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Category: Graphics

Screen Capture

xfce4-screenshooter – take screenshots

August 31, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

xfce4-screenshooter is an application for taking screenshots.

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Cherrypick – modern screen color picker

August 31, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Cherrypick is a modern GTK4 color picker for sampling screen colours, previewing clipboard values, and copying RGB, HEX, HSL and CMYK codes.

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Art

oh-my-logo – create colourful ASCII art logos

August 30, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

oh-my-logo is a command-line tool and software library for creating colourful ASCII art logos.

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3D Illustration

Laigter – generate lighting maps for 2D game artwork

August 30, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Laigter generates normal, parallax, specular and occlusion maps from 2D artwork, with real-time lighting previews, presets and batchable CLI use.

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3d render

Gaffer – node-based VFX look development and production application

August 30, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Gaffer is a node-based VFX application for look development, lighting, scene assembly, rendering, compositing and production automation.

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Art

Bit – terminal-based ANSI logo designer

August 30, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

Bit is a terminal-based ANSI logo designer and bitmap-font utility for creating stylised text.

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3D Rendering

Ucupaint – layer-based texture painting for Blender

August 29, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Ucupaint brings layer-based texture painting, masks, baking, UDIM support and material-channel management to Blender’s Eevee and Cycles.

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Planet Earth

8 Best Free and Open Source Virtual Globes

August 29, 2026 Steve Emms Education, Graphics, Roundup, Scientific

There are a number of free and open source applications for Linux which are credible alternatives to Google Earth.

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3D Illustration

ArmorPaint – GPU-accelerated 3D texture painting application

August 29, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

ArmorPaint is a GPU-accelerated 3D texture painting application with PBR materials, layers, masks, baking tools and node-based workflows.

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Art

Ansizalizer – terminal UI to convert images to ANSI art

August 29, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, TUI

Ansizalizer provides a built-in file browser and a real-time preview of the rendered output.

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3d render

Material Maker – procedural texture authoring and 3D painting tool

August 29, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Material Maker is a node-based procedural texture authoring and 3D painting tool with PBR previews, reusable graphs and flexible exports.

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Image Processing

17 Best Free and Open Source Image Processing Libraries

August 13, 2026 Eilidih Parris Graphics, Roundup

In this article we recommend the finest image processing libraries. All free and open source goodness.

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Manage creative assets

Kornia – differentiable computer vision library

August 9, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics

Kornia is a differentiable computer vision library built on PyTorch. It provides image-processing and geometric-vision operations.

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HDR

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux HDR Imaging Software

August 2, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

High dynamic range imaging (HDR) is an important technology for photographers. We pick the best HDR software for Linux.

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Magical Potions

11 Meritorious Free and Open Source Modelers

August 1, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

This article identifies 11 modelers that stand out from the others. We only feature free and open source software here.

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HDR

SimpleImageViewer – high-performance image viewer

July 30, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

SimpleImageViewer is a high-performance image viewer designed for rapidly browsing large photo and image collections.

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Image Processing

CImg – lightweight C++ toolkit

July 29, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Programming

CImg is a lightweight C++ toolkit for developing image-processing applications.

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astronaut

13 Best Free and Open Source Animation Tools

July 29, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup

There is a huge range of open source software available to create, modify and convert 2D and 3D computer graphics. In the field of animation, we make these recommendations.

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Manage creative assets

OpenImageIO – image processing

July 29, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics

OpenImageIO is a library and collection of utilities for reading, writing and processing image files.

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Flickr

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux Flickr Tools

July 28, 2026 Steve Emms Graphics, Internet, Roundup

This article focuses on selecting the best small Linux utilities that support Flickr integration. These tools help users to edit, tag, download and upload images to and from a Linux computer and the Flickr service.

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