Open Source Raster Graphics Software

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program originally created for children ages 3 to 12, but enjoyed by all! It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. You're presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative. Along with paintbrush, shapes and text, Tux Paint includes a "stamp" feature to add pre-drawn or photographic imagery to pictures, and a set of "magic tools" that provide filter effects (like blur, tint and waves) and interesting drawing tools (like train tracks, bubbles and grass). Tux Paint includes a collection of "starter" images, both coloring-book style and photo-realistic, and a large collections of stamps are available as a separate download. Additional content can be added by parents & teachers, or downloaded from 3rd parties. Tux Paint is available for Windows, macOS, Android, Linux, & Haiku operating systems, among others.

Reference library for supporting the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format.

The Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) is an unofficial extension of the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format. APNG patch provides APNG support to libpng. APNG support was merged! https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng/pull/706

GraphicsMagick provides a set of commandline tools and programming APIs for manipulating, editing, and converting raster and vector images. It is derived from ImageMagick, with the objective of providing better stability and performance than ImageMagick while retaining the original MIT/X11 license.

FreeImage is a library project for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats (PNG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP and others). Some highlights are: extremely simple in use, not limited to the local PC (unique FreeImageIO) and Plugin driven!

mtPaint is a painting program designed for creating icons and pixel-based artwork. It can edit indexed palette or 24 bit RGB images and offers painting, palette, and image manipulation tools.

Pixelitor is a cross-platform raster graphics editor written in Java. It supports layers, layer masks, text layers, drawing, multiple undo, etc. It has more than 80 image filters and color adjustments, some of which are unique.

An upstream source site housing the original files for this mirror is no longer available. GIMPshop is a modification of the free/open source GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), intended to replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop. Its primary purpose is to make users of Photoshop feel comfortable using GIMP. It shares all GIMP's advantages, including the long feature list and customisability, while addressing some common criticisms regarding the program's interface: GIMPshop modifies the menu structure to closely match Photoshop's, adjusts the program's terminology to match Adobe's, and, in the Windows version, uses a plugin called 'Deweirdifier' to combine the application's numerous windows in a similar manner to the MDI system used by most Windows graphics packages. While GIMPshop does not support Photoshop plugins, all GIMP's own plugins, filters, brushes, etc. remain available

ImageMagick® is a free and open-source software suite for displaying, converting, and editing raster image and vector image files. It can read and write over 200 image file formats, and can support a wide range of image manipulation operations, such as resizing, cropping, and color correction. ImageMagick is written in C and is available for a wide range of operating systems, including Linux, macOS, and Windows. It can be used as a standalone application, or as a library that can be integrated into other software programs. Overall, ImageMagick is a powerful and versatile software suite for displaying, converting, and editing image files. Its support for scripting and automation, along with its other features, make it a valuable tool for a wide range of image-related tasks.

CinePaint 1.4.4 Windows version released 2021/5/6. Linux and MacOS versions coming. CinePaint is a deep paint image retouching tool that supports higher color fidelity than ordinary painting tools. CinePaint opens high fidelity image file formats such as DPX, 16-bit TIFF, and OpenEXR, and conventional formats like JPEG and PNG. -- Robin Rowe CinePaint Project Manager Beverly Hills, California robin.rowe@cinepaint.org imdb.me/robinrowe 323-535-0952

Whyteboard is a painting whiteboard application for Linux and Windows, that allows the annotation of PDF and PostScript documents, and image files with common drawing tools.

CxImage is a C++ image processing library. It can load, save, display, transform images in a very simple and fast way, with transparency, multiple layers and selections, support for BMP GIF JPG PNG MNG TIF ICO TGA PCX J2K JBG RAS PNM RAW PSD

Box is a language specifically designed to make vector graphics easy plus a integrated development environment which facilitates the use of the language by interactively showing the graphical output. Box combines the convenience of drawing figures with the mouse with the convenience of describing them with a language tailored for vector graphics.

ImageStone is a powerful C++ class library for image manipulation. Its features include load, save, display, transformation, and nearly 100 special image effects. It can be used cross platform (includes Windows, Linux, Mac), and especially under windows it can be used as a DIB wrapper class.

PRICE: a high-quality image manipulation and enhancement application, also suitable as a multi-window image viewer. For GNUstep and Mac.

Jagent is a suite for manipulating Creatures 3 and Docking Station agents. It consists of a sprite tool (Edos) and a PRAY tool (Monk). It requires Java (http://java.com/)

Golden Crop is a Photoshop JS Script making cropping with respect to division rules (golden rule, 1/3 rule) very easy with visual guides. Requires installed Photoshop CS2, CS3, CS4 or CS5 (either x86 or amd64 version). Tested on Windows and Mac

Qaquarelle is the opensource Qt4-based graphical editor, whose goal is to provide the native way of painting with emulated traditional instruments, including the full support of tablet input and OpenGL-based processing in GPU.

JDraw is a pixel oriented graphics editor. It is entirely written in Java, easy to use and saves (animated) GIFs, JPEGs, ICOs (favicons) and PNGs. Requires J2SDK 1.4 or higher.

This tool gives the possibility to create FNT files, that can be used in VGA compatible text-mode.

Pixi image editor. Common features like: layers, im/export bmp/png/jpg/tga/tiff, scripted command interface, alpha, layers are worked on as floating points. Written using freepascal, and a work in progress. Modular design. Latest source in HG.

SIP is the image processing and computer vision package for SciLab, a free Matlab-like programming environment. SIP reads/writes images in formats like JPEG, PNG, and BMP. It does filtering, segmentation, edge detection, morphology, and shape analysis. Download from Git http://siptoolbox.sourceforge.net/devel

pano3 (or "pano cube") is an experimental, cross-platform, open source toolkit designed to agree with modern web standards such as HTML5, CSS3 and CSS3D. The pano3 viewer is now released as a jQuery plug-in based on 3d transformations supported by CSS3D. The desktop utilities are written in Java 1.7.

'Yet Another Paint' is a cross-platform drawing program written in Java.

Gimp User Filter is a plugin for The Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/), originally written by Jens Restemeier back in 1997. This project is about maintaining the plugin, keeping it compatible with current versions of Gimp, and eventually extending its features