Graphics Application of the Year
 

Yes, we know many of these apps are not directly comparable.

--jeremy

Is it worth it to include Karbon and/ or Xara? I don't use them myself but wouldn't mind reading other user's impressions.

Added.

--jeremy

missed GraphicsMagick: http://www.graphicsmagick.org

a fork of ImageMagick

CinePaint

A fork of GIMP, but quite separate and distinct from GIMP in my opinion. Wouldn't vote for it myself as I haven't had use for its features yet.

Gimp is cool!

GIMP is good, but Krita development seems to be moving at a fast pace and I prefer the interface.

GIMP has been a life saver this year :-)

Gimp is the goto app...
 

Great for adding/removing moustaches, fly-away hair, increasing the size of fish, whatever.

I do most graphical work right from digiKam. But if I need something more powerful to edit photos I use Krita. I like its interface much more than the one from GIMP I used before.

gimp forever
i'd like to share some tutorials (full), how can i do this?

marciobarbalho, feel free to post them in our Tutorials section. Thanks.

--jeremy

What about mtpaint?
A very good, but limited I agree, choice for old boxes.

Inkscape .

Gimp this year, watching Krita closely to see what happens next year :)

I started to like Xara

I use Krita for everything I need for graphics.

Incape strives towards maturity, Xara made me EYES ::eyes::

Also Inkscape - I'm moving more and more stuff over to Inkscape and it looks more and more promising with even every CVS-release.

Can't wait to see it in a 1.0-version some day...

I like gliv a lot. It's only a viewer, but it's fast, keyboard-driven and unobtrusive.

Gimp is the best. Specially since they released the new version.

Bring out the gimp... Ive never even thought about using any of the others.

you are right. i agree with you.

GIMP is clearly going to win, but thats because thats what everybody uses.
Inkscape is the best for me because I can edit SVGs. If the GIMP could edit (and save) SVGs, I'd vote for that one.

I voted for Gimp because the latest version 2.4.* is such a huge improvement over 2.2. The crop tool is now useful for cropping!!!!! Actually the whole experience is better, much more user friendly (by way of much improved tools and plug in system rather than any change in interface). Of course there is now full support for colour profiles and CMYK which had been conspicuously absent for so long, so Gimp is getting closer to being a photo editor on a par with that well known, closed source non-linux-available application whose name must not be spoken. Imo Gimp is actually better than all the commecrial tools as a pure photo editor (that's what i use it for) but batch processing is still a (very) weak point. Luckily there is fantastic application just appeared recently called Phatch (Photo Batch) which is GPL and cross platform and an incredibly good tool for all kinds of batch processing of images. It complements Gimp perfectly, filling in a big and possibly never to be filled gap. Finally I can do all my editing and batch processing easily and reliably without any non-free tools or Win only apps running on wine....I thought the day might never arrive. I'd vote for Phatch too if it was up there in the list.

I do use almost all of them. But really, really, I know Scribus will be underrated because it is intended towards professional document illustration. That should be a minority among general graphics. I suppose...

Whomsoever the winner. I know we all love the Gimp but my 100 cents this year are for Inkscape.

Thought they used SVN?

Gnuplot is missing and Povray is the heart of Blender
 

Gnuplot should be added. In a recent release it allows to construct animated gif in quite a sophisticated way without using to much space. Look at an animation on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault_pendulum for example.

Also Povray should be associated to Blender. It is like if you were comparing Fortran (formula translator) with a MacIntosh (window manager). The heart is Povray, like Fortran was the heart of all scientific libraries.

I am using Povray for sophisticated logos similar to the wikipedia logo. Blender is confusing the essentials. And you still need Photoshop for the look, not Blender.

Many additional softwares are based on Povray not only Blender

Missed gThumb
 

Why isn't gThumb listed? For basic common sense layout and ease of use it can't be beat.
Digital Camera Tool is vastly superior to Winblows apps like MGI Photosuite.

Vector-based graphics
 

I'm just learning how to use Fireworks, a vector-based graphics program for other operating systems. Are there any vector-based packages available Linux yet? Any that are comparable to Fireworks yet? I'm not trying to troll here; I use Linux sometimes, and Windows and Mac operating systems at other times. I'm really curious about whether there are some serious equivalents in the vector graphics editing space.

You can try Inkscape.

GIMP. There are no substitutes (that I know of).

Thanks, I may just try Inkscape, then.

i've been loving gimp. it has everything i need and then some.

I just realized that this poll is an excellent assembly of open source products. What I regret is I did not take a snapshot of the graphics packages before I voted, and now since I voted, I no longer have access to the list. Obviously you did not want people voting twice, so I will be looking forward to the results so I can get this list.

The list

GIMP
Scribus
Inkscape
Blender
ImageMagick
Tux Paint
Krita
Kolourpaint
Karbon
Xara

:D

At the moment i cannot choose ( i use some of the apps, and each has its own merits ) ... I am leaning to either GIMP or Scribus, which are maturing both quite rapidly.

Some of the programs i did not use, i looked at today.

When i looked at Krita for the first time today, i noticed some uncanny similarities and familiarities in the interface to that of DeLuxePaint, which i used a lot when i still had an Amiga ... ( good times, good times ... ). I wonder if this was a deliberate effort... Still, just for that, it is worth investigating ...

grumbl,

Thanks for the list. My list is now complete. I know they posted with winners, but I was hoping they would post the numbers for all the applications. I noticed that Open Office beat out, percentage wise, Firefox. When you consider that Firefox is more publicly discussed, that is really impressive. I know there are other browsers that people like to use, and that probably took away some of Firefox's thunder. But still, it has to speak well for the Open Office gang. Thanks, and job well done.

grumbl,

Thanks for the list. My list of open source applications is now complete.

I guess the Karbon developers have some PR work to do.

I am a Cad Designer by trade and an artist for fun. So as designer I use Illustrator, Photoshop
for my job. I found Xara (or Xaralx in linux) to be fabulous illustrating tool and artwork program.
Inkscape is nice too. But can run in to resource issues if the file gets to complicated.

Gimp is a good bitmap image program, not as UI friendly as Photoshop
(this may be my bias from long time use).

I have to say the only tool that can do both bitmap and vector images well is the Xara windows version.

my two cents,

mark

Hi, the poll is closed but mine would have been another vote for Gimp.

Anyway, about 3D modeling realm, I wonder why nobody mentioned Art of Illusion. It's not as powerful and advanced as Blender, but I find it efficient and very easy to learn :twocents: