This brief blog entry will give you a snapshot of a few modern, and of course free, graphic editors available to Linux users. The inspiration is primarily caused due to frustrated w/ running oudated Photoshop version in WINE or resorting you GIMP.
MyPaint
I don't get it... then again I'm not as artistic as some folks. So I took a picture of the white screen and the error that I got when opening any of my paintings or images. No PNG support? Not for me, but here's more about MyPaint. Is a fast and easy painting application. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program.
It comes with a large brush collection including charcoal and ink to emulate natural painting. Other features are:
- support for pressure sensitive graphic tablets
- unlimited canvas (you never have to resize)
- undo
- fast
- no layers (work in progress)
- using pygtk with C extensions
Fotoxx
Fotoxx is clearly not a gimp alternative, yet I could manage to open an image and crop. It's a free open-source Linux program for improving image files made with a digital camera.
Postr
Even though postr is yet another Flickr upload tool it might do some basic graphic editing capabilities, right? Nope. It's for the GNOME & a very capable uploader.
Summary
Bleh... Back to GIMP. :-/
