Check out the varied sources of images (Flickr, your own photos, glyphs (type) and even iTune album covers.) Plenty of nifty features to explore, and its a bit magical to watch an image first appear and refine over time. These applications offer particular, sometimes narrow capabilities to the artist, photographer or designer. dmg available) Specialty Graphics Software: ( Linux/UNIX, Mac OS X, OS/2 and Windows ) Program's main goal is to provide flexible layout and typesetting together with ability to prepare files for professional quality image setting equipment. Scribus is a an open-source DTP application with a modern and user friendly interface. I’m not clear how active the development is currently.) This is not really a professional graphics environment, but a program that is integrated with other office applications for adding, say, pictures to a Powerpoint-like presentation or to a word-processing document.ĭTP Desktop Publishing (ala InDesign or Quark xPress) Chart, Impress, Draw integrate with Write, Calc, Base and Math to provide word processing, spreadsheet, database and mathematical formula editing.

Open Office (ala Microsoft Office Suite – Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.)ĭraw, the graphics program is a bit like Illustrator (a bit). InkScape notes for Adobe Illustrator users.

It is built on SVG rather than on Adobe's Postscript, but the web is likely to move towards SVG-capable browsers. Inkscape offers a rather full-featured drawing application. Drawing Applications: (ala Adobe Illustrator) MyPaint (limited functionality Win/Linux only) Runs on KDE - (designed for Unix/Linux, but available for Mac/Win) (must load KDE installer before Krita can be installed…I think) (Linux only? Mac install for the technically literate?) GIMPshop refines the GIMP interface to look and feel still more like Adobe’s Photoshop, trading off some speed and features. It has been developed for a long time, and continues to improve, racing alongside Photoshop.Īdmittedly Photoshop is more refined and likely more stable, but there are GIMP users who simply prefer it. GIMP (Graphics Image Processing) is a close to a legally free copy of Photoshop that you’re likely to find. How many alternatives are there to Photoshop?

Photo/Image Editing: (ala Adobe Photoshop) Graphics Applications ( last update 2007?) Sites that track, review or recommend graphics software: Open Source and Free Graphics Software Open Source and Free Graphics Software

Gimp vs inkscape for photos