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This is a selection of programs designed to aid in media (graphics and audio) manipulation, as recommended by the Wikigraphists and Graphics Labs. These programs are considered very useful tools for the tasks of retouching, editing and in creation of images, illustrations, maps, photographs and animations. They also aid in the recording, editing and conversion of audio files.

Each program usually has its own dedicated forums and tutorials that can be found online – search for the name of the program followed by forum or tutorial or stackexchange in your favourite search engine.


These free software products have been labeled by the Wikigraphists of the Graphic Lab the "five stars" of editing and creation of images, illustrations, maps, photograph and animations:

Logo Name Features Operating System Download Example
Inkscape Creator of SVG vector images. It can also be used to export PNG. Linux; macOS; Windows inkscape.org
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GIMP Similar to Photoshop, suite for image manipulation and creation of raster graphics, PNG, JPG, GIF, XCF). Can also be used to create animations when the GIMP Animation Package (GAP) is installed. Linux; macOS; Windows; and others gimp.org
hugin Stitch panorama images and correct perspective BSD; Linux; macOS; Windows hugin.sourceforge.net
Blender Creation and editing of 3D images. Linux; macOS; Windows; and others blender.org
Dia Create and edit diagrams and graphics that only require basic shapes. Supports exporting to vector (SVG) and various raster file formats. Linux; macOS; Windows dia-installer.de

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Useful software

General software

These software packages have been recommended by the Commons community for use in image manipulation:

  • GIMP, home page at www.gimp.org - High quality open source image editing suite, similar to Photoshop (free, open-source - for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X). Opens and manipulates a lot of file formats including but not limited to JPEG, PNG and animated GIFs.
  • ImageMagick, home page at www.imagemagick.org - Image conversion, effects, viewing... Particularly good for scripted and "batch" manipulation. (free, Open source - for Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS 9 or X, and others)
  • Paint.NET, home page at www.getpaint.net - freeware, with a good user interface, but Windows-only. Supports PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PSD (with plugin) and NEF (Nikon Electronic Format) RAW format for Nikon as well as conversion between and manipulation of images in these formats.
  • darktable, www.darktable.org - non-destructive photo management and editing, especially when you work with RAW files - great for cropping, keystone correction, color correction, sharpening, etc.; free and open source and available for Linux/Unix-like, OS X, and Windows.

Online

  • Zamzar, home page at zamzar.com - offers an online file conversion service for various formats, including Ogg video and audio.
  • FreeFileConvert, home page at freefileconvert.com - allows user to convert files in different formats, supports most popular video, audio, document and image formats.
  • FileViewer - an online tool for viewing many obscure graphics formats (PPM, TGA, PCX, etc.), and converting them to JPG or PNG.
  • MP4 to MP3 Converter - allows user to convert MP4 video file into MP3 audio files.
  • Media.io Converter - Batch convert video, audio or image to 45+ formats.

Panorama stitching / keystone correction

  • MS Image Composite Editor is a Windows stitching program with advanced orientation adjustment view and supports planar, cylindrical, and spherical projections.
  • AutoStitch is a Windows stitching program which works fine with photos which were taken in regard of using them for stitching. Handling is very easy but there is no way of manual correction. Category:Created with Autostitch

JPEG

JPEG is a lossy image format; most image editing software can encode and decode it but it is also possible to perform certain transformations on a JPEG losslessly.

  • Jpegcrop and jpegtran: jpegtran is a command line app that can perform a variety of lossless transformations on JPEG files; it can be used with MaPiVi for a GUI (although the selection preview size seems to be limited?). Jpegcrop is a command line tool with similar functionality, there is also a windows version available with GUI.
  • CropTool and Cropbot allow one to crop uploaded JPEGs losslessly, using jpegtran, so one does not need the software oneself.
  • JPEGsnoop. Free and open source tool to repair and analyse corrupted JPEGs. Windows-only, but works well under WINE.

GIF

GIF should only be used for animations here, the tool list keeps that in mind.

  • gifsicle: A command line tool for making, manipulating, and optimizing animated GIFs.
  • UnFREEz OSS GUI-tool for making animated GIFs.
  • ffmpeg can create animated gifs from videos

PNG

PNG is a lossless format to be used for any kind of diagram or screenshot for which SVG is not convenient.

  • OptiPNG: a command line tool for optimising PNG images
  • AdvPNG: a command line tool for further recompression of PNG images. Should be used after OptiPNG.

SVG

Main article: Help:SVG

SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphics, is an XML-based vector graphics format. It can be created and edited by hand as a text file, or edited through a specialized program. Bitmaps (raster graphics) can be converted to SVG (especially diagrams, maps and so on should be)

See Help:SVG for a software list.

Ogg Vorbis (audio)

Vorbis is a lossy audio codec. Video tools can also handle pure audio.

  • Audacity is an advanced audio editor with support for mixing and various effects. Can export projects in Ogg Vorbis format. The manual at its site contains advice on copying audio from tapes, LPs, minidiscs etc.
  • Mp3splt and oggz-chop (oggz-tools) each allow one to split Ogg Vorbis files without re-encoding.
  • Shtooka Recorder is a program for windows which allows automated recording of the pronunciations of many words, expressions from a text list. (you can record 500 words in 20 minutes). It can save files in Wav/Ogg/FLAC format (including Vorbis Comment tag).
  • Yazik Recorder is a cross-platform (Python) equivalent of Shtooka Recorder
  • OGG Converter allows you to convert OGG files to 11 other audio formats.

Ogg Theora and WebM (video)

See also: Help:Converting video

Theora is a lossy video codec. On Windows you can install the Xiph DirectShow filter for playing Ogg Vorbis and Theora in Windows Media Player and Winamp. You can use the native video editing software of your operating system for editing tasks on your local machine:

  • Openshot is an easy-to-use open source video editor for Windows, macOS, Linux and ChromeOS.
  • Kdenlive is a powerful open-source video editor for Linux and Windows
  • Pitivi is an open-source video editor for Linux
  • SoniTranslate is an open-source tool for Linux (fast) and Web (slow) to generate video transcripts, create translated subtitles, and redub videos in other languages as described in Help:AI video dubbing

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