I am trying to make a list of all design, photo & video tools that work/don't work on Ubuntu.
I am doing this for fun and to see if anyone else knows any good/bad tools
Please add your programs/experiences too.
Also check out Getdeb.net for few porgrams not listed here.
List now in WIKI form in Here:
http://artlinux.wetpaint.com/
Please feel free to update the Wiki as I am very busy atm. and can't find time to do it.
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Photo Managers
Picasa
Click on ubuntu package. Googles photo
managing software.
F-Spot
Code:
sudo aptitude install f-spot
F-Spot comes pre-installed on Edgy. For Dapper and others check the forums.
DigiKam
Code:
sudo aptitude install digikam
KDE photo manager. For KDE people.
Kitty Hooch
Info & Download
Another KDE photo manager.
jBrout
Code:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.lst
add this:
Code:
deb http://jbrout.free.fr/download/debian binary/
and then:
Code:
sudo apt-get update
sudo aptitude install jbrout
Python-based photo manager More info.
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Raster Graphics/Photography/RAW Tools
The Gimp OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install gimp
No need for description. Default in Gnome.
PhotoPaint 8/Canvas 7 PROPRIETARY/FREE
Download PhotoPaint
Download Canvas
Both too old. They won't work on newer systems. Canvas 7 depends on an older version kernel. I don't know what the problem with PhotoPaint is.
LightZone PROPRIETARY/FREE
Tool for editing photographs. Good interface, quite fast.Read more.
Download.
Pixel PROPRIETARY
Demo version
Check the big debate here.
Krita OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install krita
Never tried it.
Default in KDE. Has CMYK support. Developing fast. Old version in repos. More info and source here.
Gogh OSS
Gogh is a GNU/Linux bitmap graphics editor. It is designed to work with pressure-sensitive input devices, like a Wacom tablet. Info & Download source
Gimpshop OSS
Get .deb
Fork of The Gimp, shortcuts and menus like in photoshop, but otherwise it's the same old Gimp. More info
blueMarine OSS
Get .deb
More info[/URL]
Windows/OSX equivalent: Adobe Lightroom, Apple Aperture
VIPS OSS
Info & source
VIPS is a free image processing system. It aims to be about half-way between Photoshop and Excel. It is very bad at retouching photographs, but very handy for the many other imaging tasks that programs like Photoshop get used for. It is good with large images (images larger than the amount of RAM you have available), for working with colour and for research & development.
dcraw OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install dcraw
"program that decodes any raw image from any digital camera"
Video Related Picture Editor OSS
Info &source
VRPE want's to be a full-featured video-editor and maybe is sometime. Until in beta-state it can be seen as ImageMagick cluster-frontend...
DALiM LiTHO PROPRIETARY
Info (no download available 
High-performance combination of well-known prepress applications for page layout, illustration and image retouching, making it the ultimate tool for anyone working in lithographics.
Metapixel OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install metapixel
Info
Metapixel is a program for generating photomosaics. It can generate classical photomosaics, in which the source image is viewed as a matrix of equally sized rectangles for each of which a matching image is substitued, as well as collage-style photomosaics, in which rectangular parts of the source image at arbitrary positions (i.e. not aligned to a matrix) are substituted by matching images.
Hugin OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install hugin
Program for creating panorama pictures. Front-end for panorama tools. The GUI is a bit confusing, but the program works ok. Very complex. Info here. "sudo aptitude install enblend" to install enblend plugin for better compositing result.
Bibble Pro/Lite PROPRIETARY
Info + download demo. Professional Workflow and RAW Conversion software is designed to quickly and easily let you maximize the results from most major cameras and RAW formats.
PhotoGenics HDR PROPRIETARY
Info. Commercial program, $699. Website does not give information, but if I got it right this is a competitor for Photoshop. The website also has a demo version, but it doesn't work. .. Oh yeah, Its suitable for HDR editing as well
Rawstudio OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install rawstudio
Info & source
Rawstudio is an open source raw-image converter written in GTK+.
UFRaw OSS
Get .deb Rumor has it that even photoshop has part of UFRaw code (or was it rawstudio..).
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Vector Graphics
Inkscape OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install inkscape
I don't have experience with this one.
Xara Xtreme OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install xaralx
A winner. It really is a good substitute for Illustrator. Learn more here.
Sodipodi OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install sodipodi
I used it ages ago. I think Inkscape & Xara are now much more advanced(not sure). DISCONTINUED
Gestalter OSS
It's here. I don't know much about this yet.
Dia OSS
[CODE}sudo aptitude install dia[/CODE]
Here here. Dia is inspired by the commercial Windows program 'Visio', though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams.
ivtools OSS
Follow this link.
ivtools (pronounced eye-vee-tools) is a suite of free X Windows drawing editors for PostScript, TeX, and web graphics production, as well as an embeddable and extendable vector graphic shell
Sketsa PROPRIETARY
Info here. Similar to Xara and Inkscape, but worse. And it's proprietary/non-free. Don't bother with it.
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3D software
Art Of Illusion OSS
Code:
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/aoi/ArtOfIllusion24-Linux.zip
unzip ArtOfIllusion24-Linux.zip -d aoi
cd aoi
./aoisetup.sh
stable and powerful enough to be used for serious, high end animation work. Many of its capabilities rival those found in commercial programs. Some of the highlights include subdivision surface based modelling tools, skeleton based animation, and a graphical language for designing procedural textures and materials.
SharpConstruct OSS
Download.
Open-source project similar to ZBrush. Read more. An Ubuntu package also exists, but it didn't work for me.
Blender OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install blender
3D program with editing and compositing capabilities. Everyone should know this by now.Info.
Maya PROPRIETARY/FREE VERSION EXISTS
Industry-standard 3D program. PLE Edition is free of charge. Otherwise.. expect to pay a lot, but also to get a lot. Most users will probably cope with Blender.
K-3D OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install k3d
K-3D features a robust plugin architecture and visualization pipeline, designed to scale to the needs of professional artists. K-3D has been written from the ground up to generate motion picture quality animation using RenderMan render engines.
More info here.
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Video Editing
Kino OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install kino
No experience yet. Info.
LiVES OSS
Download .deb Slow. Its good for working with smaller clips, but unusable for bigger ones. More info.
Cinelerra OSS
Use this or this guide to install. Crashes often. Is ugly. But it is a step in the right direction. A very comprehensive tool with lots of features.
Diva OSS
Download source. This project looks pretty dead. The demo videos look good though. Hope someone resurrects this project. Update: NOT DEAD
PiTiVi OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install pitivi
Starts with , but it doesn't do anything. Seems to be very simple to use.
MainActor PROPRIETARY
Demo version. It's actually very usable. Fast. Not cheap. Good interface. Expensive. if you have used Premiere, you feel comfortable with this. Doesn't support very many codecs though. Info.
ShotCut OSS
Difficult to install. First you need mlt libraries. Get those from Jahshakas repository.
Make sure you have all the dependencies explained here--> Info.
Code:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@mlt.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/mlt login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@mlt.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/shotcut co shotcut
bootstrap, configure, make and make install. Tried this a few months back, can't remember if it worked properly or not.
But it definitely wasn't worth the trouble.
SciLab Aurora OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install scilab
wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/scilab-aurora/aurora_linux.zip
unzip aurora_linux.zip
cd aurora
./aurora.sh
Info. Simple video editor that works quite well for a first version. It doesn't have any proper functionality yet, like editing, but you can play around with transitions. What I did find good about it is that it actually seems to be quite fast. Hope they carry on the development.(first release was end of september)
KDEnlive OSS
@Sourceforge
Klik Install
KDE video editor using the MLT framework. The best choice after Blender for open source video editing.
use Treviño's repositories for installing via apt.
Code:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
add this:
Code:
deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/3v1deb feisty 3v1n0
then:
Code:
sudo apt-get update
gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv 2D6CFB44DD800CD9
gpg --export --armor 2D6CFB44DD800CD9 | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get install kdenlive
Jumpcut PROPRIETARY/FREE/ONLINE
Use it! Yahoo-sponsored on-line video editor. Simple to use. Only Flashplayer required! Good tool for editing video straight to internet.
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Video Compositing/Effects
D2 Nuke PROPRIETARY
Info.
Another heavy-duty film compositor like Shake. Big, but justified price-tag.
SNICE OSS
@Sourceforge.Need to compile from CVS. However there is no config file. So I don't know... However users say it's pretty good and stable for 0.1. But... there is no active development at all. DISCONTINUED
Shake PROPRIETARY
1-800-MY-APPLE Shake for Linux is available through Apple Pro Resellers for $4999. Heavy-duty compositing tool at a heavy-duty price. I've Never used it.
ZS4 PROPRIETARY/FREE
Download.[/URL]
Impressive features, but r-e-a-l-l-y s-l-o-w. Still definitely the most interesting free video tool. New version and Ubuntu-specific build. I will try it later.
Jahshaka OSS
Instructions for installing Very buggy, but it's alpha. Development slow. Very promising though.
Cinepaint/Glasgow OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install cinepaint
Gimp-fork. Works now. HDR-Capable. Glasgow(next version) is here, but only for Windows!!!.
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Vector Animation
Synfig OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install synfigstudio
For some reason this doesn't work on my Intel machine, but on my AMD machine it runs perfectly.
Looks promising. More info.
F4L OSS
Info.Name says it all.. Flash 4 Linux. Haven't tried it. Apparently DISCONTINUED. Use UIRA Instead.Install instructions.
UIRA OSS
UIRA.org
Early development. qflash and f4l merged to form this project. I have problems getting it to work.
Someone with more experience with compiling qt apps might wanna give this a try.
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CAD
Archimedes OSS
Download. Link also includes installtion instructions and more information. Java-based CAD-tool.
gCAD3D OSS
Info & Download
All the necessary info is on their website.
Cycas PROPRIETARY/FREE FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE
Info & Download
CYCAS is a piece of architectural software for drafting and design in 2 + 3 dimensions. This seems really good.
GraphiteOne PROPRIETARY/FREE FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE
Get it here. + Info.
GraphiteOne is a feature rich modular 3D CAD system designed for but not limited to mechanical construction.
This also seems really good.
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Trad. Animation
Ktoon OSS
Download source. There is .deb on these forums somewhere, but that didn't work for me.(no icons). Will try compiling this later. Info.
Plastic Animation Paper PROPRIETARY/FREE VERSION EXISTS
Download.
Free version and payware version included. Its like animating on paper, but with a computer. More info.
Anime Studio (Pro) PROPRIETARY
Info. The program that used to be called MoHo. Linux version will be out soon.
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Desktop Publishing
Scribus OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install scribus
Also available on Automatix.
Desktop publishing. Open-source equivalent of In-design or Quark. Info.
Laidout OSS
Download .deb
Simple layout program. More info @ laidout.org
Scribus-ng OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install scribus-ng
Some kind of special/development version of scribus.
PageStream PROPRIETARY
Info + Download demo PageStream is a quality full featured desktop publishing/page layout program that gives you the tools you need to create the designs you desire. Everything from church newsletters to company perspectives, multi-volume product documentation to invitations for your family events can be created in PageStream. Full color brochures are almost as easy to create as a simple business card.
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Web Design
Nvu OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install nvu
Web authoring tool. DISCONTINUED LOOK BELOW FOR KOMPOZER. Info.
Kompozer OSS
Download binaries & source.
Mozilla is continuing the Nvu Project now apparently.
Quanta Plus OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install quanta
KDE web-development tool. Info.
Aptana OSS
Info & Download
Installation instructions from binaries.
Installation via apt.The Aptana IDE is a free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP/SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code.
qooxdoo OSS
http://qooxdoo.org/
GUI tool for creating AJAX-stuff.
OpenLaszlo OSS
Info
Something to do with web design not sure what.. yet
Bluefish OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install bluefish
Advanced HTML-editor.
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Font tools
FontForge OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install fontforge
Seems to be good substitute for Macromedia Fontographer and such. Info
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Other
QDVDAuthor OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install qdvdauthor
DVD authoring. Crashes a lot, but has a good set of tools. Info.
Vexi OSS
Vexi is a platform for creating and publishing Graphical User Interfaces that can be used over the Internet or an intranet. More info & Download
Knitting Pattern Creator OSS
Download
Knitting Pattern Generator is a Python script to convert image files (PNG, GIF, BMP, etc.) into knitting patterns.
Context Free Art OSS
Info & Download
It's a program for creating pretty random (but beautiful) images.
Processing OSS
Info & Download
Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound.
I've seen pretty incredible looking things created with this.
kuler PROPRIETARY/FREE/ONLINE
Use it! Adobe relased something for free! Kuler is a tool to help the designer in creating color-palettes. NOTE: Current version of Linux-Flash does not support Express Install, so we have to wait for this. Btw. It worked earlier...
LignumCAD OSS
lignumCAD is a tool for designing furniture. Download .rpm or source. Link includes more info.
Stopmotion OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install stopmotion
Stopmotion is a free application for creating stop-motion animation movies. The users will be able to create stop-motions from pictures imported from a camera or from the harddrive, add sound effects and export the animation to different video formats such as mpeg or avi.
ColorExplorer OSS
Download.
ColorExplorer is a tool for exploring the color space and finding out how colors, color names, and numerical color specifications are related.
Voodoo Camera Tracker PROPRIETARY/FREE FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE
Download + info.
"The voodoo camera tracker estimates camera parameters and reconstructs a 3D scene from image sequences. The estimation algorithm offers a full automatic and robust solution to estimate camera parameters for long video sequences. The results are useful for many applications like film production, 3D reconstruction or video coding." Works well with Blender also.
ColorWrite PROPRIETARY/FREE
Info + download. ColorWrite is a color chooser with an integrated CSS/HTML code generator. It allows you to define colors using RGB, HSV, CMY and CMYK, makes using web safe colors easy and now, with Version 1.1, ColorWrite takes the guess work out of combining colors.
LProf OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install lprof
LPROF is the only open source ICC profiler with a graphical user interface. It can be used to create ICC version 2 compliant profiles for cameras, scanners and monitors. As such it fills a necessary niche in the emerging open source color management effort.
Monica OSS
Download binary. "Monica is a Monitor Calibration Tool. An easy way to get respectable color rendetion on your screen" Info.
Coriander OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install coriander
Coriander is the Linux graphical user interface for controlling a Digital Camera through the IEEE1394 bus
more info.
MetaCam OSS
Code:
sudo aptitude install metacam
A tool for editing picture meta-data.. right? correct me if i'm wrong.
More Info.
ExifTool OSS
Does the same thing as MetaCam, I guess.. DL + Info
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I added a bunch programs that I haven't tried yet, but are still in (early) development or look interesting. If you have any experience with these, add your comments
Frameworks
Stop-motion capture program. Info & Download
Gephex
Video effects generator. Info & Download source Seems like a tool for veejays.
EffecTV
Similar to Gephex, I think. Info & Download source
ARToolKit
Info & Download source
ARToolKit is a software library for building Augmented Reality (AR) applications. These are applications that involve the overlay of virtual imagery on the real world.
High-tech stuff.
Veejay
Name says it all. Info & Download source
FreeJ
Code:
sudo aptitude install freej
Veejay tool with streaming capabilities.
Celtx
Celtx is Pre-Production software for film, video, theatre, and animation.
Look like planner/organizer for film pre/production work. Info & Download
Moonlight 3D
Info & Download 3D modeling & Animation app.
gSculpt
Info & Install Instructions Subdiv modeling prog.
SIPToolbox
Info & Download Not sure what this is yet.
Moldeo
Real-time effects and animation tool.. in other more veejay stuff... I think
Download source & More Info.
Delta Compositor
Info & Download source Very early in development. But it looks really promising node-based compositor.
Vivia
@Sourceforge Video editor. 0.1 just released.
JAnimationShop
@Sourceforge Animation program written in java. There is something in the CVS. Not sure if this project is discontinued.
Open Movie Editor
@Sourceforge 0.02 released. Looks Similar to Diva, PiTiVi and Vivia.
ISOBLOX
an isometric pixel art tool. @Sourceforge
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