you to place the class in your proprietary PHP projects. Asido offers the following functionality: resize images, watermark images, rotate imates, copy images, crop images, grayscale images, convert images, etc. [Less]

Gnome Scan

The Gnome Scan project aims to provide scanning features integrated throughout the Gnome desktop, similar to printing. The Gnome Scan project consists of a C/GObject library upon which are built standalone applications and plugins for various programs including The Gimp. The application and plugins are called flegita.

Phatch

Phatch is an user friendly, cross-platform Photo Batch Processor and Exif Renamer with a nice graphical user interface. Phatch handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies. Phatch can batch resize, rotate, apply shadows, perspective, rounded corners, … and do much ... [More] more actions in minutes instead of hours or days if you do it manually. [Less]

blueMarine

The blueMarine project is about an open source workflow for digital photography.