Free graphics software

Rawstudio is a stand-alone software application to read and manipulate images in raw image formats from digital cameras.

Advanced Visualization Studio (AVS), is a music visualization plugin for Winamp.

ImageMagick is a free and open-source software suite for displaying, converting, and editing raster image and vector image files.

ImageJ is a public domain, Java-based image processing program developed at the National Institutes of Health.

GIMP /ɡɪmp/ (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, resizing, cropping, photo-montages, converting between different image formats, and more specialized tasks.

Inkscape is a free and open-source vector graphics editor; it can be used to create or edit vector graphics such as illustrations, diagrams, line arts, charts, logos and complex paintings.

libGDX is a free and open-source game-development application framework written in the Java programming language with some C and C++ components for performance dependent code.

The Persistence of Vision Raytracer, or POV-Ray, is a ray tracing program which generates images from a text-based scene description, and is available for a variety of computer platforms.

ROOT is an object-oriented program and library developed by CERN.

UFRaw (which stands for Unidentified Flying Raw) is an application which can read and manipulate photographs in raw image formats, as created by many digital cameras.

gPhoto is a set of software applications and libraries for use in digital photography.

Apophysis is an open source fractal flame editor and renderer for Microsoft Windows and Macintosh.

GraphicsMagick is a fork of ImageMagick, emphasizing stability of both programming API and command-line options.

K-3D is a free 3D modelling and animation software.

MilkDrop is an environment for running presets, software which controls MilkDrop, and does not produce visualizations by itself.

Pinta is an open-source, cross-platform bitmap image drawing and editing program inspired by Paint.

Netpbm is an open-source package of graphics programs and a programming library, used mainly in the Unix world.

Python Imaging Library (abbreviated as PIL) is a free library for the Python programming language that adds support for opening, manipulating, and saving many different image file formats.

matplotlib is a plotting library for the Python programming language and its numerical mathematics extension NumPy.

Hugin is a cross-platform open source panorama photo stitching and HDR merging program developed by Pablo d'Angelo and others.

gnuplot is a command-line program that can generate two- and three-dimensional plots of functions, data, and data fits.

Cinder is a programming library, designed to give the C++ language advanced visualization abilities.

Synfig Studio (also known as Synfig) is a free and open source 2D vector graphics and timeline-based computer animation program created by Robert Quattlebaum with additional contributions by Adrian Bentley.

Graphics Layout Engine (GLE) is a graphics scripting language designed for creating publication quality graphs, plots, diagrams, figures and slides.

Embroidermodder is a free machine embroidery software tool that supports a variety of formats and allows the user to add custom modifications to their embroidery designs.

FlashDP (pronounced as Flash D.P.) is a mobile web application for creating custom animated graphics.

Xara Xtreme LX was an open source version of the commercial 2D vector graphics editor Xara Xtreme.

Plotly, also known by its URL, Plot.

EGL is an interface between Khronos rendering APIs (such as OpenGL, OpenGL ES or OpenVG) and the underlying native platform windowing system.

Paintbrush is a raster image editor for Mac OS X.

OsiriX is an image processing application for Mac dedicated to DICOM images (".dcm" / ".DCM" extension) produced by equipment (MRI, CT, PET, PET-CT, ...).

Canva is an online graphic design platform.

The ESA/ESO/NASA FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) Liberator is a free software program for processing and editing astronomical science data in the FITS format to reproduce images of the universe.

LightZone is a free, open source digital photo editor software application.

Scrot is a minimalistic command line screen capturing application.

GOCR (or JOCR) is a free optical character recognition program, initially written by Jörg Schulenburg.

Little CMS or LCMS is an open source color management system, released as a software library for use in other programs which will allow the use of International Color Consortium profiles.

pngcrush is a free and open source command-line utility for optimizing PNG image files.

G'MIC is a free and open-source framework for image processing.

YaDICs is a program written to perform digital image correlation on 2D and 3D tomographic images.

Toonloop is a software application for live stop-motion animation.

Seashore is an image editor for Mac OS X that is based on the technology of GIMP, with a clean user interface (using Cocoa).

AutoREALM is an open source program designed to draw maps for role-playing games, mainly in fantasy settings.

RawTherapee is a cross-platform raw image processing program, released under the GNU General Public License Version 3.

Skencil, formerly called Sketch, is a free software vector graphics editor, released under the GNU Lesser General Public License.

CloudCompare is a 3D point cloud processing software (such as those obtained with a laser scanner).

CombineZ is Free software image processing software package for creating extended depth of field images.

MeshLab is an advanced 3D mesh processing software system that is oriented to the management and processing of unstructured large meshes and provides a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering, and converting these kinds of meshes.

DrQueue is an open source software tool used to manage a render farm.

AV Linux is a Linux-based operating system aimed for multimedia content creators.