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Animata is an open source real-time animation software, designed to create animations, interactive background projections for concerts, theatre and dance performances.

A menu-based commandline script that does standard conversions on image directories.

Crystal Space is a free cross-platform software development kit for realtime 3D graphics and in particular games. Officially supports Linux, OSX and Windows.

"Envy" is an application for Ubuntu Linux and Debian written in Python and PyGTK which will detect and install the proper drivers for your graphic card.

Online Graphics Editor

We all love Adobe, but not all of us can afford the retail pricing. Here's a list of graphics tools as an alternatives to Adobe.

Free graphics manipulation program similar to Adobe Photoshop.

Gather/visualize data online

A web-based tool to design, manage and send

Vector graphics design software.

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

LibreOffice is the free Open Source personal productivity suite for Windows, Macintosh and Linux, that gives you six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base.

Support for editing, managing, enhancing, and sharing photos. Includes tools for photo corrections, retouching, and color correction. Common editing tasks can be recorded and used on multiple photos. Also includes set of drawing and painting tools.

Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Picasa also makes advanced editing simple, and makes it easy to share your pictures; you can email, print photos home, make gift CDs, and even post pictures.

Pixel is a RGB, CMYK and HDR image editing, photo retouching, graphics manipulating and animation program

Almost as good as Photoshop. And its online, fast AND free...what more!

Tableau spun out of Stanford University with VizQL™, a technology that completely changes working with data by allowing simple drag and drop functions to create sophisticated visualizations. The fundamental innovation is a patented query language that translates your actions into a database query and then expresses the response graphically.

Multimedia viewer, converter and browser, free for nonprofit use.