You can start using GIMP by trying simple tasks, such as cropping and resizing images, and over time work into a deep set of functionality. GIMP is a solid program for photo manipulation, basic graphic creation, and illustration. GIMP celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2015, making it one of the oldest open source creative applications out there. One thing to note: If you'd like to install brushes or other extensions to each Flatpak version of the app, the directory to drop the extensions in will be under the directory corresponding to the application inside the ~/.var/app directory. Nightly builds of each of these applications are available via Flatpak by following the instructions for Nightly Graphics Apps. If you'd like to follow new developments more closely, and perhaps even help out by testing the latest development versions of the first four of these applications-GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, and MyPaint-you can install them easily on Linux using Flatpak. These applications are so widely known, I've also included highlights of the latest features available that you may have missed if you don't closely follow their development. All six applications are cross-platform each is available on Linux, OS X, and Windows, although in some cases the Linux versions are the most quickly updated. They are well-established, mature projects with full feature sets, stable releases, and active development communities. These six applications are the juggernauts of open source design tools.

Open source tools have evolved a lot in the past few years, so let's take a tour of 2016 landscape. Welcome to the communityĪ few years ago, I gave a lightning talk at Red Hat Summit that took attendees on a tour of the 2012 open source creative tools landscape.

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