Xara LX is a very versatile and mature piece of graphics software, tailored for web, print and publishing. Xtreme combines advanced and powerful vector illustration with integrated photo manipulation and DTP features. After 15 years of development, Xara Xtreme offers a very slick, easy-to-use and easy-to-learn approach. It can import and export to a large number of formats, including SVG, EPS, PNG, GIF, JPEG, PDF, PostScript, Adobe Illustrator, Adope Photoshop and, via plug-ins, even more.
Krita is a powerful painting and image editing application for KDE Desktop Enviroment. Krita contains both ease-of-use and fun features like guided painting. Krita's design emphasizes creating new images as opposed to manipulating existing photographs. It has been influenced to an extent by Corel Painter.
Blender is an integrated 3D suite for modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Blender has its own particular user interface, which is implemented entirely in OpenGL and designed with speed in mind. Great for making 3D stills, animations, models for games and interactive content.
Qtpfsgui is a graphical user interface application that aims to provide a work flow for HDR or High Dynamic Range Imaging. It allows you to easily create an HDR file from a set of images of the same scene taken at different exposure settings. Qtpfsgui supports jpeg, png, ppm, pbm, and tiff image formats.
The GIMP, Gnu Image Manipulation Program, is a graphics editor used to process digital graphics and photographs. Typical uses include creating graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photos, altering colors, combining multiple images, removing unwanted image features, and converting between different image formats. The Gimp includes many of the features, functions, and plug ins of expensive commercial photo editing programs.
DigiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for KDE, which makes importing and organizing digital photos a "snap". The photos are organized in albums which can be sorted chronologically, by folder layout or by custom collections. Supports many plugins and filters and is compatible with most models of digital cameras for transfering pictures with ease.
A vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more.
QCad is an application for computer aided drafting in two dimensions. With QCad you can create technical drawings such as plans for buildings, interiors or mechanical parts. QCad was designed with modularity, extensibility and portability in mind. But what people notice most often about QCad is its intuitive user interface. QCad is a simple 2D CAD system for everyone. You don't need any CAD experience to get started with QCad immediately.
An easy to use cross-platform panoramic imaging tool chain based on Panorama Tools. With Hugin you can assemble a mosaic of photographs into a complete immersive panorama, stitch any series of overlapping pictures and much more.