Graphics Applications

There are a vast number of graphics applications available to Ubuntu users. From the simple to the complex, you're sure to find a program that does the job.

A number of applications come with the default installation of Ubuntu. However, more are available in the repositories, and elsewhere.

There are also many open/free graphics resources available to help you get started, and help on licensing your own content freely so that other people can enjoy and use it.

Applications included in a default installation of Ubuntu

• Evince - Document Viewer for PDF and PostScript files

• Eye of GNOME - Image Viewer

• F-Spot - Photo Library

• gThumb - Image Viewer

• OpenOffice.org Draw - Images and diagrams creation and manipulation

• The GIMP - Advanced image creation and manipulation

• XSane - Scanner application

Applications in the repositories

• Agave - Color schemer

• Blender - 3-D Modelling

• Dia - Diagrams

• digiKam - A KDE friendly Photo Management Application

• feh - An image viewer at heart, though it does other cool stuff

• Gcolor2 - Simple color picker

• GNUpaint - Simple painting program

• ImageMagick - Graphics editing

• Inkscape - Vector graphics

• Mirage - A fast and simple image viewer

• Tux Paint - Award-winning painting program for children

• Xara Xtreme - Vector-based illustration program

Applications available elsewhere

• Picasa - Photo management with intermediate-level editing features

• jBrout - JPEG photo management software

External links

Artwork

• GNOME Art - Community of artists based around the GNOME desktop.

• The Open Clipart Library - a collection of Free clipart.

• Flickr Creative Commons - Creative Commons-licensed works on Flickr.

• Tango Desktop Project - Project offering guidelines on styling icons and graphics for open-source software.

Licensing your Work

• Free Software Foundation License List - note: 'There is literally no specific freedom that all Creative Commons licenses grant'

• Free Art License

• Creative Commons - Non-profit organisation offering flexible copyright licenses for creative works

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2008-07-23, Duncan Lithgow said: I've created a project page to use for discussion on improving pages like this one: Application Documentation Project

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