Task
Professional Graphic
Editing
Creating Vector Graph-
ics
SVG Editing
Creating 3D Graphics
Managing Digital Pho-
tographs
Scanning
Image Viewing
Blender
Blender is a powerful rendering and animation tool available on many platforms,
including Windows, MacOS, and Linux. For more details see
.blender.org/.
Dia
Dia is the Linux equivalent of Visio. It supports many types of special diagrams,
such as network or UML charts. Export formats include SVG, PNG, and EPS. To
support your own custom diagram types, provide the new shapes in a special XML
format. For more details see http://projects.gnome.org/dia/.
digiKam
digiKam is a smart digital photo management tool for the KDE desktop. Importing
and organizing your digital images is a matter of a few clicks. Create albums, add
tags to spare you from copying images around different subdirectories, and eventu-
ally export your images to your own Web site. For more details see
Windows Application
Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop
Pro, Corel PhotoPaint, The
GIMP
Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw,
Freehand
WebDraw, Freehand, Adobe
Illustrator
3D Studio MAX, Maya, POV-
Ray, Blender
Software provided by the
camera manufacturer
Vuescan
ACDSee
Linux Application
The GIMP, Krita
OpenOffice.org Draw,
Inkscape, Dia
Inkscape, Dia, Kivio
POV-Ray, Blender,
KPovmodeler
DigiKam, f-spot
Vuescan, The GIMP
gwenview, gThumb, Eye
of Gnome, f-spot
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