Open Source Linux Graphic Design Software
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Graphic Design Software for Linux
View 16 business solutionsBrowse free open source Graphic Design software and projects for Linux 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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Reference library for supporting the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format.
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PhotoCraft
An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop
PhotoCraft is an open-source image editor written entirely in Rust as a clean-room reimplementation of familiar Photoshop workflows. It supports layers, masks, adjustment layers, layer styles, text, vectors, brushes, and real PSD files. A GPU compositor built on wgpu targets Metal, Vulkan, DirectX 12, and WebGPU. Copy-on-write tiles and multithreaded filters help keep editing responsive. Its engine can be controlled through the desktop UI, CLI, JSON control channel, or MCP server for agent automation. Builds are available for macOS, Windows, Linux, and the web. The project is still in early alpha and is actively working toward broader Photoshop parity. -
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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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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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The Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) is an unofficial extension of the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format. APNG patch provides APNG support to libpng. APNG support was merged! https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/pull/706
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FreeImage is a library project for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats (PNG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP and others). Some highlights are: extremely simple in use, not limited to the local PC (unique FreeImageIO) and Plugin driven!
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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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A very high quality package of printer drivers for CUPS on Linux and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. This project also maintains an enhanced Print plug-in for GIMP 2.x from the same code base.
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LightCraft
Reimplementation of Adobe Lightroom in pure Rust
LightCraft is an open-source photo library and raw-development application written in pure Rust as a clean-room alternative to Lightroom-style workflows. It combines image organization with nondestructive photo editing in one native application. Adjustments include exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, whites, blacks, and local tone processing. Rendering uses a scene-referred, wide-gamut, 32-bit floating-point pipeline designed to preserve color and highlight detail. Original files remain untouched while edits are applied as reversible development settings. The application runs natively on macOS, Windows, and Linux and can also operate in the browser through WebAssembly. Its engine is designed so AI agents can drive workflows end to end through MCP. -
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VectorCraft
An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Illustrator
VectorCraft is an open-source vector illustration editor built in pure Rust as a clean-room reimplementation of familiar Adobe Illustrator workflows. It provides tools such as Pen, Direct Selection, Pathfinder, Smart Guides, layers, swatches, blends, gradient meshes, repeats, and envelope distortion. Exact curve booleans and structural-sharing undo are designed for reliable editing. Its native format is JSON-based, while SVG, PDF-compatible AI, PNG, JPEG, WebP, and other formats are supported for interchange. The same codebase runs on macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and WebAssembly. A JSON control channel and MCP server expose editing commands to AI agents for automated drawing and export workflows. -
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NBTExplorer
A graphical NBT editor for all Minecraft NBT data sources
NBTExplorer is an open source graphical NBT (Named Binary Tag) data editor for Minecraft. It supports reading and writing in a number of formats including Standard NBT files (e.g. level.dat), Schematic files, Uncompressed NBT files (e.g. idcounts.dat), Minecraft region files and more. -
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A whole bunch of utilities for primitive manipulation of graphic images. Wide array of converters from one graphics format to another. E.g. from g3 fax format to jpeg. Many basic graphics editing tools such as magnifying and cropping.
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Upscayl
Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows
Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, MacOS and Windows built with Linux-First philosophy. Upscayl is a cross-platform application built with the Linux-first philosophy. This means that we prioritize Linux builds over others but that doesn't mean we'll break things for other OSes. Upscayl does not work without a GPU, sorry. You'll need a Vulkan-compatible GPU to upscale images. CPU or iGPU won't work. You can also download the flatpak version and double-click the flatpak file to install via Store but wait for the full release, we'll be pushing it to Flathub for easy access. Upscayl uses AI models to enhance your images by guessing what the details could be. It uses Real-ESRGAN (and more in the future) model to achieve this. The CLI tool is called real-esrgan-ncnn-vulkan and it's available on the Real-ESRGAN repository. -
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diagrams.net
Security-first diagramming for teams
Bring your storage to our online tool, or go max privacy with the desktop app. Diagram files created in 2005 will load in the app today. Works with Google Drive and Google Workplace (G Suite). Use add-ons for Docs, Sheets and Slides. It works with OneDrive and Sharepoint. Office 365 app for Word, Powerpoint and Excel. Highest-rated Confluence app in the Atlassian Marketplace. Works in Jira too. Works with GitHub, GitLab and Dropbox for visual documentation in distributed teams. You can download diagrams.net Desktop for offline use on Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS. Nextcloud is an ideal on-premise file hosting system for diagrams.net. -
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Inkscape
Free and open source vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac, & Linux
Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor available on GNU/Linux, Windows, and macOS. It provides a powerful set of tools for creating both artistic and technical illustrations, including cartoons, logos, typography, diagrams, and flowcharts. Unlike raster graphics, Inkscape uses vector graphics, allowing images to be scaled infinitely without losing quality. The software’s primary format is the standardized SVG file, which ensures compatibility with many other programs and web browsers. Inkscape supports importing and exporting a wide range of formats such as AI, EPS, PDF, PS, and PNG. Its user-friendly interface and multilingual support make it accessible to a global audience, while its extensible architecture allows users to customize functionality via add-ons. Backed by a vibrant international community, Inkscape offers plenty of tutorials and support resources for users at all levels. Licensed under the GPL, it is maintained by contributors worldwide. -
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Developer's Image Library
A full featured cross-platform image library
Developer's Image Library (DevIL) is a cross-platform image library utilizing a simple syntax to load, save, convert, manipulate, filter and display a variety of images with ease. -
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XTrkCAD Model RR Track Planner
Model Railway CAD program
XTrackCAD is a open-source, free, CAD program for designing model railroad layouts. You can easily create layout of any scale or size. Libraries for many brands, scales and gauges of track and turnouts/points and model structures are included. Adding new components is easy with the built-in editor. It runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, -
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GeoTools, the Java GIS toolkit
Toolkit for working with and mapping geospatial data
GeoTools is an open source (LGPL) Java code library which provides standards compliant methods for the manipulation of geospatial data. GeoTools is an Open Source Geospatial Foundation project. The GeoTools library data structures are based on Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications. -
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darktable
darktable is an open source photography workflow application
darktable is an open source photography workflow application and non-destructive raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images, enhance them and export them on local or remote storage. -
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FigCraft
FigCraft: interface design and prototyping
FigCraft is a free, open-source interface design and prototyping application that provides an alternative to Figma for creating user interfaces, interactive prototypes, and design systems. Built entirely in Rust, FigCraft delivers a fast, native design environment with support for vector editing, auto layout, reusable components, and advanced styling tools. Users can create responsive layouts, manage design variables, build component libraries, and develop interactive prototypes with transitions and conditional interactions. The software includes advanced vector drawing capabilities, typography controls, gradients, effects, and export options for SVG, PNG, JPG, WebP, and PDF files. FigCraft also supports AI-powered design automation through its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, command-line interface, and scripting capabilities, allowing AI agents to create and modify designs. Available for Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, and web browsers. -
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The UFRaw (Unidentified Flying Raw) is a tool for reading and manipulating raw images from digital cameras. It supports most of the existing raw formats (any format supported by DCRaw). UFRaw can be used on its own or as a Gimp plug-in.
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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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Blockly
The web-based visual programming editor
The Blockly library adds an editor to your app that represents coding concepts as interlocking blocks. It outputs syntactically correct code in the programming language of your choice. Custom blocks may be created to connect to your own application. Blockly in a browser allows web pages to include a visual code editor for any of Blockly's five supported programming languages, or your own. Blockly plugins are self-contained pieces of code that add functionality to Blockly. Blockly codelabs provide step-by-step instructions on how to use and customize Blockly. From a user's perspective, Blockly is an intuitive, visual way to build code. From a developer's perspective, Blockly is a ready-made UI for creating a visual language that emits syntactically correct user-generated code. Blockly can export blocks to many programming languages.
