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A Guide to Inkscape - Online Book - A work-in-progress Inkscape reference book; includes tutorials. (2005)
Album - An easy-to-use HTML photo album generator that supports themes.
Browsers with PNG Support - A handy list of standard 2-D browsers that support PNG; each entry includes links to the homepage or the download section and operating system or platform.
Cairo: A Vector Graphics Library - A 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices.
Cthumb - An application to create themable web picture albums, i.e. collections of digital pictures, with small thumbnail pictures with captions. Latest stable release is 4.2, 2002-08-13. N.B.: No more active development as of 2007-01.
Dia - a drawing program - A gtk+- based diagram creation program for GNOME.
DiaCanvas Homepage on SourceForge - Full-featured diagramming canvas for GNOME.
Enblend - A command-line tool that blends away the seams in a panoramic image mosaic using a multi-resolution spline.
Endlos - A platform independent, multi-threaded fractal generator.
F-Spot - A photo management system for GNOME.
FlamingText - A tool for creating free (as in beer only) custom images (buttons, banners, fonts, and ClipArt) for websites and email.
FreeMind - Free Mind Mapping Software - A cross-platform application that helps the user organize, link, and integrate thoughts with special features including one-click "fold / unfold" and "follow link" operations.
GFXIndex - A small, configurable program that generates indices of pictures by creating thumbnails (mini versions of the pictures) and a set of HTML files. Latest release is 2.0, 2004-07-23.
GMT - The Generic Mapping Tools - An open source collection of ~60 tools for manipulating geographic and Cartesian data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and producing Encapsulated PostScript File (EPS) illustrations ranging from simple x-y plots via contour maps to artificially illuminated surfaces and 3-D perspective views. Latest release is 4.1.3, 2006-06-01.
Gallery :: Your Photos On Your Website - An online photo album organizer.
Gifsicle: Animated GIFs for UNIX - A UNIX command-line tool for creating, editing, and getting information about GIF images and animations. Latest release is 1.48, 2007-03-16.
Gnofract 4D - An advanced fractal generation program for GNOME; latest stable release: 3.0, 2006-06-25.
Graphviz - Graph visualization software; this is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks.
Hugin - Panorama Tools GUI - Cross-platform software to view, create, edit and remap panoramic images; available in many languages. Based on PanoTools, which is no longer being developed.
IBM DeveloperWorks: Linux Zone: Graphics from the command Line - An introdution to command-line tools for image manipulation with ImageMagick. (2003)
ImPress - WYSIWYG layout program - Especially designed for Linux; good for tool for editing postscript files. Latest version: 1.1, 2000, but the next version is in the works (this will be the last). (2005)
ImageMagick - A free software suite to create, convert, edit, and compose bitmap images.
Imc - the Image Compiler - Supports GIF, JPEG, and PNG images.
ImgSeek - A photo collection manager and viewer with content-based search and many other features. Latest release is 0.8.6, 2006-01-24.
Inkscape - Draw Freely - A scalable vector graphics editor; available in many languages.
KPhotoAlbum - A KDE image database; formerly called KimDaBa.
KToon - 2D animation tool kit.
Kallery - An image gallery generator for KDE.
Kflickr: Welcome to the Kflickr Homepage - A stand-alone flickr.com photo uploader for KDE.
KolourPaint - A free, open source, easy-to-use paint program for the KDE desktop.
Kpl Homepage - Graphing program which provides two and three dimensional graphical presentations of data sets and functions.
Krita - A painting and photo image editing application for the KDE-based KOffice suite. "Krita" is the Swedish word for "crayon" and "Rita" is also Swedish for "draw".
LibAfterImage Imaging Library. - A generic image manipulation library. Current release is 1.07.
LinPHA -- The PHP Photo Archive - A multi-lingual, flexible photo archive written in PHP. Latest release is 1.2.0, 2006-09-02.
Linux Arts - A new (2007) online Linux community website for art and theme lovers.
LinuxArtist.org - A Linux art and design resource site. Information on 2D, 3D, audio, video/animation, the Gimp, fonts, game development, hardware, and povray.
LittleCms - A cross-platform colour management system.
MapTools.org - A resource site for developers and users of open source mapping software; many mapping projects, organized by broad subject categories, are hosted on this site
Metapixel - A Photomosaic Generator - A command-line program that generates both classical and collage-style photomosaics. Latest release is 1.0.2, 12-10-2006.
Netpbm Homepage - Collection of graphics file converters.
Open Clip Art Library - A large archives of clip art for users of open source applications such as Inkscape, Skencil, and Sodipodi.
OpenEXR - High dynamic-range (HDR) image file format for use in computer imaging applications.
OutSide Photos - A PHP-based image upload and management system, with thumbnail generation, slideshow mode and support for multiple users.
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Home Site - One of the best sites for locating information, applications and code related to the PNG image format.
Photogenics - graphics/art package - Proprietary software.
Pixcon Graphics SDK - A cross-platform software development suite designed to promote the rapid development software - particularly, games, high- end renderings, and 2D/3D visualization software via a set of utilities and libraries. Latest stable release is 3.00, 2005-07-28.
PyX - Python graphics package - A Python package for the creation of encapsulated PostScript figures.
RasMol and OpenRasMol - A molecular graphics visualisation tool
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) - librsvg - A library that allow applications to render SVG vector graphics. Used by the GNOME desktop; includes GNOME themes.
Skencil, a Vector Drawing Program - A Python-based interactive vector drawing appliction for Linux and UNIX; formerly called Sketch (prior to January, 2004).
Sodipodi - Vector based drawing program.
Surf - Visualization of Algebraic Geometry - A tool to visualize algebraic curves and algebraic surfaces. Latest release is 1.0.4, 2003-05-30.
Tgif - Drawing Tool - An Xlib-based, interactive 2-D drawing tool under X11 on Linux and most UNIX platforms.
The JChemPaint Homepage - An editor for 2D molecular structures. Latest stable release is 2.2.1, 2006-03-12.
The State of Linux Graphics - A review article about the current state of Linux desktop graphics. (2005)
The flPhoto Homepage - A basic image management and display program based on the FLTK toolkit.
The gif2png home page - Software to convert files from the Graphic Interchange Format (GIF) to the Portable Network Graphics (PNG).
The kalbum Homepage - A KDE3 tool for creating albums from a collection of images with an easy-to-use thumbnail interface.
Themes/Freshmeat - Everything you ever wanted to know about themes can be found here; formerly themes.org .
XFIG Drawing Program for the X Window System - The main resource site for XFig, an interactive drawing program for the X Window system.
XFIG, FIG and Associated Software - A vector drawing format which can be used with programs such as xfig to produce simple figures for documents.
XFig User Manual - A documentation guide for XFig. Latest version is 3.2.5, 2007-03-31. Also available in Japanese.
XITE (X- Based Image Processing Tools & Environment) - Display programs with image widget and graphical user interface as well as more than 200 command line programs and 600 subroutines, all documented on-line.