Opensource Tools For Design

Gimp

Gimp is an image retouching and editing tool and is released under the GPLv3 license. Gimp is often cited as a replacement for Adobe Photoshop.



Operating system: Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, Solaris, AmigaOS 4.

Latest stable release: 2.8.2 (August 24, 2012)

Website: http://www.gimp.org/

Inkscape

Inkscape is a vector graphics editor. Its goal is to implement full support for the Scalable Vector Graphics.

Operating system: OS X, Unix-like, Windows.

Latest stable release: 0.48.4 (December 17, 2012)

Website: http://www.inkscape.org/

Krita

Krita is the digital painting and illustration software. Designed as a digital painting and illustration suite.

Operating system: Unix-like, Windows.

Latest stable release: 2.5.4 (November 21, 2012)

Website: http://krita.org/

Dia

Dia is a general-purpose diagramming software. Dia uses a controlled single document interface (CSDI) similar to GIMP and Inkscape.

Operating system: Unix-like, Windows, Mac OS.

Latest stable release: 0.97.2 (December 18, 2011)

Website: http://live.gnome.org/Dia/

Pinta

Pinta is a bitmap image drawing and editing program inspired by Paint.NET. Pinta is lighter and simpler compared to GIMP.

Operating system: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows.

Latest stable release: 1.4 (September 27, 2012)

Website: http://pinta-project.com/

Mypaint

MyPaint is a graphics application for digital painters, similar to Corel Painter.

Operating system: Cross-platform.

Latest stable release: 1.1.0 (January 4, 2013)

Website: http://mypaint.intilinux.com/

Scribus

Scribus is a desktop publishing application.It competes with leading commercial applications such as Adobe PageMaker, PagePlus, QuarkXPress or Adobe InDesign.

Opearting system: Windows, Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4/eComStation.

Latest stable release: 1.4.1 (April 30, 2012)

Website: http://scribus.net/

Synfig studio

Synfig Studio (also known as Synfig) 2D vector graphics and timeline-based computer animation program.

Opearting system: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows.

Latest stable release: 0.63.05 (April 9, 2012)

Website: http://synfig.org/

Calligra flow

Calligra Flow (formerly Kivio) is free diagramming software that is a part of Calligra Suite.

Opearting system: Unix-like, Windows.

Latest stable release: 2.5.4 (November 21, 2012)

Website: http://www.calligra.org/flow/

Darktable

Darktable is a photography workflow application and raw developer. Rather than being a raster graphics editor such as Adobe Photoshop or GIMP.

Opearting system: Linux,OS X,Solaris 11.

Latest stable release: 1.1.1 (December 11, 2012)

Website: http://www.darktable.org/

karbon

Karbon (formerly Karbon14, Kontour, and KIllustrator) is a vector graphics editor. It is a component of Calligra Suite.

Opearting system: Unix-like, Windows.

Latest stable release: 2.5.4 (November 21, 2012)

Website: http://www.calligra.org/karbon/

Xpaint

XPaint image editing program for bitmap images on the X Window environment. Its main goal is to be a lightweight and simple to use raster graphics editor.

Opearting system: Unix-like.

Latest stable release: 2.9.9 (February 12, 2012)

Website: http://sf-xpaint.sf.net/

Skencil

Skencil, formerly called Sketch, is a vector graphics editor.

Opearting system: Linux.

Latest stable release: 0.6.17 (June 19, 2005)

Website: http://www.skencil.org/

Openoffice draw

Apache OpenOffice Draw is a vector graphics editor and is part of the Apache OpenOffice office suite. It features "connectors" between shapes, which are available in a range of line styles and facilitate building drawings such as flowchart.

Opearting system: Microsoft Windows,Mac OS X,Linux,BSD,Unix.

Latest stable release: 3.4.1 (August 24, 2012)

Website: http://www.openoffice.org/product/draw.html

Mtpaint

MtPaint is a resource-efficient raster graphic drawing software to create pixel art , sprites , spirits animations.

Opearting system: GNU/Linux, Windows.

Latest stable release: 3.40 (December 30, 2011)

Website: http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/

Fontforge

FontForge is a full-featured font editor which supports all common font formats.

Opearting system: GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X.

Latest stable release: 20120731 (July 31, 2012)

Website: http://fontforge.org/

Image magick

ImageMagick is an suite for displaying, converting, and editing raster image files. It can read and write over 100 image file format

Opearting system: Cross-platform.

Latest stable release: 6.8.1-9 (January 05, 2013)

Website: http://www.imagemagick.org/

Graphics magick

GraphicsMagick is a fork of ImageMagick, emphasizing stability of both programming API and command-line options. It was branched off ImageMagick's version 5.5.2 in 2002 after irreconcilable differences emerged in the developers' group.

Opearting system: Cross-platform.

Latest stable release: 1.3.16 (June 23, 2012)

Website: http://www.graphicsmagick.org/

Blender

Blender is a 3D computer graphics software product used for creating animated films, visual effects, interactive 3D applications or video games.

Opearting system: FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows.

Latest stable release: 2.65a (December 20, 2012)

Website: http://www.blender.org/

Soya3D

Soya3D is a high-level Python module for creating 3D video games.

Opearting system: Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows.

Latest stable release: 0.14 (August 30, 2008)

Website: http://home.gna.org/oomadness/en/soya3d/

Xournal

Xournal is a notetaking application. It bears some similarity to Windows Journal, Jarnal and Gournal. It is designed to be used with either a stylus or a mouse.

Opearting system: Linux, Unix-like, Windows.

Latest stable release: 0.4.7 (July 4, 2012)

Website: http://xournal.sourceforge.net/

Pencil

Pencil is a 2d animation software. The application uses a bitmap/vector drawing interface to produce simple 2D graphics as well as animation.

Opearting system: Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD.

Latest stable release: 0.4.4 (April 4, 2008)

Website: http://www.pencil-animation.org/

3Dslicer

3D Slicer (Slicer) is a image analysis and scientific visualization. Slicer is used in a variety of medical applications.

Opearting system: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows.

Latest stable release: 4.0.1 (January 7, 2012)

Website: http://www.slicer.org/

OpenSCAD

OpenSCAD is a application used for creating solid 3D CAD objects. It is not an interactive modeler, but rather a 3D-compiler. OpenSCAD reads from a script and renders a 3D model from it.

Opearting system: Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Latest stable release: 2011.12 (December 2011)

Website: http://www.openscad.org/

Tux paint

Tux Paint is a bitmap graphics editor geared towards young children.

Opearting system: Cross-platform.

Latest stable release: 0.9.21 (December 27, 2010)

Website: http://www.tuxpaint.org/

Kolourpaint

KolourPaint is a raster graphics editor. similar to Microsoft's Paint application but has some additional features such as support for transparency.

Opearting system: Unix-like, Windows.

Latest stable release: 4.9.4 (December 4, 2012)

Website: http://kolourpaint.org/

Phatch

Phatch (PHoto & bATCH) is a raster graphics editor used to batch process digital graphics and photographs. Phatch can be used on the desktop as a GUI program or on the server as a console program.

Opearting system: Cross-platform.

Latest stable release: 0.1.6 (May 2009)

Website: http://photobatch.stani.be/

gpaint

GNU Paint, otherwise known as gpaint, is a raster graphics editor that is similar to Microsoft Paint.

Opearting system: Linux.

Latest stable release: 0.3.3 (September 10, 2007)

Website: http://www.gnu.org/software/gpaint/

Gimpshop

GIMPshop is a modification of the GIMP with the intent to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose was to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP.

Opearting system: Mac OS X, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Solaris.

Latest stable release: 2.8.0 (May 5, 2012)

Website: http://gimpshop.en.lo4d.com/

UFraw

UFRaw (which stands for Unidentified Flying Raw) is an application which can read and manipulate photographs in raw image formats, as created by many digital cameras.

Opearting system: Linux,Mac,Windows.

Latest stable release: 0.18 (February 20, 2011)

Website: http://ufraw.sourceforge.net/

Rawtherapee

RawTherapee is a raw image processing program. RawTherapee involves the concept of non-destructive editing, similar to that of some other raw conversion software.

Opearting system: Cross-platform.

Latest stable release: 4.0.9 (June 4, 2012)

Website: http://www.rawtherapee.com/

Rawstudio

Rawstudio is a stand-alone application, using the GTK+ UI toolkit, to read and manipulate images in raw image formats from digital cameras. It is designed for working rapidly with a large volume of images.

Opearting system: Linux,Mac.

Latest stable release: 2.0 (April 8, 2011)

Website: http://rawstudio.org/

Cinepaint

CinePaint is an computer program used for painting and retouching bitmap frames of films.

Opearting system: unix-like.

Latest stable release: 1.3 (April 9, 2012)

Website: http://www.cinepaint.org/

sk1

sK1 is a illustration program that can be used as a substitute for professional proprietary software like CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator.

Opearting system: Linux,FreeBSD.

Latest stable release: 0.9.0 (May 9, 2009)

Website: http://sk1project.org/

IPe

Ipe extensible drawing editor is a vector graphics editor for creating figures in PDF or EPS format. It can be used for making small figures for inclusion into LaTeX documents as well as making multi-page PDF presentations.

Opearting system: Cross-platform.

Latest stable release: 7.1.1 (September 6, 2011)

Website: http://ipe7.sourceforge.net/

xfig

Xfig is a vector graphics editor. In Xfig, figures may be drawn using objects such as circles, boxes, lines, spline curves, text, etc.

Opearting system: Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, FreeBSD, Solaris.

Latest stable release: 3.2.5d (July 23, 2010)

Website: http://www.xfig.org/

SVG edit

SVG-edit is intended for users who need to do quick edits to existing SVG images and do not want to use proprietary or open-source software that requires installation.

Opearting system: Cross-platform.

Latest stable release: 2.5 (June 17, 2010)

Website: http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/

GrafX2

GrafX2 is a bitmap graphics editor.

Opearting system: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Haiku, AmigaOS, MorphOS, Mac OS X, FreeBSD.

Latest stable release: 2.4 (October 1, 2012)

Website: http://code.google.com/p/grafx2/

Lyx

LyX is a document processor based on top of the LaTeX typesetting system. Unlike most word processors, which follow the WYSIWYG ("what you see is what you get") paradigm, LyX has a WYSIWYM ("what you see is what you mean").

Opearting system: Cross-platform.

Latest stable release: 2.0.5 (November 11, 2012)

Website: http://www.lyx.org/

Pixen

Pixen is a raster graphics editor. It is designed to create and edit pixel art and animations.

Opearting system: Mac os X.

Latest stable release: 3.5.7b3 (September 13, 2012)

Website: http://pixenapp.com/

Seashore

Seashore is an image editor, which was influenced by the GIMP.

Opearting system: Mac os X.

Latest stable release: 0.1.9 (April 5, 2007)

Website: http://seashore.sourceforge.net/

Greenshot

Greenshot is a screenshot and editor program for Microsoft Windows.

Opearting system: Windows.

Latest stable release: 1.0 (October 30, 2012)

Website: http://getgreenshot.org/

Tile studio

Tile Studio is a editor for graphics of tile-based games.

Opearting system: Windows.

Website: http://tilestudio.sourceforge.net/