42 of the Best Free Linux Graphics Software
Linux is a very strong platform for budding artists,
photographers, animators, and designers. With inexpensive hardware,
free
software, and a modicum of talent and inspiration, anyone can create
professional-looking computer graphics.
There is a huge range of
Open Source software available to create, modify and
convert 2D and 3D computer graphics. To provide an insight into the
software that is available, we have compiled a list of 42 high quality
Linux graphics applications.
The vast majority of the software featured here sport an
attractive graphical front-end, although we have not neglected console
based applications.
Now, let's explore the 42 graphics applications at hand.
For
each
title we have compiled its own portal page, providing a screenshot of
the software in action, a full description with an
in-depth analysis of
its features, together with links to relevant resources and reviews.
| 3D Modeling and Rendering |
| Art
of Illusion |
3D-modeler, renderer and raytracer |
| Blender |
Very
fast and versatile 3D modeler/renderer |
| K-3D |
3D modeling and animation system |
| Pixie |
Photorealistic
raytracing renderer for generating photorealistic
images |
| POV-Ray |
Full-featured ray tracer |
| Radiance |
Suite
of tools for performing lighting simulation |
| Sunflow |
Rendering system for photo-realistic image synthesis |
| YafRay |
Powerful
raytracer |
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| Raster Graphics Editor |
| CinePaint |
Painting, manipulation and image processing |
| GIMP |
GNU
Image Manipulation Program |
| Gimpshop |
Fork of GIMP mimicing Adobe Photoshop's interface |
| Krita |
Edit
and paint images |
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| Vector Graphics Editor |
| Inkscape |
Vector-based drawing program |
| OpenOffice.org
Draw |
Produces
simple diagrams, flowcharts and 3-D artwork |
| Xara
Xtreme |
Heavyweight vector graphics, illustration and DTP
program |
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| Animation |
| Pencil |
Create traditional hand-drawn animation
using bitmap and vector graphics |
| Ktoon |
Produce
professional cartoons |
| Synfig |
Create and edit 2D animations and compositions |
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| Drawing |
| ArgoUML |
UML modelling tool |
| Dia |
Diagram
editor |
| Kivio |
Flowcharting program for the KDE Office Suite |
| Skencil |
Interactive
vector drawing program |
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| Photo Management |
| blueMarine |
Digital photo manipulation software |
| F-Spot |
Personal
photo management application |
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| Viewers |
| Cornice |
Designed to be a free replacement of ACDSee |
| gThumb |
Advanced
image viewer and browser |
| Gwenview |
Simple image viewer for KDE 4 |
| Eye
of Gnome |
Fast
and functional image viewer |
| Imgv |
Powerful image viewer |
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| Camera |
| Cheese |
Take pictures and videos from your webcam |
| digiKam |
Digital
photo management application for KDE |
| gphoto2 |
Set of digital camera software applications |
| Rawstudio |
Raw-image
converter and manipulation |
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| Scanning |
| Kooka |
Scanner program for KDE |
| Tesseract |
Optical
Character Recognition Engine |
| XSane |
Featureful graphical frontend for SANE |
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| CAD |
| QCad |
Professional CAD System |
| BRL-CAD |
Constructive
Solid Geometry (CSG) solid modeling system |
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| Fractals |
Gnofract
4D
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GNOME based fractal generator |
| XaoS |
Real-time
interactive fractal zoomer |
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| Utilities |
| Agave |
Colorscheme designer for the GNOME desktop |
| ImageMagick |
Software
suite to create, edit, and compose
bitmap images
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Last Updated Saturday, February 25 2012 @ 02:26 AM EST
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