Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Graphic Design Software
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Graphic Design Software for Desktop Operating Systems
Browse free open source Graphic Design software and projects for Desktop Operating Systems below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source Graphic Design software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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exiftool
Read, write and edit metadata
Perl library and command-line application for reading, writing and editing meta information (EXIF, IPTC, XMP, and more) in a wide variety of file formats (JPEG, TIFF, PNG, PDF, RAW, and more). -
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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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gPhoto is a program and library framework that lets users download pictures from their digital cameras. The libgphoto2 library gives you access to hundreds of models of digital cameras on several platforms. GIT repo and Issue tracker lives at https://github.com/gphoto/ these days.
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GraphicsMagick
Swiss army knife of image processing
GraphicsMagick provides a set of commandline tools and programming APIs for manipulating, editing, and converting raster and vector images. It is derived from ImageMagick, with the objective of providing better stability and performance than ImageMagick while retaining the original MIT/X11 license. -
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Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality 2D animation with fewer people and resources.
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FREE!ship is a surface modeling program for designing ships yachts and boats. Subdivision surfaces are used rather than NURBS to give the designer the freedom to design ANY desired hullshape. Unfold surfaces, panel based hydrostatics, various exp formats
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FastPhotoTagger
A fast way to set photo metadata tags
FastPhotoTagger tries to be the fastest way to set the metadata in your photos. Add, change, delete, and search the metadata fields of your choice. FastPhotoTagger excels when you have lots of files and lots of metadata. With FastPhotoTagger, you can - Set multiple images to have the same tags - Set individual images to have unique tags - Display all the metadata in an image - Compare and edit all the metadata in several images - Work with your favorite metadata fields: EXIF, XMP, IPTC, etc. - Define hierarchical keywords - View images and slideshows that display tags as captions - Create and search a metadata database FastPhotoTagger has versions for PC and Android. FastPhotoTagger uses ExifTool to read & write metadata, HyperSQL to manage its database, dcraw to display DNG & RAW, and ImageMagick to display TIFF. WEBP, & HEIC. -
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DD Thought Tickler is a thinking process recorder. It is a kind of vector graphics editor and idea processor. It has new function not ever known. It records your thinking process, by memorizing every steps that you've operated on this tool.
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IDTE- ID3 Tag Editor
A Smarter Way to Tag FLAC, Vorbis, Lyrics, WMA, WavPack, and ID3 Tags
IDTE is a full-featured tag editor for Windows that supports tagging of FLAC, APE, ID3v1.x/2.x, WMA, Lyrics, and Vorbis metadata in audio files. It also includes a powerful audio player with support for 40+ lossy and lossless formats, including FLAC, ALAC, OGG, APE, MP3, and more. IDTE offers a wide range of advanced features: • Rename files using tag information • Export and manage tag data • Create and manage playlists • Search online for missing or incomplete tags • Fetch lyrics and album artwork • Full CUE sheet support • Batch processing and multi-file editing • SFX, visualizations, and more A new, minimalistic version of IDTE is also available for download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/idte ⚠️ Important Notice Tagging MP4 video files and WAV audio files using IDTE is not recommended. WAV tag support is ambiguous and inconsistently handled across players (see: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/WAV). -
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CinePaint
Deep paint and stop-motion animation software
CinePaint 1.4.4 Windows version released 2021/5/6. Linux and MacOS versions coming. CinePaint is a deep paint image retouching tool that supports higher color fidelity than ordinary painting tools. CinePaint opens high fidelity image file formats such as DPX, 16-bit TIFF, and OpenEXR, and conventional formats like JPEG and PNG. -- Robin Rowe CinePaint Project Manager Beverly Hills, California robin.rowe@cinepaint.org imdb.me/robinrowe 323-535-0952 -
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XPaint is a simple paint program for X, suitable for producing simple graphics. It does offer some advanced features such as image processing functions and gradient fill. XPaint was originally written by David Koblas.
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FontForge Windows builds
Unofficial Windows builds of FontForge
The aim of this project is to compile up-to-date Windows builds of FontForge. For 'stable' builds, see https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases The build system used was based off that offered by Matthew Petroff (http://www.mpetroff.net/software/fontforge-windows/), but has since been practically rewritten. New in 11/07/2020: * Synced with the 20201107 release. New in 06/04/2020: * Updated to latest master, picks up a clipboard copying fix New in 14/03/2020: * Synced with the 20200314 release. New in 01/03/2020: * Updated to latest master, now built with CMake. (prerelease) New in 02/06/2019: * The 32-bit build now uses Python 3 (3.7) instead of Python 2. No further Python 2 builds will be provided. * The GDK3 backend is now used. VcXsrv is no longer bundled. New in 31/07/2017: KNOWN ISSUES: * CTRL-C from console no longer interrupts/stops FontForge -
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mapivi
Picture manager with focus on meta information (XMP, IPTC, EXIF)
Open-source and cross-platform picture manager and organizer with complete meta information support: add, edit, search and remove XMP, IPTC, EXIF and JPEG Comment. It also offers batch conversion/renaming of images and lossless rotation and cropping. -
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DreamStudio by Volocian Studios
Free yourself
Volocian believes first and foremost that financial status shouldn’t be a barrier to entry in multimedia content creation. Whether you want to design a product or website, record a band, remix a song, or produce a feature length movie with professional post production graphics and effects, Volocian™ wants to help, even if you’re using borrowed hardware with no previous experience. We provide affordable products and services for any budget, including cost-free solutions for education and demo purposes, while everything we do is designed with ease of use and flexibility in mind, to suit everyone from novice hobbyists to expert professionals. Wherever possible, Volocian™ relies on free, open source, and cross-platform software to prevent vendor lock-in, planned obsolescence, and software as a service licensing. While we remain pragmatic about the use of proprietary software, as we’re aware of the feature limitations of some open source solutions, free solutions are preferred. -
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TopoCad France
French Geographic Information System
topography oriented GIS for cadastre maintenance fully configurable and totally autonomous (can be transfered to USB key) . -
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A Windows-based ansi/ascii editor with unlimited multi-user capabilities.
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aPhoto
aPhoto is a Batch Intuitive Program Makes Text and Image Watermarks
Introduction: aPhoto is a batch, intuitive and portable program that helps you to make text(eg. Copyright Notice) and image(eg. Logo) watermarks for the photos, and save the result photos to JPG, PNG, GIF, or BMP file formats. aPhoto is a lightweight application whose purpose is to help users embed text or image watermarks on their favorite pictures. This is a portable program, so it is important to mention that it doesn't leave any traces in the Windows Registry. You can copy it on any USB flash drive or other devices, and take it with you whenever you to need to create watermarks on the breeze, without having to go through installation steps. Since this is a Java-based utility, you should make sure you have previously installed the working environment on the computer, otherwise you cannot run the tool. aPhoto sports a clean and intuitive layout that lets you import photos using the built-in browse function. -
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GeniuX Photo EFX
Standalone software for photo editing and digital painting.
NOTE: Source code is no longer available. GeniuX® Photo EFX is a standalone software for photo editing and digital painting, powerful and easy to use. It can load RAW files of reflex digital cameras and is fully compatible with Adobe Photoshop. The previous version of this software counts more than 800.000 entries on Google search engine and is officially approved on Adobe Inc marketplace. Completely designed and produced in Italy, GeniuX® Photo EFX stands out for its 32 bit color graphic engine: it assures refined digital color gradations which allows to obtain bright prints of the highest quality, especially for skin color handling. The interface is conceived to highlight the most popular tools, for example black and white management, professional color processing, noise removal, photomontage and background removal. -
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Float-ditherer
A dithering software based around floats
Float-ditherer is a tool that converts images into pure 1-bit images using a user specified palette tailored to convert images,textures and sprites using a float-based sampling method and float matrix. The software is meant to be lightweight and for power-users -
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GLIMPSE is a image manipulation package, developed for novice users.It supports file formats like BMP,PCX and TGA of various color depth. The striking feature of GLIMPSE is that it requires very less amount of resources, as it can be run even in DOS.
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TikZiT
pgf/TikZ diagram editor
TikZiT HAS MOVED! TikZiT is now being hosted at GitHub. The versions here are out of date. See the website link below to download the latest version. -
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360panorama gimp plugins
4 plugins for 360 panorama editing
GIMP Plug-In set for 360° panoramas =================================== This plugin set contain 4 plugins helpful in 360° equirectangular panorama creation: * fill_zenith_nadir - fills transparent areas on the top and the bottom of the generated panorama with a gradient that smoothly connects to the neighbour pixels * panorama_to_zenith_nadir - converts panorama to editable form of zenith and nadir areas. This allows for easy editing, eg. patching, filling, placing a logo * zenith_nadir_to_panorama - converts back the editable zenith and nadir to panorama projection * set_google_plus_metadata - attach metadata needed to publish panorama on Google+ -
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Dr.Oste
Escher's Droste Effect
The Scope is to create a program, which can edit an image with the Droste effect. This program also provides some extra functions like rotating, scaling, converting and filtering. There exist some other programs which also have the some functions, but they are often very expensive and complex to use. For more Information: http://www.josleys.com/article_show.php?id=82 See article: http://www.docma.info/software/artikel/detail/droste-bilder-selbstgemacht.html?L=0cmd%253Dinfomailcmd%253Dinfomail&cHash=57024747077a4e58428fb485285dac18 -
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jpg-compressor
decrease size of images without loosing quality
Decrease size of images got from your digital camera, scanner, mobile, etc without loosing quality or size! -
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Agar
Cross Platform GUI Toolkit
Agar provides a base GUI framework and a standard set of widgets from which graphical applications can be built which run natively under X11, Windows, MacOS, SDL and others. It takes advantage of texture and GPU acceleration wherever available. Agar can also attach to an existing framebuffer, SDL or OpenGL context and operate as a self-contained window-manager. It includes a standard library of general-purpose widgets, and is also designed to be extended externally. New widgets can be implemented as part of an application or library. Complex user interface elements can be realized often in few lines of code. Agar is also extensible at the low-level. The low-level API is documented such that modular drivers can be written which enable Agar applications to work seamlessly under many platforms graphics systems without any change at the application level.
