Projects tagged ‘art’

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 ... [More] 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 ... [More] 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]

KOffice is a free, integrated office suite for KDE, the K Desktop Environment. KOffice applications uses OpenDocument as their native file format when possible. The suite is released separately from KDE. The KOffice suite includes the following ... [More] applications: - KWord - A frame-based word processor - KSpread - A powerful spreadsheet application - KPresenter - A full-featured presentation program - Kexi - An environment for creating databases and applications - Kivio - A Visio®-style flowcharting application - Karbon14 - A vector drawing application - Krita - A layered pixel image manipulation application - KPlato - An integrated project management and planning tool - KChart - A graph and chart drawing tool - KFormula - A formula editor - Kugar - A tool for generating reports [Less]

Rosegarden is an audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor, and general-purpose music composition and editing environment. It is an easy-to-learn, attractive application that runs on Linux. It is ideal for composers, musicians, music students, and small studio or home recording environments.

Hugin is a toolkit for stitching photographs and assembling panoramas, together with an easy to use graphical front end.

LilyPond is a music typesetter. It produces beautiful sheet music using a description file as input. LilyPond is part of the GNU Project.

FontForge is an outline font editor that lets you create your own Postscript, TrueType, OpenType, CID-keyed, multi-master, CFF, SVG, and bitmap (BDF) fonts, or edit existing ones. It also lets you convert one format to another, and has support for many Macintosh font formats.

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 ... [More] 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]

Jokosher is a simple yet powerful multi-track studio. With it you can create and record music, podcasts and more, all from an integrated simple environment.

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.

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 ... [More] 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]

While the Internet's design is widely understood to be open and distributed, control over how users interact online has given us largely centralized and closed systems. ShiftSpace is an Open Source platform that attempts to subvert this trend by ... [More] providing a new public space on the web. By pressing the [Shift] + [Space] keys, a ShiftSpace user can invoke a new meta layer above any web page to browse and create additional interpretations, contextualizations and interventions using various authoring tools. [Less]

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It ... [More] is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain. [Less]

This is an interactive generative art application to evolve images/textures/patterns/animations through an iterative process of random mutation and user-selection driven evolution. This process is also often referred to as "evolutionary art" or ... [More] "genetic art". If you like lava lamps, and still think the Mandelbrot set is cool, this could be the software for you. [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 ... [More] 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]

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 ... [More] 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]

The RubySVG is a Ruby module based on the REXML to help the creation and handle of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) images. It provide full DOM support and cool graphical methods to made easy draw edition with code.

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 ... [More] * Cairo-based engine * Color managment * Universal CDR importer (7-X3 versions) * Modern Ttk based (former Tile widgets) user interface [Less]

Dada Mail is an intuitive, web-based e-mail list management system, which runs on any hosting account that can execute custom CGI scripts. Dada Mail is also a conceptual art project. [More Information] Dada Mail handles double opt-in/opt-out ... [More] subscriptions, sending complex announce-only and/or discussion mailing list messages, archiving/viewing/searching/resending/syndicating (rss, atom) sent messages and doing all this and more with style. Dada Mail produces XHTML valid web content and sticks to best practices when creating email messages. Write Once: Distribute Everywhere. Dada Mail is free software that you're able to use, modify and enhance under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Dada Mail is written in Perl. [Less]

Common Media Projects (CMP) is a project with the aim of collaboratively creating thematic media packages under free licenses, so game developers in need can use them.

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 ... [More] 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]

Open source patcher for multimedia projects: glue all this midi, DMX, neural networks, opengl stuff into a fast C++ core with Lua scriptable objects.

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 ... [More] 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]

Original Inkscape artwork from Eric Burke, creator of It's Just a Bunch of Stuff That Happens All files are freely available under the Creative Commons license. Feel free to download, modify, and use these files however you please. Just provide a link back to my blog: http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/

Image (C) www.ladyada.net See the last activity on the project: read the development news; watch the recent changes on SVN; see the last messages on discussion group. IntroductionBicycle LED POV is an electronic LED bar to attach on bicycle ... [More] wheels. When riding the bicycle, the LED bar will draw with light, text messages and image animations. Custom text messages and animations will be drawn on a PC software and downloaded using an USB cable. Goals of the projectcreate a Free/Open hardware, firmware and software LED POV for bicycle wheels; easy to use for non electronics technician people; find some company that wants to sell PCBs, kits or final assembled product; use only Free Software tools as possible, like CAD software for PCB design, C compiler for MCU firmware, etc; open to improvements and new ideas from community. Your participationBecause hacking is fun and projects are like life, always evolving, If you have any ideas, If you think you can improve the project, If you want to say something, please leave a message on the discussion group. This project is a work in progress, It's an effort to improve actual bicycle LED POVs as the SpokePOV from Ladyada. There is room for a lot of improvements as the project involves different areas as: mechanics; electronics; software; visual LED art; art animation. DescriptionBicycle LED POV is an electronic LED bar to attach on bicycle wheels. A magnet is also attached on a fixed part of the bicycle (as example, the fork), so the hall effect sensor mounted on the Bicycle LED POV can detect each full rotation of the wheel. Bicycle LED POV consist of mainly three different parts: Hardware; Software and Firmware. Hardware HaRdware consist of an electronics printed circuit board with LEDs and a few components as a microcontroller unit, a memory to hold the text messages and image animations, an USB connector and 2 NiMh cells. See more information on HaRdware page >> FirmwareFiRmware is the software that will be inside the MCU, it will configure the hardware system to work as needed. See more information on FiRmware page >> SoftwareSoFtware is a PC Free Software program to send text messages and image animations to the HaRdware. See more information on SoFtware page >> [Less]

It's Context Free, but written in JS and Canvas. For a demo, see a demo here and here. It only works in Firefox 3, and Safari nightlys.

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 ... [More] 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]

Built with the powerful Django Web framework, Objets d'Art provides an easily customizable website and business software package to run a site focused on selling distributable art - that is, things such as prints, licenses for stock photos, or its ... [More] original intended inventory of sheet music. The web application connects artists and consumers to facilitate the commission process as well as providing artists with a way to market and sell their works. [Less]

Inspired by NodeBox, LodeBox lets you will let you create static and animated visuals using OpenGL and the Ruby language. LodeBox is currently in the preliminary stages of development ... for now you might want to have a look at the Subversion repository.