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Category: Graphics

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 editor

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Slate was built for pixel art. It aims to simplify the creation of sprites and tilesets by offering a user-friendly, customisable interface.

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rx – modern and minimalist pixel editor

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

rx is a modern and minimalist pixel editor. This is free and open source software written in the Rust programming language.

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

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

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

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PikoPixel – draw and edit pixel art images

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

PikoPixel is software for drawing and editing pixel art images. It runs under Linux using the GNUstep framework.

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Piskel – animated sprites and pixel art

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Piskel is an easy-to-use sprite editor. It can be used to create game sprites, animations, pixel-art, and more.

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csprite – tiny pixel art tool

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

csprite is a tiny pixel art tool written in C++ and C. It’s a fork of Sixel.

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Pixelorama – pixel art editor

October 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Pixelorama is a pixel art editor. It is created with the Godot Engine. This is free and open source software.

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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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HDR

tev – high dynamic range image comparison tool

October 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

tev is an open source high dynamic range (HDR) image comparison tool for graphics people.

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