Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing and page layout designing software program. What do we recommend as a free and open source alternative?
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Category: Graphics
Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics editor and design program. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is a raster graphics editor. We recommend free and open source alternatives to Photoshop.
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Regards – modern photo viewer
Regards is billed as a modern photo viewer. It supports a very large range of formats including video.
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PosteRazor – create your own posters
PosteRazor cuts raster images into multipage PDF documents.
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Linux Candy: Evolvotron – interactive generative art software
Evolvotron is an interactive “generative art” application to evolve images/textures/patterns/animations.
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Image Deduplicator – find duplicate images
Image Deduplicator is a Python package that simplifies the task of finding exact and near duplicates in images.
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Terminal Image Viewer – display images in a terminal
Terminal Image Viewer is a small program to display images in a (modern) terminal using RGB ANSI codes and unicode block graphics characters. It’s free and open source software.
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Vooki – lightweight image viewer offering fast image preview
One of our favorite adages is “A picture is worth a thousand words”. It refers to the notion that a still image can convey a complex idea. Images can portray a lot of information quickly and more efficiently than text.
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ExifCleaner – image metadata tool
ExifCleaner lets you remove privacy-invading information from your photos. It’s a cross-platform tool that runs on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Streaming radio – Week 30
For this week’s blog, Luke conducts a detailed survey of open source internet radio players that purr on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Professionally manage your photo collection – Week 29
digiKam is billed as an advanced digital photo management program. Here’s my findings of digiKam on the Raspberry Pi 4.
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Raspberry Pi 4: Chronicling the Desktop Experience – Viewing Photos – Week 23
This week, I’m examining photo viewer software on the RPI4. There’s lots of open source photo viewers, so I focus on gThumb, feh, GPicView, and QuickViewer.
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fSpy – still image camera matching software
fSpy is a free and open source app for still image camera matching. fSpy is written in Typescript using Electron, React and Redux.
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Manage your Photos: JPEG Photo Compression
JPEG is an image file format that’s been around since the early 1990s, and it uses lossy compression. We compare and contrast Guetzli, MozJPEG, and Lepton. They are all open source tools that run from the command-line.
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