In the first of this 'FOSS v proprietary' series we looked at some of the best software for editing and manipulating bitmap images. With digital photography such programs replace the earlier darkroom ...

Inkscape is consistently chosen as the best alternative to Adobe Illustrator alongside other open-source tools which compete with the rest of the Adobe suite. Using Inkscape alongside Krita makes a ...

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an open W3C standard for describing two-dimensional graphics in a different way than traditional computer images, which are all bitmaps of some kind. A bitmap or ...

Everyone knows about GIMP, the open source graphics editor that competes with Photoshop for editing bitmap images, or images with "pixels in a bitmap." But what if you need a free program that can ...

Graphics tools are essential to manipulate visual models and pictures on a computer. If you are working on images like PNG or JPG, an editing tool like Adobe Photoshop is one that surely flashes your ...

We are using Illustrator CS5 to take technical drawings, exported from ancient CAD software as .ps (PostScript) files, and mark them up by selecting paths, combining those paths into closed rectangles ...