Graphic Design

Image Manipulation and Raster Graphics

Gimp

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It's a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything.

Krita

Krita is the full-featured free digital painting studio for artists who want to create professional work from start to end. Krita is used by comic book artists, illustrators, concept artists, matte and texture painters and in the digital VFX industry. Krita has several features that are unique or a first among free software painting applications: support for colorspaces other than RGB, like CMYK, support for HDR painting, painting assistants, a perspective grid. The Krita community aims to make Krita the best painting application for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists.

Project Dogwaffle 1.2

Project Dogwaffle lets you be creative without the fear of mom or wifey yelling at you because you messed up your clothes again. No sudden spills, no funny fumes. You can paint, erase it, and try again. This freeware version is based on the powerful achitecture of Project Dogwaffle 2.0. It's a light, yet powerful tool for artistic expression. Dogwaffle 1.2 is not just a stripped-down save-disabled time-expiring trial demo of our full software - it's a fully functional version with some new features too. It is not save-disabled, there's no time-limit, no need to register, and there's no spyware or adware coming with it.

Draw and Vector Graphics

Inkscape

Inkscape is professional quality vector graphics software which runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It is used by design professionals and hobbyists worldwide, for creating a wide variety of graphics such as illustrations, icons, logos, diagrams, maps and web graphics. Inkscape has sophisticated drawing tools with capabilities comparable to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDRAW and Xara Xtreme. It can import and export various file formats, including SVG, AI, EPS, PDF, PS and PNG.

Desktop Publishing and Page Layout Design

Scribus

Scribus is an Open Source DTP (Desktop Publishing) application for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows 2000 or later. Scribus has evolved into one of the premier Open Source desktop applications.

Font Design

FontForge

FontForge is a FOSS font editor which supports many common font formats. FontForge is free software and is distributed under a mix of the GNU General Public License Version 3 and the 3-clause BSD license.

Icon Creation

Liquid Icon XP

LiquidIcon XP is one of the most popular Icon Editors in the world. Best of all, it's completely FREE (no Adware, Spyware, Guaranteed), portable and lightweight, and works on every version of Windows!
Free Educational Software

Free Education Resources

Free Software for Teaching and Learning

Along with curating the best free software for creativity on the web I also like to play with design and code. As a former interactive media teacher, and teacher trainer in e-learning, it was a way of keeping myself active outside of the classroom. As a result here are a few tools I created in response to personal, student or teaching needs. If you find them useful please download, keep and share.

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