Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Software

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Software

This is a selection of programs designed to aid in graphics manipulation, as recommended by the Wikigraphists and Graphic Lab. These programs are considered very useful tools for the tasks of cleaning up, editing and creation of images, illustrations, maps, photographs and animations.

Experienced Wikigraphists, several of them having improved their skills on the Graphics Lab itself, will be able to offer advice and assistance in the use of these programs, although each program usually has its own dedicated forums and tutorials that can be found online. A search with the strings constructed from the name of the program, followed by 'forum' or 'tutorial', will usually achieve desirable results.

	Name and Function	Operating System	Download
1	Inkscape, Specialising in the creation of vector images (SVG)	Linux ; Windows ; Mac OS X	All
2	GIMP, similar to Photoshop. Used for the retouching of images, and creating of raster graphics (PNG, JPG, GIF). Can also be used to create animations when the GIMP Animation Package (GAP) is installed.	Linux; BSD ; Solaris ; Windows ; Mac OS X	Windows, Linux/BSD/Solaris Mac OSX
OR	Gimpshop, A version of GIMP, modified to be more familiar to users of Photoshop, and said to have a less steep learning curve. (PNG, JPG, GIF)	Windows ; Linux ; Mac OS X ; Solaris	All
3	hugin, For the stitching of panorama images, correction of perspective and various other things.	Windows; Linux ;BSD ; Mac OS X; Other Unix Systems	All
4	Blender, For the creation and editing of 3D images.	Windows; Linux x86/PPC ; Solaris ; Irix ; BSD ; Mac OS X	All