This series of articles will recommend some open source tools and applications for daily use scenarios such as office, design, entertainment, and education, hoping to be helpful to everyone. There are too many excellent ones, and the space is limited, only a few are listed, and more search tools that can use OSC can be found. If you like, please follow, favorite, comment, and reward~~
Part 1: Open source tools and applications suitable for daily use (office articles)
Part 2: Design
- Graphic Design / Graphic Design
- Web Design/Web Development
- CAD design
- Film and Television Design/Video Editing
1. Graphic Design / Graphic Design
1 、Krita
Krita is a free and open source drawing tool designed specifically for concept artists, illustrators, texture artists, and the VFX industry. Krita has been in development for over 10 years and it provides many common and innovative features to help newbies and professionals alike.
Krita has a total of 9 unique brush engines to customize brushes. Each engine has a large number of setting options, and each brush engine is designed to meet a specific need, such as color smear engine, shape engine, particle engine, filter engine, etc. You can also save used brush settings and organize them with a unique tagging system.
Open Source License: GPL
2、MyPaint
MyPaint is an image painting program that supports pressure-sensitive drawing tablets and comes with an easy-to-use brush collection. There is a sophisticated interface for creating your own brushes, focusing on brush dynamics (variable speed, pressure, or random). The size of the canvas is unlimited, and undo and layers are supported.
MyPaint's brushes can mimic styles like charcoal, pencil, ink or paint, and it supports graphics tablets made by Wacom, as well as many similar devices. Its brushes are universal and configurable, making them very efficient and practical.
Open Source License: GPL
3、GIMP
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. Including almost all the functions required for image processing, known as PhotoShop under Linux. It is also cross-platform supported by a huge online community and can be easily installed on Windows.
GIMP has been popular with many drawing enthusiasts when the Linux system was launched. Its interface is quite light, but its functions are not inferior to professional drawing software; it provides a variety of image processing tools, filters, and many more The component module is a very convenient and easy-to-use drawing software for making a cool and dazzling web button or website logo.
Open Source License: GPL
4、Scribus
Scribus can be regarded as a PDF layout and editing tool, or it can be an open source electronic magazine production software similar to Adobe Pagemaker, which can be used to create electronic documents of personal files, mailing lists, and electronic magazines.
Scribus is small in size and can be placed in a USB flash drive, plugged into a computer, and ready to use. Currently supports Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Debian GNU / Hurd, Mac OS X, OS / 2 Warp 4, eComStation, Haiku, Windows and other systems.
Open Source License: GPL
5、Inkscape
Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editing software, similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, Xara X, etc. It uses the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format and supports shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha SVG features such as blends, transforms, gradients, patterns, compositions, and more.
Inkscape also supports Creative Commons metadata, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text wrapping paths, flowing text, direct XML editing, and more. It can import JPEG, PNG, TIFF and other formats, and output to PNG and various vector formats.
Open Source License: GPL
6、ImageMagick
ImageMagick is a software for creating, editing, and compositing pictures, it can read, convert, and write pictures in a variety of formats. Use it to cut pictures, replace colors, apply various effects, or draw text, straight lines, polygons, ellipses, and curves.
ImageMagick supports most operating systems, utilizes multiple computing threads to improve performance, and can read, process or write images of mega, giga or terahertz pixel sizes.
Open Source License: GPL
7、AlloyImage
AlloyImage is an open source project launched by Tencent Web front-end AlloyTeam. It is a web-based online image processing engine. In addition to the core underlying image processing engine, it also integrates some convenient and fast image processing APIs, which can be easily and quickly referenced in web pages. Makes the same effect as in PhotoShop.
AlloyImage provides composite effects such as sketch, lomo, and retro, including 17 layer blending modes corresponding to PS, as well as various filter functions such as decolorization, inversion, Gaussian blur, sharpening, and embossing. An online version is also available - AlloyPhoto .
Open Source License: GPL
Blender is an open source 3D creation suite that supports entire 3D pipeline modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, and even video editing and game creation. It has cross-platform features, supports FreeBSD, IRIX, GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris, and SkyOS, etc.
Blender's main cycle rendering engine is a very powerful built-in unbiased path tracing engine, providing surreal rendering capabilities. Real-time preview
, CPU and GPU rendering, support for PBR shaders and HDR, and trendy VR rendering support.
Open Source License: GPL
2. Web Design/Web Development
1、Aptana Studio
AptanaStudio is an Eclipse-based integrated Web development environment best known for its very powerful JavaScript editor and debugger. It's an "open source development tool for the open web", which in practice means it's more of a specialized web development high-level IDE.
AptanaStudio can support a variety of AJAX and JavaScript toolboxes, including JavaScript editing and debugging. In addition, Aptana has also absorbed the Radrails project, adding very powerful RubyonRails support. It also has full-featured iPhone integrated development capabilities, as well as support for Adobe's AIR development environment.
Open Source License: GPL
2、BlueGriffon
BlueGriffon is a WYSIWYG editor powered by Gecko, the same rendering engine included in Mozilla Firefox. It is a derivative of the now discontinued HTML editor Nvu, supporting HTML5 and CSS for modern components.
BlueGriffon is available for most major platforms, including Windows 7, 8 and 10, OS X >= 10.8, Ubuntu 16.04 32-bit and 64-bit, and supports Simplified Chinese. The software is open source, and the user manual is free.
Open Source License: GPLv2
3、Firebug
Firebug is a development plug-in under Firefox, and is now one of the five-star strongly recommended plug-ins for Firefox. It integrates HTML viewing and editing, Javascript console, network health monitor, and is a powerful assistant for developing JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax.
Firebug analyzes the internal details of Web pages from different angles, which brings great convenience to Web developers.
Open Source License: BSD
4、Adobe Brackets
Brackets is Adobe's open source HTML/CSS/JavaScript IDE. Brackets currently provides binary distributions of the latest stable versions for Mac, Windows, and Linux (Debian/Ubuntu).
Brackets is a lightweight, yet powerful text editor. It integrates visualization tools into the editor to get the help you need without compromising the creative process.
Open Source License: MIT
3. CAD design
1、FreeCAD
FreeCAD is a feature-based parametric 3D modeler for CAD, MCAD, CAx, CAE, and PLM, aimed directly at mechanical engineering and product design, but also for broader engineering applications such as architecture or other engineering disciplines. It is completely open source and extremely modular, allowing for very advanced extensions and customizations.
FreeCAD supports multiple platforms, including Windows, Mac, and Linux, and can read and write many file formats, such as STEP, IGES, STL, SVG, DXF, OBJ, IFC, DAE, and more.
Open Source License: GPL
2、LibreCAD
LibreCAD, formerly known as CADuntu, was built on the community version of QCad and refactored with Qt4. Native support for Mac OSX, Windows and Linux.
LibreCAD is 2D, its interface may look familiar to those who have used AutoCAD, and by default it uses the AutoCAD DXF format to import and save, although it can also use other formats.
Open Source License: GPL
3 、BRL-CAD
BRL-CAD is a cross-platform CAD tool that dates back to 1979, originally developed by Mike Muuss at the Army Research Laboratory, and has been used by the US military for decades to model weapon systems, but has also been used for more of everyday design tasks, from academic to industrial design to health applications.
BRL-CAD is a Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) Solid Model Computer Aided Design (CAD) system. Includes an interactive geometry editor, optical tracing support for graphics shading and geometry analysis, computer network distributed frame buffer support, image processing and signal processing tools that can perform geometry editing, geometry analysis, support for distributed networks, and can perform image processing and signal processing.
Open source license: BSD/LGPL
4. Film and Television Design/Video Editing
1、Kdenlive
Kdenlive is a set of open source video non-linear editing software that can edit video files in all formats through FFmpeg, which means that DV, HDV, mpeg, avi, mp4, mov, flv, ogg, wav, mp3 and vorbis are all formats is supported.
Kdenlive is primarily aimed at GNU/Linux platforms, but also works on BSD and MacOS. It is currently being ported to Windows as a GSOC project.
Open Source License: GPL
2、PiTiVi
PiTiVi is an open source video editing software written in Python and based on GStreamer and GTK+. Suitable for novices to editing video, as well as professionals. It provides a timeline for full control over the video.
PiTiVi also has a plug-in system to extend existing functionality, such as creating slideshows, editing subtitles, and more.
Open Source License: LGPL
3、LiVES
LiVES is a simple-to-use yet powerful video effect, editing, converting and playback software. It's designed to be simple to use, yet powerful. It lets you start editing and producing videos right away without worrying about format, frame size or frame rate.
LiVES is a very flexible tool for mixing and switching clips from the keyboard, using dozens of real-time effects, trimming and editing clips in the Clip Editor, and bringing them together using the multi-track timeline. Performances can even be recorded in real-time and then edited further or presented immediately.
Open Source License: GPL
4、Ardour
Ardour is a digital audio workstation that you can use to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. It can make your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just try out new ideas, music and sounds.
Ardour features include: multi-channel recording, non-destructive editing, unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/buses/plugins, timecode sync, and more.
Open Source License: GPL
to be continued.