- 2D
- Blog
- Linux for Designers
- Linux Photography
- PhotoLinux A place for Photographers using GNU/Linux
- where Linux stands as far as photography is concerned.
- Nodal compositing in Blender supports some amazingly high quality effects and nigh on infinite bit depths, so you can keep your work in pristine form. You can save as OpenEXR for the full bit depth. 16 bit full TIFFs are being worked on as we speak, but the OpenEXR format has some serious versatility regarding bit depths etc.
- digiKam 0.9.x has 80% of what you need, 0.10 version which is coming out for Christmas should have 99% (no contact-sheet).
- I think Krita 2.0 (which will, deo volente, be released this year) will satisfy many of your requirements for photo work. We’ve got the precision, the bit depth, the filters and the tools — and the nested layers, non-destructive filter masks and all that. As well as painting stuff and oodles of flexibility, of course.
- DigiKam (comes with ShowFoto):
CHECK * display quickly any file type (including RAW)
CHECK * thumbnails / image / metadata / folder browsing panes that can be moved around and hidden
CHECK * full exif and XMP tags management / search support
CHECK * slideshow / fullscreen
SORRY * create contact sheets (I know, this looks like a gadget, but it comes in very handy)
CHECK * right-click on an image to open it in the raw converter / image editor
Er, digikam does do color management: go to settings/color management and check the checkbox that says “Enable color managemen
- I just want to add my agreement to the scripting approach. The tools are all there (dcraw, exiftool, ImageMagick, netpbm, perl, python, etc), and they are first rate. It’s just not the usual GUI approach that many are looking for, but it *is* the unix way.
- Gwenview:
CHECK * display quickly any file type (including RAW)
CHECK * thumbnails / image / metadata / folder browsing panes that can be moved around and hidden
SORRY * full exif and XMP tags management / search support
CHECK * slideshow / fullscreen
SORRY * create contact sheets (I know, this looks like a gadget, but it comes in very handy)
CHECK * right-click on an image to open it in the raw converter / image editor
SORRY * Color Managed
- The p-Code Machine
- linuxphoto.org
- Color 'Round Linux
- Tools for editing vector graphics in GNU/Linux
- background technologies
- Using Linux for Photography, where we stand
- Linux color management
- . Although it is now possible to obtain a very consistent color management workflow under Linux, certain problems still remain:
- status
- color management under Linux, while functional, has not yet acquired mature status.
- * Some necessary software such as LUT loaders can seldom be found in the package repositories of even the major Linux distributions.
- * The absence of a central user control panel for color settings.
- * Many hardware devices for color calibration lack drivers and proper supporting software on Linux.
- one can simply produce a profile on a different OS and then use it in a Linux workflow. Additionally, certain hardware, such as most printers and certain monitors, can be calibrated under another OS and then used in a fully color-managed workflow on Linux.
- tools for device profiling
- Color Management Systems
- Color Management Aware Software
- Monitor Calibration
- Download an ICC profile for your monitor
- Focus Numérique offers freely downloadable icc profiles for some monitors and laptops. You can use them with xcalib on your Linux system. It assumes that you keep your monitor settings as from the manufacturer.
- It is not as good as owning a colorimeter - since calibration varies over time and from sample to sample. But still, it is much better that the poor man’s calibration - that is, if your monitor is in the available models.
- Printing
- Gnome Graphics Tablet Apps
- scanning
- kipi-plugins.org
- LensFun library
- commandline tools
- howto's
- back to root map
- Gimp
- free image manipulation program
- features
- Digital Retouching
- Photo Enhancement
- Customizable Interface
- graphics manipulation package
- Hardware Support
- GIMP includes a very unique support for various input devices out of the box. Pressure and tilt sensitive tablets, but also a wide range of USB or MIDI controllers. You can bind often-used actions to device events such as rotating a USB wheel or moving a MIDI controller's slider. Change the size, angle or opacity of a brush while you paint, bind your favorite scripts to buttons. Speed up your workflow!
- To save disk space, any format can be saved with an archive extension such as ZIP, GZ or BZ2 and GIMP will transparently compress the file without you needing to do any extra steps.
- Thanks to the transparent virtual file system, it is possible to load and save files to from remote locations using protocols such as FTP, HTTP or even SMB (MS Windows shares) and SFTP/SSH.
- Documentation
- tutorials
- community sites
- screenshot
- sites
- plugins
- GIMP plugin registry - find more plugins
- gimp brushes
- Extra Brushes for The GIMP This package contains more useful brushes for your GIMPy artistic enjoyment. The package is a work in progress. More brushes to be added. These brushes have been packaged by Philip Newborough http://crunchbang.org/
- perl Postprocessing scripts for gimp
- gimp-gap (gimp 2.4 only)
- gimp-DBP (David's Batch Processor)
- a simple batch processing plugin for the Gimp - it allows the user to automatically perform operations (such as resize) on a collection of image files.
- Its main advantage is that the user does not have to learn a scripting language. Like the Gimp itself, DBP relies on a graphical interface. The user creates a list of images, and sets up the processing required for each image. The results of the current settings can be displayed. Once the required sequence of operations has been set up, DBP performs the same processing on each image in turn.
- The images can be colour corrected, resized, cropped, and sharpened, then renamed and saved to a different file in a specified image format. All the steps (except loading and saving the image!) are optional; so the simplest use of DBP is just to convert a number of image files from one format to another.
- The processing steps are laid out on a series of pages, one for each step.
- Hint: start at the Input page and set up each one in order.
- Hint: use the Test button to see the effect of the processing
- can be found in Filters > Batch > Batch Process...
- gimp-gutenprint
- print plugin for the GIMP
This package includes the Gutenprint Print plugin for the GIMP.
This is Gutenprint version 5.0.2, a stable release
in the 5.0 series.
Gutenprint is the print facility for the GIMP, and in addition a
suite of drivers that may be used with common UNIX spooling systems
using GhostScript or CUPS. These drivers provide printing quality
for UNIX/Linux on a par with proprietary vendor-supplied drivers in
many cases, and can be used for many of the most demanding printing
tasks. Gutenprint was formerly known as Gimp-Print. - gutenprint-developer-manual.pdf
- gutenprint-users-manual.pdf
- you can find it @ File > Print With Gutenprint...
- gimp-Print helper
- A Script to guide you to colour-managed printing,
- Typically colour rendering differs between devices (monitors, printers). Aside of calibrating the devices to a defined state colour-profiles are used to describe the behaviour of the output-devices. Gimp realises colour-management by using a working-colour-space, a monitor-colour-space to get a good vision on a monitor and a printer-colour-space to be able to render print-previews.
- With the availability of good photo-printers there is a need to include them into the colour-management chain by:
- 1 keeping the printer in a controlled state (for example HP 9180 and HP 8850 can calibrate themselves, calibrate always with the same paper).
- 2 get a colour-profile (or make it) for each paper-type. Leave the colour-relevant settings of your printer-driver untouched after calibration and profiling.
- 3 convert the image from the working-colour-space to the printer-colour-space and
- 4 do eventually some enhancements (rotation, scaling, sharpening) and at last
- 5 print it.
- This script assist for the steps 3 to 5. Colour-Management is only supported for RGB-Images.
- GETTING PRINTER-COLOUR-PROFILES
- a)Use vendor supplied profiles from printer or paper manufactors. These are mostly produced not with linux systems, therefore it is questionable it they are reliable for linux systems
- b)Some vendors offer to make profiles for you
- c)You can use vuescan (www.hamrick.com)to profile a printer by using a scanner. Vuescan can even profile your scanner by using an IT8-target (for example from www.targets.coloraid.de/)
- gimp-save-for-web
- Save for Web
Save for Web allows to find compromise between minimal file size
and acceptable quality of image quickly. While adjusting various
settings, you may explore how image quality and file size change.
Options to reduce file size of an image include setting compression
quality, number or colors, resizing, cropping, Exif information
removal, etc.
- This web export is simliar to Photoshop's "Save for Web" and allows you to export graphics into the popular image formats Gif, JPEG and PNG. The exporter dialog gives you a visual feedback and includes functions for croping and resizing.
- You can find it @ File > Save for Web...
- gimp-plugin-userfilter
- Generic scriptable filter plug-in for The Gimp.
- GIMP User Filter allows the use of Photoshop (*.8bf) filters
- if your only interest is in importing filters, you can ignore the controls for writing filters. To import a Photoshop filter, all you need to do is click the Open button on the Filter Editor tab and navigate to your download directory. By default, the file manager displays only .GUF (native GIMP files), so you need to change it to .8bf (Photoshop filters) or, better yet, since some of the downloaded filters may not have case-sensitive names and display their extensions as all-caps, to All files. When you have selected a filter, you can see a preview in the top left of the screen. To apply it to the currently active file in the GIMP, click the OK button.
- Should you find the filter worth keeping, go to the Filter Directories tab to designate a storage directory for imports. If you save the filter with a .GUF extension, you can save time the next time you use the filter by going directly to the Filter Manager tab, which lists only imported filters.
- Photoshop Filters.com
- can be found under Filters>Generic>UserFilter
- Separate+
- A plugin providing rudimentary CMYK support for The GIMP
- This plug-in is improvement version of Alastair M. Robinson's "Separate" plug-in.
- Gimp & Seperate+ = CMYK
- How its works:
* Open your RGB image in Gimp via "File > Open"
* Start Seperate+ "Image > Seperate > Seperate"
* Setup the profiles, may as source "Adobe 1998" and as destination profile "Euroscala V2"
* Press OK, an image with 4 layers is created
* Each layer represents a color channel of CMYK
* Now save the image as CMYK Tiff at "<Image Window> > Image > Seperate > Save...
- digicam
- gimp-ufraw
- a graphical tool to import raw data from high-end digital cameras
into the Gimp.
The Unidentified Flying Raw (UFRaw) is a utility for converting and
manipulating raw images from digital cameras. It can be used as a
stand-alone tool or as a Gimp plug-in, and images can be batch
processed using the command-line interface. UFRaw reads most existing
raw formats using Dave Coffin's raw conversion utility DCRaw, and it
supports basic color management using Little CMS, allowing the user to
apply color profiles. - You can also use the stand-alone tool ufraw to convert images interactively. For batch processing of images use ufraw-batch. Type man ufraw or ufraw --help for more information.
- User Guide
- registry.gimp.org > Node > 31
- as Gimp (or Cinepaint) plug-in, you simply open the raw image with the Gimp and the UFRaw preview window pops up.
- gimp-fix-ca
- a Gimp plug-in to correct chromatic aberration
- en.wikipedia.org > Wiki > Chromatic aberration
- able to fix lateral chromatic aberration caused by lens and colored fringing caused by light travel through dense material such as glass and water
- Lateral chromatic aberration appears due to lens imperfection.
- can be accessed via the menu Filters->Colors->Chromatic Aberration....
- gimp-focusblur
- This plug-in makes a out of focus with luminosity and depth, like a sight or lenses. It can be used with depth map, depth fakes and shining effect. Also it works as a simple and applicable blur.
- registry.gimp.org > Node > 1444
- Usage
- can be accessed via Filters > Blur > FocusBlur
- gimp-refocus
- Refocus is a plug-in for the Gimp (the GNU Image Manipulation Program). Frequently, when processing images, e.g. scanning photo's or slides, images become slightly blurred. The Refocus Gimp plug-in can be used to "refocus" such images.
- "Refocus" can be found at "Filter > Enhance"
- Exif Viewer
- This is an Exif Viewer, mainly for jpeg photos taken with a digital camera. It is an update of the "Exif Browser" plugin from the old registry. It requires a recent version of libexif (tested with 0.6.16).
- gimp-liquidrescale
- It is a free, open source frontend to the Liquid Rescale Library, which provides an implementation of the Seam Carving algorithm as described in this paper by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir.
- It aims at resizing pictures non uniformly while preserving the features of the picture, i.e. avoiding distortion of the important parts of the picture. It can also be used to remove portions of the picture in a consistent way.
- Tutorial
- Manual
- Forum:General
- Forum:Help
- "Liquid Rescale" is located in "Layers"
- gimp-GREYCstoration
- algorithms for image denoising and interpolation.
- The GREYCstoration algorithm is an implementation of diffusion tensor-directed
diffusion PDE's for image regularization and interpolation.
The algorithm can be used for image filtering, in order to denoise, simplify or create painting styles from color images.
- Color image denoising
- Restoration of a color photograph
- Restoration of a extremely noisy image
- Restoration of webcam images
- Add synthetic uniform noise
- Fix scanned images
- Remove JPG artefacts.
- Achieve a painting effect when oversmoothing the image. - Demonstration
- User Guide
- Forum
- can be found @ Filters > Enhance > GREYCstoration
- gimp-Wavelet-denoise
- reduce noise in each channel of an image separately. The user interface allows colour mode and preview channel selection. The denoising threshold can be set for each colour channel independently.
- Features
- * User interface with preview is available.
- * Amount of denoising for each channel is selectable.
- * Possibility to denoise YCbCr or CIELAB channels instead of RGB exists.
- * Noise profiling is done.
- * Conversion from RGB to YCbCr and RGB to CIELAB is lossless.
- * Preview is capable of displaying one single channel only if desired.
- * Processing time is reasonably fast (around 20 seconds for a 10 Megapixel image) and independent from the amount of denoising applied.
- * User interface in multiple languages is available.
- can be found @ Filters > Enhance > Wavelet denoise
- Texture tools
- gimp-texturize
- generates large textures from a small sample Gimp-texturize is a plug-in for the GIMP, a famous picture editor and manipulator. A few images are designed to be copy-pasted one next to another and still look natural, but the result is usually periodic and very monotonous. The Texturize plugin allows you to have a realistic pseudo-periodic
- you can find it at "Filter > Map > Texturize..."
- gimp-resynthesizer
- Gimp plugin for texture synthesis
This gimp plugin takes samples of textures, and synthesizes larger textures
from them. It can be used to extend textures (including making tileable
textures), remove objects from textures, and make themed images.
- Resynthesizer is a Gimp plug-in for texture synthesis. Given a sample of a texture, it can create more of that texture. This has a surprising number of uses:
* Creating more of a texture
(including creation of tileable textures)
* Removing objects from images
(great for touching up photos)
* Creating themed images - you can find it in at Filter > Map > Resynthesize...
- gimp-normalmap
- Normal map plugin for GIMP
This is a plugin for GIMP version 2.0+. It allows you to convert images into
RGB normal maps for use in per-pixel lighting applications. The goal is to
completely clone NVIDIA's photoshop plugin, with a few new useful featur
- Normal mapping is used to re-detail simplified meshes
- In 3D computer graphics, normal mapping is an application of the technique known as bump mapping.
- While bump mapping perturbs the existing normal (the way the surface is facing) of a model, normal mapping replaces the normal entirely. Like bump mapping, it is used to add details to shading without using more polygons. But where a bump map is usually calculated based on a single-channel (interpreted as grayscale) image, the source for the normals in normal mapping is usually a multichannel image (x, y and z channels) derived from a set of more detailed versions of the objects.
- you can find it @ Filter > Map > Normalmap...
- GIMP DDS plugin
- This is a plugin for GIMP version 2.4.x. It allows
you to load and save images in DirectDraw Surface (DDS) format.
- The DirectDraw Surface (.dds) file format, from Microsoft, is used for storing textures and cubic environment maps, both compressed and uncompressed.
- specifically designed for use in real-time rendering applications, such as 3D games.
- Due to the fact that most video cards natively support DXTn texture compression, use of this format can save memory on the video card.
- modwiki.net > Wiki > DDS (file format)
- X11 Mouse Cursor plug-in
- X11 Mouse Cursor plug-in for GIMP (or gimp-xmc-plugin) enable GIMP to import, export X11 Mouse Cursor.
- Gimp-deskew-plugin
- called auto straighten, is the automatic rotation of an image such that the text is vertically aligned. This is great for cleaning up scanned documents.
- can be found in Filters > Misc > Deskew
- gimp-streak
- a simulation of a streak camera. A streak camera images an object through a slit - thus getting a kind of "one dimensional image". This image is propagated along the second dimension of the image plane at a constant speed. The result is a picture of the time dependency of the object. The plug-in takes a film (multilayer image), cuts a slice of selectable width and position out of each layer and puts the slices together to the streak image.
- en.wikipedia.org > Wiki > Streak camera
- can be found in /Filters/Animation/Streak
- g'mic toolbox
- registry.gimp.org > Node > 13469
- The G'MIC Toolbox is a GIMP plug-in which defines a set of various filters, including artistic filters, image denoising and enhancement, 3D renderers, etc..
- It is a quite large plug-in, integrating a lot of different effects to apply.
- This plug-in is able to update his list of filter definitions from the Internet (so it improves itself over time), as well as allows any user to add its own custom filters in it.
- swf export
- For image conversion and an easy way keeping the content of our lastest Flash project up to date i wrote today an Flash SWF Export Script for Gimp.
- The basic features are still working at the moment (no animations support yet). This script requires the package SWFTools.
- How it work:
- * Open your image in Gimp
- * Goto "File > Flash SWF Export"
- * Setup options, output directory and filename
- * The GIMP background color is exported as the background color of the XHTML
- CMYK Tiff 2 PDF
- To complete my workflow using Seperate+ that generates CMYK Tiff images inside of Gimp i wrote a small Python plugin for Gimp that allows you to convert the saved CMYK Tiff image into a PDF for prepress.
- The way it work is very easy, just follow these steps:
- * Make sure you have installed the package "libtiff-tools" (or tiffcp and tif2pdf)
- * Create your CMYK Tiff images with Seperate+ from RGB images (Ubuntu Ibex shiped with it, install package "gimp-plugin-registry")
- * Start CMYK Tiff 2 PDF "<Image Window> > Image > Seperate > CMYK Tiff 2 PDF"
- * Browse to your saved CMYK Tiff images (up to two)
- * Setup the options you prefer
- * In the same directory of your CMYK Tiff image a PDF using the given names is generated
- This plugin allows you generate prepress PDF
documents of your Inkscape illustrations too:
- * Create your illustration in Inkscape
- * Export it as PNG using 300dpi resolution and the required output size
- * Open this PNG image into Gimp
- * Use Seperate+ as desctibed here
- * Use CMYK Tiff 2 PDF to convert it to a PDF document
- The only limitation for prepress is that you have to add markers, overlapping, color scala etc. yourself. Any feedback is welcome.
- scripts
- youtube
- Inkscape
- Create and edit Scalable Vector Graphics images
Inkscape is an open source drawing tool with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, and CorelDraw that uses the W3C standard scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape supports Creative Commons meta-data, node-editing, layers, complex path operations, text-on-path, and SVG XML editing. It also imports several formats like EPS, Postscript,JPEG, PNG, BMP, and TIFF and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.
Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional planned work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an extension mechanism, and the establishment of a friendly, open, community-oriented development processes. - Documentation
- Articles
- Tools
- Articles
- manpage
- Inkscape - Inkscape Wiki
- tutorials
- forums
- A gallery of art created in Inkscape
- youtube
- plugins
- Svgslice
- allows a high-quality SVG image to be directly
sliced into bitmap graphics for a website
- Vector Graphics
- Xara
- a powerful, general purpose graphics program for Unix
- vector based, but also includes tools for manipulating bitmaps.
- notable for its usability and fast renderer [1]. Xara Xtreme is also notable for being among the first vector graphics software products to provide a fully anti-aliased display, advanced gradient fill, and transparency tools, features now common to many vector graphics editors.
- similarities to CorelDRAW and Inkscape in terms of interface
- special tools for drop shadows, bevels, and navigation buttons.
- runs around eight times faster than Adobe Illustrator
- easy to learn
- The progress of the Linux version has stalled and the program's website has not been updated since August 2006. However, forums continue to be updated, and new builds continue to be released.
- One of the critical components is still proprietary - the part that makes it really fast and it is progressing at a snails pace. It only does basic things and cannot even cut and paste text to or from it or export to any vector format. The Windows version is lights years ahead of the Linux version.
- Forums
- Mailing lists
- Community
- FAQs
- Documentation
- tutorials
- Xara on Linux can't even do copy and paste text from the clipboard either to or from the application and cannot export any vector formats.
- We need more Xara LX users
- ftp.man.poznan.pl > Pub > Linux > Debian > Debian > Pool > Non-free > X > Xaralx
- code.google.com > P > Xarino
- sk1
- sK1 is a powerful illustration program for the Linux platform that can substitute professional proprietary software like CorelDRAW or Adobe Illustrator and we hope the program and its derivatives will be helpful for you.
- sK1 is oriented for PostScript processing.
- features
- * CMYK colorspace support
- * CMYK support in Postscript
- * Cairo-based engine
- * Color managment
- * Universal CDR importer (7-X3 versions)
- * Modern Ttk based (former Tile widgets) user interface
- raven
- an online vector editor. create fully scalable vector art
Powerful path engine
Work with paths, lines, curves, and objects. Control stroke, fill color, and gradient.
Powerful layers
Work with layers, groups, and layer masks. Import scalable vector graphics (SVG) files.
- Delineate raster to vector converter
- Delineate is a tool for converting raster images to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) using AutoTrace or potrace. It loads images using JIU and displays results using Batik. Input formats are JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, PNM, PBM, PGM, PPM, IFF, PCD, PSD, RAS.
- blendernation.com > 2008 > 03 > 06 > Auto-tracing
- vectormagic raster to vector converter
- (online)
- Convert bitmap images like JPEGs, GIFs and PNGs to the crisp, clean, scalable vector art of EPS, SVG, and PDF
- Potracegui
- uniconvertor
- A commanline only, python based vector graphics translator.
It uses the sK1 engine to convert one format to another.
Import filters:
* CorelDRAW ver.7-X3,X4 (CDR/CDT/CCX/CDRX/CMX)
* Adobe Illustrator up to 9 ver. (AI postscript based)
* Postscript (PS)
* Encapsulated Postscript (EPS)
* Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM)
* Windows Metafile (WMF)
* XFIG
* Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
* Skencil/Sketch/sK1 (SK and SK1)
* Acorn Draw (AFF)
Export filters:
* AI (Postscript based Adobe Illustrator 5.0 format)
* SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)
* SK (Sketch/Skencil format)
* SK1 (sK1 format)
* CGM (Computer Graphics Metafile)
* WMF (Windows Metafile)
* PDF (Portable Document Format)
* PS (PostScript)
USAGE: uniconv [INPUT FILE] [OUTPUT FILE]
Example: uniconv drawing.cdr drawing.svg
- Raw Camera/Picture Management
- Color Management
- Lprof
- LPROF is the only open source ICC profiler with a graphical user interface. It can be used to create ICC version 2 compliant profiles for cameras, scanners and monitors. As such it fills a necessary niche in the emerging open source color management effort.
- Oyranos and ICC Examine
- Oyranos is a Colour Management System (CMS) on operating system level. It allows applications and users to match predictably input device colours to output device colours. To do so in a consistent manner, applications and workflows need to support the Oyranos CMS. Sadly, until now only cinepaint makes use of it.
- Documentation
- Oyranos is based one the well established ICC standard and various other specifications. System wide settings in Oyranos shall enshure consistency in a portable fashion. Oyranos will provide in the future a Colour Matching Module (CMM) framework. Users can then transparently select a desired colour engine.
- GAMMApage
- DispcalGUI
- a GUI frontend for several utilities from the open source color management system Argyll CMS
- specifically dispcal, dispread, colprof and dispwin, which when used together allow you to calibrate and profile your display using a measurement device. O
- Argyll Color Management System (Argyll CMS)
- Fonts
- Fontforge
- Font editor for PS, TrueType and OpenType fonts
- allows you to edit outline and bitmap fonts.
You can create new ones or modify old ones. It is also a font format
converter and can convert among PostScript (ASCII & binary Type 1,
some Type 3s, some Type 0s), TrueType, and OpenType (Type2), CID-keyed,
SVG, CFF and multiple-master fonts.
- also provides these programs and utilities:
- fontimage - produce a font thumbnail image;
- mensis - examine and modify some of the tables in
- a truetype or opentype font;
- sfddiff - compare two font files;
- showttf - decompose a font file into its various tables
- Introduction
- Wiki
- Tutorial
- fontstruct
- Fontmatrix
- featureful personal font manager
- a manager built with the kind of features and abilities
graphic designers, layout professionals along with others have felt
necessary, but modernized with some new touches.
Fontmatrix has a concept of 'tagging'. This makes it really nice to group
fonts and even sub-group them logically for use in a book for instance.
It also has extensive gui support for showing all glyphs in a font,
previews of sample text, variable sizing and also tells what kinds of
advanced Open Type features are inside each font. These features have
never been seen outside of a font editor. And not least, it creates a
nice PDF catalogue of user's fonts for printing or reference. In short,
fontmatrix is a font manager for professionals, but is nice and user
friendly. - Linux.com :: Fontmatrix: Font management for the desktop
- Fontmatrix - a Great Font Viewer and Catalog App for Linux
- screenshots
- Fontmatrix lets the user label a font with multiple tags (similar to Gmail labels), which may may be activated or deactivated as sets. It also allows the user to toggle features of OpenType fonts for testing purposes. As of November 2008, the PANOSE classification present in fonts may also be used to select them by similarity. Fontmatrix is included in
- specimen
- font ressouces & blog
- ImageGeneration
- Scan/Print
- PhotoPrint
- a utility designed to assist in the process of printing digital photographs under Linux
- Features
- # Print photographs 1-up, 2-up, 4-up or with any user-selectable number of rows and columns.
- # Create posters, split over several pages.
- # Arrange images into a sort of Carousel, fading from one to another. (Ideal for CD labels)
- # Crop images to fit a specific frame.
- # Apply a decorative border to an image.
- # Make use of ICC colour profiles to provide accurate output.
- # Send 16-bit data to the printer, to avoid "contouring" problems in smooth gradients.
- Photoprint, Gutenprint’s best friend
- rasterbator-ng
- creates huge, rasterized, multi-page images from any picture. The rasterized images can be printed and assembled into extremely cool posters.
- arje.net > Rasterbator
- thats the original versions homepage
- Wiki
- xsane
- a graphical scanning frontend.
- scan to file, do a photocopy, create a fax, create and send a mail and start XSane from the GIMP as gimp plug in.
- Documentation
- manpage
- Skanlite
- an image scanning application that does nothing more than scan and save images.
- KDE 4 image scanning application
- jtOCR
- Printoxx
- Image Layout and Print
- a free open source Linux program for making and printing a photo montage. Images can be added to a layout page using the mouse to select and drop into place. Images can be moved around and resized using the mouse. Text can be added using any font, and moved around as needed.
- more...
- gimphoto
- a GIMP modification with new menu layout, great selection of plugins, and many additional resources for more professional look and feel as digital photo retouching and image editing application package.
- Features
- GimPhoto 1.4.3
- * Based on GIMP 2.4.3
- * New Menu Layout like PS
- * Faster Menu Rendering
- * BIG Toolbox Icon
- * Using Vista Gray Themes
- * Packed with 20+ plugins
- * New brushset + gradientset
- GAP, the gimp animation package is installed here.
- Cinepaint
- collection of free open source software tools for deep paint manipulation and image processing.
- fundamentally different from other painting tools because it handles high fidelity image formats such as Kodak Cineon, SMPTE DPX, and ILM-NVIDIA OpenEXR.
- what is it used for?
- frame-by-frame retouching
- dirt removal
- wire rig removal
- render repair
- background plates
- being used by pro photographers who need greater color fidelity
- FAQ
- Mailing Lists
- Blog
- documentation
- Free test images
- repositories
- Peacock
- "Visual Laboratory".
Experiment with pixel-based images in completely new ways.
Node-based UI
Drag, drop, and connect generators, effects, resources, and controllers.
Combine terrains, patterns, computational effects, and more to create stunning art.
- nip2
- Spreadsheet-like graphical image manipulation tool.
- nip2 aims to be about halfway between Excel and Photoshop. You don't directly edit images --- instead, like a spreadsheet, you build relationships between objects. You enter formula (or select menu items) to describe how to make a new object from some of the objects you already have. nip2 keeps track of these relationships: if you make a change anywhere, nip2 automatically recalculates anything affected by the change.
- You can load a 500MB image, rotate it by 12 degrees, and immediately view the transformed image. This is because only the pixels needed to paint the display are actually calculated. You can add a slider, link it to the rotation, and as you drag the slider you can see your 500MB image spinning on the screen.
- You can apply a filter to the rotated image, zoom in to check the effect on individual pixels, crop out a small section of the filtered image and save the cropped area to disc. All this happens pretty much instantly, with only a few mouse-clicks. The final save may take a little while (since nip2 does actually have to calculate some pixels then), but it will only calculate the pixels it absolutely has to (it will not rotate the entire 500MB image, for example).
- Nip documentation
- HOWTO page
- screenshot
- Working with vast raster images: NIP2
- manpage
- hugin
- Hugin is a panorama stitching and more. A powerful software package for creation and processing of panoramic images.
- Hugin-Tutorial: Panoramabilder erstellen
- Hugin › Wiki › ubuntuusers.de
- the good thing about this utility is the ability to tweak settings to the nth degree, which means you’ve got a better chance of getting a good result if some of your shots are a little dodgy.
- When taking your series of photographs, try to get about 20% to 30% overlap between shots, so you’ll have enough detail to stitch images together. Some lenses have blurry performance near the edges, so you might want even more overlap to ensure the mosaic will feature your best detail from the centers of each image. If there’s a principal feature in the scene, try to capture that feature completely in just one of the images.
- Qtpfsgui
- Mypaint
-
a fast and easy painting application. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only when you need it.
built around a highly configurable brush engine
# exists for several platforms
# support for pressure sensitive graphics tablets
# extensive brush creation and configuration options
# unlimited canvas (you never have to resize)
# undo function
# basic layer support
comes with a large brush collection including charcoal and ink to emulate real media, but the highly configurable brush engine allows you to experiment with your own brushes and with not-quite-natural painting. - Mailing List
- Forums
- Wiki
- Brushes
- Hildonized MyPaint for internet tablets
- Tutorial
- Custom your brush
- Article in the german Ubuntu wiki
- Gimp Paint Studio
- Gimp Paint Studio
- begin to paint and feel comfortable with the program GIMP
- GPS is a set of tools to speed up repetitive tasks
and not have to go adjust the settings for each tool after tool changes
- tools for the illustrator who knows how to paint but did not even know GIMP to such a level as to make the proper tools. So you'll find many tools for different tasks.
- Painting tools and brush, erase, airbrushing, ink ...
- It features a revamped Gimp GUI layout, special brushes, settings etc all tuned for graphics tablet use, and an extensive halp with demos of all the tools.
- Screenshots ..
- LOCAL
- some presets of Gimp Painter are included in Gimp Paint Studio, thats why these two are combined into one package
- Gimp painter
- Gimp-Painter transforms Gimp into numerical tool for painting by adding an additional tool called MixBrush. It is a variation of the Paintbrush tool which simulates in addition to the natural media, spreads out the colors or adds effects of textured paper.
- Gimp Painter subsitutes the standard version of Gimp. It is always possible to install and to use both on the same computer
- wiki
- blog, faq...
- Downloads
- ramonmirandavisualart.blogspot.com - gps blog
- Gogh
- bitmap graphics editor. It is designed to work with pressure-sensitive input devices, like a Wacom tablet.
- features
- * Support for pressure sensitive devices - brush width and opacity may vary with pressure.
- * Pen, Smudge and Eraser brush types
- * Multiple layers with adjustable opacity
- * Zoom
- * Image resize (trim/append), image scale
- * Almost every action is undoable - even resizing the image and deleting layers
- * Images can be saved in Gogh format, or converted to PNG and JPEG formats
- * Color picker
- screenshot
- Linux.com :: Go creative with Gogh
- Gogh 0.1.2.1 as deb archive - Linux for Designers - by Eckhard M ...
- Alchemy
- Alchemy is an open drawing project aimed at exploring how we can sketch, draw, and create on computers in new ways. Alchemy isn’t software for creating finished artwork, but rather a sketching environment that focuses on the absolute initial stage of the creation process. Experimental in nature, Alchemy lets you brainstorm visually to explore an expanded range of ideas and possibilities in a serendipitous way.
- Features
- Interaction
- The Alchemy drawing canvas has an intentionally reduced level of functionality. No undo, no selecting, and no editing. Interaction focuses instead on the output of a great number of good, bad, strange and beautiful shapes.
- Modules
- Alchemy consists of a growing number of ‘modules’ that can be added or removed at will. Using a given module you can do things like:
- * Shout at the computer. Use your voice to control the width of a line or the form of a shape.
- * Draw ‘blind’. Turn off the canvas display and explore what shapes emerge from the ‘darkness’.
- * Create random shapes. Generate shapes that can be used as a starting point for characters, spaceships, or whatever shape you see in the ‘clouds’.
- * Mirror draw. Draw mirrored symmetrical forms in realtime.
- * Capture real colour. Use your web camera as a live colour palette.
- * Randomise. Mess up and distort shapes.
- Global Features
- Other global features place focus on the ‘process’ of drawing, letting you do things like:
- * Record a drawing ’session’. Automatically save the contents of the canvas to a page in a PDF file at set intervals.
- * Auto-clear the canvas. Start drawing on a clean slate at set intervals. Force yourself to start over fresh.
- * Switch the canvas. Automatically open your sketch in a more ‘conventional’ drawing application, either as a bitmap or vector file.
- * Avoid distraction. Alchemy has a very minimal interface, just a simple toolbar that dissapears magically, and a fullscreen mode to block everything else out.
- To take a good look at what Alchemy can (and can not) do, check out the Videos section.
- Documentation
- Forum
- Mailing List
- Workshops
- Videos
- Tutorials
- Artwork
- Pencil
- 2d prog for quick "animation/motion brainstorming"
- It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics.
- just draw 2 pics which symbol some motion and you
can do very quick anim tests, to get a feeling of the shot you plan
- User Manual
- Why?
- Forum
- Screenshots
- Gallery
- drawpile
- a collaborative drawing program. DrawPile is a drawing program that allows multiple people to draw on the same picture at the same time. DrawPile offers simple drawing tools geared towards sketching and has support for tablet pressure sensitivity.
the application features 2 distinct modules: a Host and a client module. The graphic interface is intuitive and the layout doesn't hinder the user.
When not connected or hosting a server DrawPile acts as any other image editor.
DrawPile can read and save multiple file formats including bmp, pbm, png, ppm and xbm.
It also features an annotation tool. The annotation tool is pretty much like the text tool in other drawing programs, except the text always floats above the actual image. Because DrawPile doesn't have its own image format (yet), the annotations cannot be saved. They can, however, be burned onto the image (in offline mode only, more on that below.)
The server is QT based (no more other external dependencies) and built as a shared library that can be embedded inside the client and in a tiny standalone shell. One nice feature is the ability to buffer raster data and drawing commands. The server can then efficiently handle new clients with minimal disturbance to other users, and is more robust to boot. As the manual is in the fucking dockbook format which newalz nothin in ubuntu can read, I converted it to html, you can find it in ~/Documents/2d/drawpile - Feature highlights
- * Antialiased drawing and multiple blending modes
- * Layers
- * Text annotations
- * Tablet pressure sensitivity
- * Image may be rotated freely while drawing
- * Built-in server for hosting shared sessions
- * Chat
- getdeb.net > App > DrawPile
- Blog of author
- Documentation (local, not available from web)
- qaquarelle
- Scribus
- Scribus is an open source DTP application for Linux and other flavors of Unix and Unix-like systems, including Mac OS X , OS/2 and eComStation respectively, and Windows. The Scribus Wiki has been created in order to give users a place to put HOWTOs, tips and hints on using Scribus and DTP.
- Documentation
- FAQ
- Tutorials
- youtube
- blogs/forums
- manpage
- ScribusNG (1.3.5svn)
- passepartout
- an Open Source Desktop Publishing application. The goal is to provide a simple and user-friendly, yet powerful tool for creating printed material. Passepartout combines a WYSIWYG layout editor with a high-quality typesetting engine.
You do not use Passepartout for writing text, because it is only a layout editor. Basically speaking, Passepartout is in the business of taking the different parts that make up a page, such as text, photos, graphics, and "gluing" them on piece of paper. Passepartout can import from several different bitmapped image formats as well as EPS files. You write the text in your favorite text editor (e.g. Emacs or VI) in an XML-based format. The XML file is then typeset using a typesetting engine called xml2ps.
- Phatch
- Phatch is a simple to use cross-platform GUI Photo Batch Processor which handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies. Phatch can batch resize, rotate, apply perspective, shadows, rounded corners, ... and more in minutes instead of hours or days if you do it manually. Phatch allows you to use EXIF and IPTC tags for renaming and data stamping. Phatch also supports a console version to batch photos on webservers.
- documentation
- support
- forum
- features
- screenshot
- Phatch: batch power without bash hassle
- gpiciew
- cool picture viewer
- Features
* Extremely lightweight and fast with low memory usage
* Very suitable for default image viewer of desktop system
* Simple and intuitive interface
* Minimal lib dependency: Only pure GTK+ is used
* Desktop independent: Doesn't require any specific desktop environment
* Open source, licensed under GNU GPL - wiki.lxde.org > En > GPicView
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