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Category: Graphics

3D Rendering

Mitsuba – research-oriented rendering system

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Mitsuba is an extensible rendering framework written in portable C++. It implements unbiased as well as biased techniques.

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3D Rendering

Cycles – physically based production renderer

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Cycles is an physically based production renderer developed by the Blender project. This is free and open source software.

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3D Rendering

appleseed – physically-based global illumination rendering engine

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

appleseed is a modern, open source, physically-based renderer developed by the VFX and Jupiter Jazz. Ultimately targeted at production rendering.

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Images

Crunch – lossy PNG image file optimization

October 28, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Reviews

Crunch is a command line executable that performs lossy optimization of one or more PNG image files with pngquant and zopflipng.

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RAW Tools

GTKRawGallery – workflow oriented photo retouching software

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

GTKRawGallery is an open source workflow oriented photo retouching software with all necessary tools to quickly process camera raw images.

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RAW Tools

Filmulator – film-inspired RAW editor and library manager

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Filmulator is a RAW photo editor and library manager using a film-development-inspired processing model with streamlined controls.

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RAW Tools

LightZone – non-destructive digital darkroom and RAW editor

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

LightZone is a non-destructive digital darkroom for RAW photography with tool stacks, styles, batch processing and zone-based editing.

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RAW Tools

Photivo – photo processor

October 27, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Photivo is a multi platform open source photo processor for RAW and bitmap images with 16 bit precision. It’s free and open source software.

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Compression

Image Optimizer – simple lossless image optimizer

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Image Optimizer is a simple program that provides lossless compression.

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Compression

Trimage – cross-platform tool for losslessly optimizing PNG and JPG files

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Trimage is an open source cross-platform graphical user interface and command-line interface to optimize image files via optipng, advpng, pngcrush.

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Compression

Curtail – compress your images

October 26, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Curtail (previously ImCompressor) is an image compressor, supporting PNG, JPEG and WEBP file types.

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Magical Potions

MB-Lab – Blender addon that creates humanoid characters

October 24, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

MB-Lab is a character creation tool for Blender 2.80, based on ManuelBastioniLAB. Free and open source software. Written in Python.

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Slate – pixel art and seamless tileset editor

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Slate is a Qt-based pixel art editor for game sprites and seamless tilesets, offering editable layers and sprite-sheet animation previews.

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rx – modern and minimalist pixel editor

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

rx is a minimalist pixel editor with modal commands, synchronous brushes, sprite animation, pixel-perfect drawing and GIF export.

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mtPaint – painting program to create pixel art and manipulate digital photos

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

mtPaint is a simple GTK+1/2/3 painting program designed for creating icons and pixel based artwork.

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PikoPixel – lightweight pixel art editor for GNUstep

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

PikoPixel offers layered pixel drawing with unlimited undo, custom backgrounds, popup palettes, upscaled export and gamma-correct blending.

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Piskel – animated sprites and pixel art

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Piskel provides an accessible pixel art editor with layers, animation frames, onion skinning, live previews and GIF or sprite-sheet export.

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csprite – lightweight pixel art editor

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

csprite is a lightweight pixel art editor with palette controls, precise drawing and a simple interface for making small sprites.

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Pixelorama – pixel art and animation editor

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Pixelorama is a pixel art and sprite animation editor with tilemaps, palettes, visual effects, layers and flexible export tools.

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HDR

Radiance – validated lighting simulation tool

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Radiance is a suite of tools for performing lighting simulation. The Radiance suite includes over 50 tools, including software to manipulate scene data.

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