Best free design ressources

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The GIMP

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. Is a free program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Download: Windows :: UNIX/Linux :: OS X

Alch Icon Suite

Alch Icon Suite is a powerful freeware icon editing studio that is extremely easy to use. You can modify any Icon or create your own. Download: Windows I

nkscape

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats. Download: Windows :: UNIX/Linux :: OS X

DrawPlus

Unleash your creativity with this powerful drawing and graphics software. You’ll be amazed how easy it is to create high quality graphics and animations without having to spend hours designing.DrawPlus 4 is the user-friendly program that will enable you to achieve outstanding designs in no time at all. Create attention-grabbing text, decorative page elements and logos, as well as full-page illustrations, with little or no previous design experience. Download: Windows

Terragen

Terragen is a scenery generator, created with the goal of generating photorealistic landscape images and animations. It is available for Windows and the Mac OS.Although Terragen is a continually evolving work-in-progress, it is already capable of near-photorealistic results for professional landscape visualisation, special effects, art and recreation. Terragen has been used in a variety of commercial applications including film, television and music videos, games and multimedia, books, magazines and print advertisements. For just a small selection of projects Terragen has been used in, please visit the commercial use page. Download: Windows :: OS X

uMark Lite

uMark is a watermarking software. It enables you to add visible watermarks to your digital images and photos. Be it your company name, logo or a copyright notice; uMark can add all! You can fully customize the placement of your watermark, set a custom font, size, color and transparency. You also have the option of rotating and tiling the watermark. It can also be used as thumbnail generator and batch converter. Download: Windows

Synfig Studio

Synfig is a powerful, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software package, designed from the ground-up for producing feature-film quality animation with fewer people and resources.2D Animation has traditionally been very expensive because every frame must be drawn by hand. Even with today’s digital inking and painting software, the process still relies on individuals hand-drawing each frame. This laborious task is called “tweening”.
Synfig eliminates the task of manual tweening, producing smooth, fluid motion without the animator having to draw out each frame individually.
This allows you to produce 2D animation with fewer people while producing a product of a higher quality. Download: Windows :: UNIX/Linux

Faceworx

Faceworx is a free Software which creates a 3D head out of two standard 2D photos. You need two well illuminated pictures; one from the front (mugshot style) and one from the side. The software demands some skills in placing reference points and marking the contours of the face; mouth, nose, ears and eyes. The final 3D portrait can be saved and exported in the well known OBJ format. Download: Windows

3D Canvas

D Canvas is a real-time 3D modeling and animation tool that incorporates an intuitive drag-and-drop approach to 3D modeling.Complex models can be constructed from simple 3D primitives, or created using 3D Canvas’ Object Building Tools. Modeling tools are provided to deform, sculpt, and paint 3D objects. Download: Windows