Design Software
a collection of free_media_tools for graphic design (mostly)
primary stack
- The Gimp for image manipulation (see also gimp_notes)
- 3d with blender
- DTP, layout and prepress with scribus
image management and photography
- darktable is an open source photography workflow application and raw developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers.
- RawTherapee is a free, cross-platform raw image processing program
some useful utilities
- Image Magick http://www.imagemagick.org
- fontforge > http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
- ffmpeg (see ffmpeg notes