Top 5 Free Linux Graphics and Designer Softwares

Posted by max On July - 19 - 2010

Linux being a free OS and a very strong and secure is preferred over Windows by the Web developers and Graphic animators. One major benefit of Linux Softwares is that most of them are available free of cost, making everyone use them to create high quality graphics and designs.

Here I’ll put some light on the Top 5 Free Linux Graphics and Designer Softwares.

Art of Illusion

Art of Illusion is free software for creating high quality images and graphics. One can even create best quality animations and moving images that can be made by joining multiple still images. The software is completely made in JAVA making it platform independent.

Download user manual for Art of Illusion for all the features and how one can use them.

CinePaint

Cine Paint

Like other softwares, CinePaint is one software that most of the web developers and graphic designers use. Basically CinePaint is a collection of multiple tools that are open source. It provides the functionalit provided by Adobe Photoshop except the fact that it is free.

You can see the tutorial of CinePiant and learn more about this software.

Xaraxtreme

Xara Xtreme

Xara Xtreme is an open source and a powerful software that provides the functionality similar to CorelDraw. It can be used in Linux, Unix and OS X making it a widely acceptable software.

You can have the documentation of XaraXtreme and the technical basics here.

QCAD

Qcad

Qcad is a computer aided drafting application that is used for 2D drawings. Qcad is being used by architects for professional drawings and building designs. It uses DXF as its standard file format. While other CAD packages are often complicated to use, QCad tries to be simple.

Download Qcad latest version here.

Get all Qcad documentation.

Skencil

Skencil is a vector drawing application that is used in illustration, diagrams and other sketching purposes. Skencil is implemented using Python. Python is an object oriented language, yet very easy to use.

Get Skencil User Guide here.