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Tux Paint
An award-winning drawing program for children of all ages
Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program originally created for children ages 3 to 12, but enjoyed by all! It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. You're presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative. Along with paintbrush, shapes and text, Tux Paint includes a "stamp" feature to add pre-drawn or photographic imagery to pictures, and a set of "magic tools" that provide filter effects (like blur, tint and waves) and interesting drawing tools (like train tracks, bubbles and grass). Tux Paint includes a collection of "starter" images, both coloring-book style and photo-realistic, and a large collections of stamps are available as a separate download. Additional content can be added by parents & teachers, or downloaded from 3rd parties. Tux Paint is available for Windows, macOS, Android, Linux, & Haiku operating systems, among others. -
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Dia Diagram Editor
Free drawing software for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
Dia Diagram Editor is free Open Source drawing software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Dia supports more than 30 different diagram types like flowcharts, network diagrams, database models. More than a thousand readymade objects help to draw professional diagrams. Dia can read and write a number of different raster and vector image formats. Software developers and database specialists can use Dia as a CASE tool to generate code skeletons from their drawings. Dia can be scripted and extended using Python. -
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Excalidraw
Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
Excalidraw, the virtual whiteboard app for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams, has come a long way. With the remote work becoming the status quo, Excalidraw was able to show its true potential and we’ve come to a point where over 100K people have used it just the last month! While it has been extremely successful as a free open source project, the biggest source of complaints nowadays is around adoption within companies: How do you share diagrams with your co-workers easily? Can your company depend on the service for live collaboration? Is your data secure? We’ve thought long and hard about how to make it happen in a volunteer-based open source model but haven’t found a great solution. So we decided to build a company around Excalidraw with the first product being Excalidraw+. With account-based access you can rest assured only the right people will have access to your data, while still retain the ability to share specific drawings with outside collaborators. -
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LaTeXDraw
Vector drawing program for LaTeX using PSTricks
LaTeXDraw is a graphical drawing editor for LaTeX. LaTeXDraw can be used to 1) generate PSTricks code; 2) directly create PDF or PS pictures. -
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TreeForm Syntax Tree Drawing Software
Syntax Tree Drawing Software (Linguistics)
TreeForm Syntax tree drawing software is a Linguistic Syntax/Semantics tree drawing editor. Designed for graphical n-ary tree drawing. Mac users can install the software through the new package, but must give authority through "System Preferences" > "Security & Privacy". Windows and Linux users can run the software through the JAR file directly. All users must have Java 8 or higher installed. https://java.com/en/download/ -
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Pencil
The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free tool
Pencil is built for the purpose of providing a free and open-source GUI prototyping tool that people can easily install and use to create mockups in popular desktop platforms. The latest stable version of Pencil is 3.1.0 which contains stability fixes and many new features. More details can befound in the releaste notes. Pencil provides various built-in shapes collection for drawing different types of user interface ranging from desktop to mobile platforms. Starting from 2.0.2, Pencil is shipped with Android and iOS UI stencils pre-installed. This makes it even easier to start protyping apps with a simple installation. Starting from 2.0.2 Pencil has even more shape collections included by default. The list of built-in collections now includes general-purpose shapes, flowchart elements, desktop/web UI shapes, Android and iOS GUI shapes. -
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Simple Draw
A canvas you can draw on with different colors
Enjoy the moment with our specially designed drawing app, draw something fun, and create your own artwork– all in a digital form. Simple Draw is the best drawing app for anyone who loves to draw. Just pick paint and draw. Paint and draw simple sketches for fun. With Simple Draw, you will not need any fancy or advanced tools or filters for your favorite doodle or sketch. Just use your creativity and freehand drawing to create the best sketches for your sketchbook. No matter what age or abilities you have, the best drawing app offers a fun drawing experience! Draw a sketch, use your favorite paint, and save your artwork in your own sketchbook. With Simple Draw, you can either draw new sketches from scratch or open some old artwork files from your sketchbook and just play around with new paints and colors. -
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TpX is a simple graphical editor for Windows for inclusion graphics into TeX files. It can also be used as a standalone editor for vector graphics.
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AutoREALM
Vector based drawing software designed for RPGs
AutoREALM is a free role-playing game mapping program originally made by Andrew Gryc. This program is an excellent mapping program that can design castles, caves, cities, dungeons and more. New developers are more than welcome! Previously, development were using Delphi language. Some attempts to rewrite it in other languages were done, but currently (since January 2012) there is an attempt or rewrite using those technologies: _ C++11 _ wxWidgets 2.9 (will be 3.0 when it will be released) _ openGL _ pluma framework (a fixed version located on bitbucket) The design of the actual C++ code-base primarily targets clean source code and high modularity of source code, to allow easy reuse of the code and fast learning for people who might join the effort. Current development is located on https://bitbucket.org/bmorel/autorealm . Howerver, older repositories are still here in case someone would like to consult them, and to allow easy access to algorithms they might contain. -
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Signature Pad
HTML5 canvas based smooth signature drawing
Signature Pad is a JavaScript library for drawing smooth signatures. It's HTML5 canvas based and uses variable width Bézier curve interpolation based on Smoother Signatures post by Square. It works in all modern desktop and mobile browsers and doesn't depend on any external libraries. Demo works in desktop and mobile browsers. You can check out its source code for some tips on how to handle window resize and high DPI screens. You can also find more about the latter in HTML5 Rocks tutorial. This library is provided as UMD (Universal Module Definition) and ES6 module. When you modify width or height of a canvas, it will be automatically cleared by the browser. SignaturePad doesn't know about it by itself, so you can call signaturePad.clear() to make sure that signaturePad.isEmpty() returns correct value in this case. -
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FidoCadJ
Simple and intuitive 2D vector drawing for electronics and not only.
A multiplatform vector drawing program with a complete library of electronic symbols. Schematics and drawings are stored in a very compact text format. There is no netlist concept behind the drawings (so no simulation, and this is a choice) but this allows a great graphical flexibility and ease of use, making FidoCadJ the perfect tool for exchange sketches in forum and newsgroup discussions with a few clicks. Drawings can be exported in several graphic formats, such as pdf. Follow the development live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/davbucci -
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boats
a race scenario drawing tool
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UCanCode Visio 2023
UCanCode Visio 2023, the best replace of Microsoft Visio
UCCVisio makes it easy to create various types of diagrams, including flowcharts, organizational charts, mind maps, network diagrams, floor plans, family tree diagrams, business model diagrams, flyers, certificates, and more. Charts - Charts and graphs are visual representations of information. They are useful for documenting facts, drawing plans and capturing ideas, as well as enhancing communication, learning and productivity. UCCVisio is a set of 100% free drawing software provided by UCanCode software company! -
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TeXCAD
A simple LaTeX {picture} drawing tool
TeXCAD is a program for drawing or retouching {picture}s in LaTeX. It extends the original {picture} capabilities, even without any obligatory LaTeX package, class or style sheet. Core of TeXCAD is totally portable. A MS Windows version is available. More information on... https://texcad.sourceforge.io/ Alire crate: https://alire.ada.dev/crates/texcad -
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A UNIX/X11 circuit drawing application with schematic capture. Features user-definable parts libraries and fully hierarchical SPICE netlist generation.
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This is a simple drawing application written in Java. It generates animated SWF Files, which redraws everything you have drawn with the mouse in the editor.
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Skencil is a vector drawing program. It's written almost completely in python for flexibilty with some modules written in C for speed.
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dktools - Dirk Krauses tools
Drawing, graphics conversion, software development, administration.
GUI and command line tools for advanced users and administrators: wxdkdraw - Minimalistic drawing application for use with LaTeX, wxd2lat - Convert wxdkdraw files to LaTeX, bitmap2pp - Convert PNG/JPEG/TIFF/NetPBM to (E)PS or PDF, fig2lat - Convert XFig files to LaTeX, htmlbook - publish HTML like a book, dkcpre - C debugging and tracing preprocessor, itadmin - manage your IT using a MySQL/MariaDB database, dk-fic - file integrity checker, dk-ls - list files, output column order is configurable, dk-cat, dk-sort, dk-lines - text tools for *x and Windows, dk-send, dk-recv - transmit data stream, dk-t2h, dk-t2l - text to HTML or LaTeX conversion. -
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An editor for creating sprite sheets from existing sheets or from frames. - Merge sprites - Cut sprites - Preview animations - Preview tiling on a map (Tiling Test tab) - Create flashing spritesheets from regular images This is NOT a drawing program for creating sheets or animations.
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Assisted dRawing toOl
ARO helps physically disabled students to create mathematical drawings
ARO has been developed to assist physically disabled or injured students who cannot create mathematical drawings on paper. It is intended to make maths up to Key Stage 4 more accessible. AQA has agreed to its use in a GCSE maths exam. Anyone who can use a computer with a mouse to access the internet should be able to use ARO. The processes required mimic those of on paper drawing as far as possible. Possible applications include: Graphs of straight lines and smooth curves Compass and ruler constructions Scatter graphs Stem and leaf displays Box plots Histograms Pie charts Simple diagrams. The structure of each drawing is built from individual components which can be placed on the drawing grid without great accuracy. Each can then be positioned exactly using onscreen buttons. The ruler and the protractor can be aligned with any straight line. Drawings can be created on imported background bitmaps. The author was a mathematics lecturer at Plymouth University. -
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DrawGlycan-SNFG
Renders glycans and glycopeptides with frag. info using SNFG format
DrawGlycan-SNFG is a simple and robust drawing tool for displaying glycans and glycopeptides from IUPAC-condensed format text inputs. It also supports the depiction of glycan and glycopeptide fragmentation. The program is available in the form of web (link below) and standalone GUI applications. Program source code is also provided.. The web and GUI apps do not require any additional software to run. To install the GUI version, simply download and run the installer for PC or Mac. To install in Linux, follow in-package instructions or visit the VirtualGlycome.org FAQ page. The source code can be edited and run using MATLAB2014b or later. How to Cite: DrawGlycan-SNFG: a robust tool to render glycans and glycopeptides with fragmentation information Kai Cheng; Yusen Zhou; Sriram Neelamegham Glycobiology (2017) 27 (3): 200-205 Source code also available at: https://github.com/neel-lab/DrawGlycan-SNFGv2 Abstract & Full Text: https://doi.org/10.1093/glycob/cww115 -
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An ANSI drawing tool supporting most formats (ANSI/ASCII), AVATAR, BINARY, PCBOARD. It does support TheDrawFonts file too. It will be a replacement for the good old dos based TheDraw and it is designed in the spirit of ACiD Draw
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PGRColorPicker
Easy and smart classic color picker
Color picker app with support of multi type format: HTML, RGB, HSV, HSL, and CMYK format. Alpha channel support with preview and bidirectional copy/paste and drag&drop mode. Also has auto-copy feature for intesity and percent color level with/without type declaration. Multi custom profile management.
Open Source Drawing Software Guide
Open source drawing software is a type ofprogram that allows users to create various types of images, designs and illustrations. Open source drawing programs are distributed under an open source license, meaning that the developer gives anyone who downloads the software full access to study, modify and redistribute it as they see fit. This makes open source drawing software particularly popular with those looking to learn programming skills or make modifications to their computer graphics software without having to pay for commercial licenses.
Open source drawing programs come in many different forms with some specializing in certain areas such as animation or 3D modeling while others are more general purpose and have features for creating web graphics, technical diagrams and even painting artwork. Some common open source drawing programs include GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), Inkscape (vector art editor) and Krita (painting application). All of these programs provide users with powerful tools for creating sophisticated designs from scratch or modifying existing ones. They also typically offer extensive tutorials and help documents so that beginners can quickly get up to speed on using them effectively.
One thing to keep in mind when using any open source drawing program is that it may be less developed than its commercial counterparts due to its reliance upon volunteers working on the project. Despite this, many users find the features provided by these free applications just as capable as their paid counterparts when used correctly. Additionally, since there is no cost associated with downloading this type of software, users can experiment freely until they find something suitable for their specific needs without worrying about additional costs or licensing fees.
Features of Open Source Drawing Software
- Vector Graphics: Open source drawing software typically provides vector graphics capabilities, which allow users to create illustrations, diagrams, and other drawings which are composed of lines and shapes. These graphics can be resized with no loss of clarity or detail, making them ideal for web-based design work.
- Image Editing: Many open source drawing programs offer a variety of image editing features including cropping, rotating, brightness/contrast adjustment, sharpening and blur effects. They also offer support for manipulating the color balance and saturation levels within an image.
- Layer Support: Layer support allows users to construct complex images by separating different elements into individual layers that can be manipulated independently from one another. This is especially helpful when creating complex designs with multiple components.
- Brushes & Pencils: Open source drawing programs feature digital brushes and pencil tools such as airbrushes and chalk that allow users to achieve a range of textural effects in their artwork.
- Text Tools: Text tools enable users to add words or phrases to their drawings by selecting fonts, font sizes and formatting options like bolding and italicizing within the software interface.
- Shapes & Symbols: A wide variety of pre-made shapes such as triangles, circles and squares are available in many open source drawing programs along with symbols like arrows that can help streamline the design process.
Different Types of Open Source Drawing Software
- Vector Graphics Editors: These programs allow users to create complex graphics using points, lines, and curves. They are especially useful for creating logos, illustrations, diagrams, and other visual elements that must be resized without any loss of quality.
- Raster Graphics Editors: This type of software is used to create digital images with pixels. It's often used for photo-editing tasks like fixing color balance or removing red-eye effect. It can also be used for digital painting and drawing.
- Animation Software: This type of open source software allows users to create animated videos or GIFs from scratch or edit existing animations. Most animation software supports both vector and raster graphical formats for greater flexibility in creation process.
- 3D Modeling Software: This type of open source software makes it possible to create three-dimensional objects from polygons, edges and surfaces that are combined into a unified shape. It's commonly used for architectural visualization projects as well as video game design.
- CAD Software: Computer-aided design (CAD) software enables engineers and designers to quickly draft drawings and drawings in 2D/3D environments with precision accuracy. Many open source packages offer advanced features such as photorealistic rendering, support for complicated assemblies, motion simulation capabilities etc., making them suitable even for professional applications in industrial settings
Open Source Drawing Software Advantages
- Cost Savings: Most open source drawing software is free, or available at a low cost. This saves money on expensive commercial products, which can help reduce overhead costs for businesses and individuals.
- No Restrictions: Open source programs often have fewer restrictions than their proprietary counterparts. For instance, users may be able to modify the program to suit their individual needs more easily than with other types of software.
- Easy Accessibility: With open source drawing software there is usually no need for extensive installation procedures or special hardware; users simply download the program from a website and begin using it immediately.
- Platform Support: Open source programs typically support multiple platforms, so designers can work on different versions without having to purchase new versions of the same program for each system they use.
- Customization Options: Many open source programs offer greater flexibility in terms of customization options than conventional commercial software packages do. This allows designers to customize their workflow according to their own preferences and needs more easily.
- Increased Collaboration Capabilities: Working with open source drawing software enables improved collaboration among members tasked with complex design projects, as everyone will have access to the same version of the program and any changes made by one user are visible to all participants at once.
Who Uses Open Source Drawing Software?
- Graphic Designers: People who specialize in creating visuals that communicate ideas and messages to the intended audience.
- Web Developers: People who use the software to create website design elements such as banners, logos, icons, and other visual elements.
- Artists: People who use the software to create drawings, paintings and illustrations either for commercial or personal art projects.
- Scientists & Researchers: Individuals or teams of scientists who use open source drawing programs to illustrate scientific concepts and theories in a graphical form.
- Educators: Students or teachers who require an easy way to present visual data in a classroom setting.
- Hobbyists & Hobby Groups: Amateur graphic designers or members of hobby groups that want to practice their skills without having to pay for expensive software licenses.
- Video Gamers & Animators: People involved with video game development or animation projects can benefit from using open source drawing software as it offers more freedom when creating unique visuals than closed source platforms may provide.
- Product Prototypers & Makers: Companies and individuals involved with designing 3D models used for prototyping products often make extensive use of open source drawing software for their needs.
How Much Does Open Source Drawing Software Cost?
Open source drawing software is completely free to download and use. Many open source programs offer a vast array of features that rival those of paid software, making it a great choice for both amateur and professional illustrators. Open source programs also provide an excellent platform for collaboration, allowing users to work together on projects from any location around the world. Best of all, open source drawing software is constantly updated and improved by its community of developers, providing users with bug fixes and additional features often at no cost.
What Software Can Integrate With Open Source Drawing Software?
Open source drawing software can integrate with a variety of types of software, including desktop publishing programs, image manipulation applications, animation tools, 3D modeling programs and CAD systems. Some programs are designed to open images created in other graphic design applications while others enable users to collaborate more easily by exchanging drawings in different formats. Additionally, certain types of accounting software can also be used with open source drawing software in order to track expenses related to graphics projects or the purchase of digital assets such as fonts and clip art.
What Are the Trends Relating to Open Source Drawing Software?
- Increased Availability: Open source drawing software is becoming increasingly available, allowing users to access a wide range of tools and features without having to pay expensive license fees.
- Easier Access: With open source software, users can quickly and easily download tools, tweak settings, and customize them to their own unique needs without having to purchase a separate license or even understand complex coding languages.
- Wider Range of Options: Open source drawing software provides a much wider range of options than closed-source applications, allowing users to experiment with different types of artwork and designs.
- More Affordable: By providing free downloads and updates, open source drawing software is often much more affordable than proprietary solutions.
- Enhanced Security: Many open source drawing programs come with additional security features that help protect users from malicious attacks.
- Cross-Platform Compatibility: Many open source drawing programs are designed to be compatible with multiple operating systems, making it easier for users to access features on different devices.
- Community Support: The open source community provides strong support for its members, offering helpful advice and troubleshooting tips that can make the process of creating artwork easier and more enjoyable.
How To Get Started With Open Source Drawing Software
Getting started with open source drawing software is easy. First, you need to identify the software you're interested in. Be sure to do your research, as there are many options available. Once you’ve chosen a program, the next step is to download or install it onto your computer. Many of these programs can be found online, and will provide detailed installation instructions which should be followed closely.
Once your software has been installed, it's time to start getting familiar with how it works. If necessary, find tutorials online so you can learn the basics or take an online class that specifically focuses on drawing with open source software. It may also help to read user manuals so that you can get a better understanding of all of its features and capabilities.
Once you have a good grasp on how the software works then you're ready to create something. Start by making quick sketches on small canvas sizes if necessary; this will give you time to become comfortable working within the program before taking on larger projects. Experiment with different tools and effects and don't worry about getting everything perfect---you'll naturally improve as your practice continues.
Finally remember that most open source software communities are very welcoming and supportive of newcomers---if you ever have any questions or need help figuring something out just reach out for assistance. With some practice and patience anyone can become a master at using open source drawing software.