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KolourPaint
KolourPaint is an easy-to-use paint program for the KDE desktop. You can use it
for tasks such as painting or drawing diagrams and editing screen shots, photos,
and icons. For more details, see http://kolourpaint.sourceforge.net/.
KPovmodeler
KPovmodeler is a POV-Ray front-end that integrates with the KDE desktop.
KPovmodeler does not require a detailed knowledge of POV-Ray scripting because
translates the POV-Ray language in an easy-to-understand tree view. Native POV-
Ray scripts can be imported to KPovmodeler as well. For more details, see
http://www.kpovmodeler.org.
Krita
Krita is KOffice's answer to Adobe Photoshop and The GIMP. It can be used for
pixel-based image creation and editing. Its features include many of the advanced
image editing capabilities you would normally expect with Adobe Photoshop or
The GIMP. For more details, see http://www.koffice.org/krita.
OpenOffice.org Draw
See OpenOffice.org
POV-Ray
POV-Ray (Persistence of Vision Raytracer) creates three-dimensional, photo-real-
istic images using a rendering technique called ray tracing. Because there is a
Windows version of POV-Ray, it does not take much for Windows users to switch
to the Linux version of this application. For more details, see
.povray.org/.
The GIMP
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an open source equivalent to Adobe
Photoshop. It is a raster graphics editor used to process digital graphics and pho-
tographs. For more details, see
Manipulating Graphics with The GIMP
VueScan
VueScan is a scanning software available for several platforms. You can install it
parallel to your vendor's scanner software. It supports the scanner's special hardware,
like batch scanning, autofocus, infrared channels for dust and scratch suppression,
and multiscan to reduce scanner noise in the dark areas of slides. It features simple
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