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Painting tools

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel PHOTO-PAINT

April 22, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Corel PHOTO-PAINT is a raster graphics editor, or photo editing software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

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PDF

plakativ stretches PDF or raster image across multiple pages

April 20, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Graphics, GUI

plakativ is software to stretch a PDF document or raster image across multiple pages. It’s written in Python.

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Screen Capture

9 Best Free Linux Screen Capture GUI Tools

April 20, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

We recommend the best free and open source GUI software for taking screenshots.

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Small Image Tools

imagineer offers image processing and conversion

April 19, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

sic (sic image cli) is a command-line too to convert images and perform image operations.

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Photo collection

Improve ImgSLI is an image comparison tool

April 18, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

Improve ImgSLI is a tool designed for comparing two images side-by-side.

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Screen Capture

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel Capture

April 17, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Corel Capture is software which captures and saves images of your computer screen with one click, including the entire screen and windows.

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Screen Capture

Perl Screenshot Tool

April 16, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI, Productivity

Perl Screenshot Tool is a screenshot utility for Linux that works best on X11. It also supports Gnome Wayland through the gnome-screenshot backend.

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Quick Lookup is a dictionary application powered by Wiktionary

April 16, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Utilities

Quick Lookup is a simple GTK dictionary application powered by Wiktionary (only the English version is supported).

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Annotation tool

swappy is a Wayland native snapshot editing tool

April 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

swappy is a Wayland native snapshot and editor tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS.

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Screen Capture

ImageMagick – create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap images

April 14, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. All manipulations can be achieved through shell commands.

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Screen Capture

slop queries for a selection from the user and prints the region to stdout

April 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

slop (Select Operation) is an application that queries for a selection from the user and prints the region to stdout.

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Screen Capture

grim – screenshot utility for Wayland

April 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

grim is a command-line utility to take screenshots of Wayland desktops. It currently needs support for the screencopy protocol to work.

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CAD

XTrackCAD is a CAD program for designing model railroad layouts

April 9, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, GUI

XTrackCAD is a CAD (computer-aided design) program for designing Model Railroad layouts.

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CAD

Design is 2D CAD software for GNOME

April 6, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics

Design is a 2D computer aided design application (CAD), created to meet the needs of makers and designers, hobbyists and professionals

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Screen Capture

shotman is a screenshot GUI for Wayland

April 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics

shotman is billed as uncompromising screenshot GUI for Wayland compositors. It is designed for interactive usage.

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Screen Capture

shotgun is a minimal screenshot utility for X11

April 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Productivity

shotgun is a minimal screenshot utility for X11 which exports PNG screenshots to file or stdout.

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Annotation tool

Satty is a modern screenshot annotation tool

April 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, GUI

Satty is a screenshot annotation tool inspired by Swappy and Flameshot.

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Screen Capture

maim takes screenshots of your desktop

April 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Graphics, Productivity

maim (Make Image) is a utility that takes screenshots of your desktop.

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OCR-Systems

10 Best Free and Open Source OCR Tools

April 1, 2025 Steve Emms Documents, Graphics, Roundup, Utilities

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into searchable, editable documents.

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Machine Learning

Machine Learning in Linux: Stability Matrix – Package Manager for Stable Diffusion

March 19, 2025 Steve Emms Graphics, Reviews, Scientific

Stability Matrix is a multi-platform package manager and inference UI for AI image generation.

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