40 Great Open Source Graphic Programs
I thought that you should be aware of few Open Source Graphic Programs, because now everybody is speaking about the Open Source movement, so I thought that you should know more about 40 projects. You will find here their name, a screenshot and few details. I know that it is better to stop with intro presentation and get start with the article. So, here are the 40 Open Source graphic programs:
Scribus
Production: MacOS X: Aqua, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
Scribus is one program which can bring professional page layout to Windows desktop and to Unix, Linux, OS and MacOS X desktops, too.
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Scribus
Digikam
Production: Linux, Unix
Digikam is very advanced digital photo management application and can organize and import digital photos in albums and for them you have a lot of options: can be tagged, commented, rated, can be sorted chronologically, can be organized very well, etc.
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Digikam
Vips
Production: Console (Text Based), Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
Vips is known as a free image processing system.
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Vips
Glips Graffiti SVG Editor
Production: Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
Glips Graffiti SVG Editor is a cross platform SVG graphics editor base, which features path tools, shape tools, image import and basic text support.
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Glips Graffiti SVG Editor
Album Shaper
Production: MacOS X, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
The Album Shaper is used to create, maintain and share photo albums using open formats, like Jpeg and Html.
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Album Shaper
TundraDraw
Production: Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
TundraDraw features network connectivity and allows you to draw over the Internet. It is a cross platform ANSI/ ASCII drawing program.
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TundraDraw
Abhishek’s Glimpse
Production: Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
Glimpse is a multi platform which supports TGA, PCX and BMP files. It also provides dodging, edge detection, watermarks, embossing, brightness adjustment, blurring and sharpening.
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Abhishek’s Glimpse
WebPic
Production: Web Environment, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
WebPic is used to take a directory of digital camera pictures and provides a front-end for Web viewing. It is using PerlMagick as the interface and ImageMagick for the image processing.
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WebPic
Xpdf
Production: Console (Text Based), Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
Xpdf project is a viewer for PDF (Portable Document Format) files and also includes: PDF to Post Script converter, PDF text extractor and many more.
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Xpdf
QCad
Production: MacOS X, X11 Applications
QCad is easy to use 2D Cad program for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. As standard file format, it is using DXF.
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QCad
LinPHA
Production: Web Environment
LinPHA is multilingual, easy to use flexible photo, image, archive, gallery, album written in PHP.
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LinPHA
Scilab Image Processing Toolbox
Production: Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
SIP generates image processing, computer vision routines for SciLab and pattern recognition.
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Scilab Image Processing Toolbox
png2ico
Production: Microsoft- Windows, OS Independent, POSIX and Linux
PNG2ICO converts PNG files into Windows ICO icon resource files.
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view3dscene
Production: Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
view3dscene is a viewer fo MD3, VRML 1.0, VRML 2.0, 3SD files.
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view3dscene
Gallery Mage
Production: MacOS X, Window, Linux
Gallery Mage is a system designed to work with online gallery display scripts. You can use it for scripts such as SPGM.
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Gallery Mage
flphoto
Production: MacOS X, Web Environment, X11 Applications
flphoto is a display program and basic image management on the FLTK toolkit.
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flphoto
DVD-Baker
Production: MacOS X, Microsoft, Linux, Unix
DVD-Baker makes slideshows accessible on DVDs, with menus that follow the structure of the Web directories or sites.
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Photovault
Production: MacOS X, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
Photovault is an image organizations and archiving application for photographers.
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Photovault
pHoToMoLo
Production: MacOS X, Windows- Windows 95, 98, ME, Microsoft
pHoToMoLo is a great toolset, which is transforming Jpeg images into JFIF or Exif format.
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pHoToMoLo
MinDia
Production: Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
MinDia is used to create, modify and present multimedia slideshows.
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MinDia
GFXIndex
Production: Microsoft- Windows, POSIX
GFXIndex creates HTML files and thumbnails- small representations of the original images.
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white_dune
Production: Other Environment, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
white_dune is a graphical VRML97 (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) editor, animation tool and simple NURBS- Super formula 3D modeler.
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white_dune
K-3D
Production: GNU, Linux and Win32
K-3D is well known 3D animation, modeling and rendering system for GNU, Linux and Win32, which includes creation and editing of geometry in OpenGL solid, texture mapped and shaded views, animated procedural geometric effects, and many more.
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K-3D
Gmsh
Production: MacOS X, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
Gmsh is made to provide a simple meshing tool for academic problems. It is an automatic 3D finite element grid generator with CAD and post processing facilities.
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Gmsh
Misfit Model 3D
Production: MacOS X, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
Misfit Model 3D is an OpenGL based 3D model editor with multi level undo, simple texturing, skeletal animations, plug-in system for adding new model, image filters, etc.
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Misfit Model 3D
Coin
Production: MacOS X, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
Coin is an implementation for Open Inventor, which is the program standard API for 3D graphics programming.
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Coin
JPatch
Production: Windows, Linux
JPatch is a 3D animation and modeling tool made for modeling and animating organic shapes, like animals, humans, aliens, etc.
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JPatch
SharpConstruct
Production: X11 Applications
SharpConstruct is another OpenGL graphic application made for real time sculpting of polygon meshes.
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SharpConstruct
Height Map Editor
Production: Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications- Gnome, GTK, KDE, Qt
Height Map Editor generates edits and manipulates terrain height maps.
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Height Map Editor
GRASS GIS
Production: MacOS X, Windows, Cygwin, POSIX
GRASS GIS or better said the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System is software and vector based GIS (Geographic Information System) for image processing, graphic production and spatial modeling.
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GRASS GIS
DrQueue
Production: MacOS X, No Input/ Output (Daemon), Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
DrQueue helps manage jobs on a render farm and it works under Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and IRIX and supports Pixie, Maya, Blender, Lightwave, Bmrt, Mental Ray and 3Delight.
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DrQueue
Earth3D
Production: MacOS X- Aqua, X11 Applications- Qt
Earth3D can visualize Earth in real-time, in 3D view. It uses the data from CIA, NASA, USGS and the city of Osnabruck.
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Earth3D
fluxus
Production: MacOS X, POSIX, Linux
Fluxus reads live OSC and audio network messages. It is a graphical live coding environment for Scheme.
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fluxus
Mercator
Production: MacOS X, Windows, POSIX
Mercator is a management library and terrain generation, which can handle the date required for terrain physics and rendering.
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Mercator
SkullyDoo
Production: MacOS X, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
SkullyDoo software is made for 3D image segmentation and visualization.
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SkullyDoo
Plush
Production: MacOS X, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
Plush is a software that can render 3D images in real time.
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Plush
Elmer FEM
Production: Console (Text Based), MacOS X, Win32 (MS Windows), X11 Applications
Elmer FEM is a tool used for multi-physics problems and includes structural mechanics, physical models and fluid dynamics.
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Elmer FEM
OsiriX
Production: MacOS X
OsiriX is software for image processing, dedicated to DICOM images made for medical equipment and confocal microscopy.
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OsiriX
Endeavour Mark II
Production: OSIX, Unix
Endeavour Mark II is a file manager and file browser with a recycled objects system, an image browser and an archived front end.
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Endeavour Mark II
RoadMap
Production: Handheld- PDA, X11 Applications- GTK, Qt
RoadMap is a navigation software created for Unix and Pocket PC and displays street maps.
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RoadMap
Exiv2
Production: MacOS X, Microsoft- Windows, Linux
Exiv2 is an IPTC C++ and EXIF library and can make writing and reading Exif and Iptc metadata look easily.
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Exiv2
And for you, as a bonus there are: GIMP and Inkscape.
Tags: Open source, graphic, programs, project, Scribus, Digikam, Vips, MacOS X, X11 Applications, Glips Graffiti, SVG editor, SVG graphics, Win32, MS Windows, Album Shaper, TundraDraw, ANSI, ASCII, Abhishek’s Glimpse, TGA, PCX, BMP, WebPic, PerlMagick, ImageMagick, Xpdf, PDF, Console, QCad, Linux, Windows, DXF, LinPHA, Scilab Image Processing Toolbox, png2ico, view3dscene, Gallery Mage, flphoto, Photovault, pHoToMoLo, MinDia, DVD-Baker, GFXIndex, white_dune, K-3D, Gmsh, Misfit Model 3D, Coin, JPatch, SharpConstruct, Height Map Editor, GRASS GIS, DrQueue, Earth3D, fluxus, Mercator, SkullyDoo, Plush, Elmer FEM, OsiriX, Endeavour Mark II, RoadMap, Exiv2