Graphic Design

Gimp (GNU image manipulation program) is an immersive free open source cross-platform tool for graphics design and photo editing. It’s one of the most popular feature-rich open source tools for image authoring, photo retouching and image composition that’s accessible on GNU, Windows, macOS, and some of the best Linux distros.

Krita is a great free, open source vector graphics creator that focuses majorly on digital illustration and painting. It’s mainly used by comic book designers, illustrators, concept artists, matte and texture artists, in the VFX industry.

Gravit Designer is a full-featured free, open source vector design toolkit from the creators of Corel Draw. The app is supported on Windows, Linux, macOS, and browser platforms. It is ideal for multi-purpose image editing and graphic design projects counting icon and screen design, illustrations, animations, and presentations.

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a free, open source cross-browser tool used by graphic designers to programmatically reproduce (edit or reproduce) SVG files (vector drawings). SVG-Edit is built entirely on HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript and doesn’t require any server-side processing.

FontForge is a lightweight free, open source font editing tool for graphic designers. Developed by George Williams in the C-programming language, FontForge employs free-type rendering for font creation. It supports a broad range of font formats and is ideal for creating smooth, personalised open-type, true-type, and postscript font designs.

Awesome Stock Resources A curated list of awesome stock photography, video and illustration websites. I try my best to maintain this repository and keep it up-to-date but if you spot a broken link or a resource which isn’t listed, please, feel free to make a pull request.

Inkscape is a powerful feature-packed open source vector graphics editing tool for Windows, Mac OS and Linux that’s analogous with Adobe Illustrator, Xara X, Freehand, and Corel Draw. Like most free open source vector design software, it uses Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), an open source XML-based W3C standard, as its primary and natives file format.