a collection of free_media_tools for graphic design (mostly)

primary stack

• The Gimp for image manipulation (see also gimp_notes)
• vectors with inkscape (also 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