Parent: Applications

Graphics Applications

There are numerous number of graphics applications are available to Ubuntu users, from simple to complex. We are sure that you will find an application that does your job.

Some applications comes with default installation of Ubuntu. However, more are available in the repositories, and elsewhere in the from of deb packages or tar balls.

There are also many Open Source graphics resources are available to help you to get started, and helps on licensing your own content to distribute freely and openly, so that others can enjoy by using it.

Applications installed by default

• 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

• Istanbul - Desktop Session Video Recorder

• Mirage - A fast and simple image viewer

• Tux Paint - Award-winning painting program for children

• Xara Xtreme - Vector-based illustration program

• MeMaker - Creating Avatars

Applications available elsewhere

• Picasa - Photo management with intermediate-level editing features

• jBrout - JPEG photo management software

• VariCAD - A CAD/CAM package commercially available as a .deb file

• Bricscad - A commercial CAD/CAM package

• Tonido Photos - A peer-to-peer photo sharing and organizing application

See also

• UbuntuStudio, especially UbuntuStudio/Graphics

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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