Open Source Software
| Program | Platform | Website | Comments |
| Photo Editing | |||
| Gimp | Mac & Windows | www.gimp.org | A lot of tutorials are available |
| Picassa | Mac & Windows | www.google.com | No pixel-level editing |
| Seashore | Mac | http://seashore.sourceforge.net/index.php | Seashore only aims to serve the basic image editing needs of most computer users, not to provide a replacement for professional image editing products. |
| Photoscape | Windows | http://www.photoscape.org/ | Provides several modules including a viewer, editor, batch processor, Raw converter, file renamer, print layout tool, screen capture tool, color picker, and more |
| Pixia | Windows | http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mighty/knight/ | It features custom brush tips, multiple layers, masking, vector- and bitmap-based drawing tools, color, tone, and lighting adjustments, and multiple undo/redo. |
| VCW VicMan's Photo Editor | Windows | http://www.vicman.net/vcwphoto/index.htm | A versatile image editor with an intuitive interface and a wide variety of features. |
| SerifPhotoPlus | Windows | http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/software/PhotoPlus/default.asp | You can easily adjust brightness and contrast, color balance, remove red-eye and make numerous other image editing adjustments and enhancements. |
| Graphics | |||
| Inkscape 0.46.3 | Mac | http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/18954 | Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X |
| DrawBerry | Mac | http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/imaging_3d/drawberry.html | Easy to use |
| Page layout & Word Processing | |||
| Scribus | Mac & Windows | http://www.scribus.net/?q=downloads | Complicated download but nice application |
| Open Office | Mac & Windows | http://www.openoffice.org/ | Great alternative to MS Office from Sun Microsystems |
| NeoOffice | Mac & Windows | http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php | Great alternative to MS Office from Sun Microsystems |
| 3d Graphics | |||
| Sketchup | Mac & Windows | http://sketchup.google.com | Great support for education; easy and students love it |
| Blender | Mac & Windows | http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/ | |
| Art of Illusion | Mac & Windows | http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19836 | Stable and powerful enough to be used for serious, high-end animation work. Many of its capabilities rival those found in commercial programs. |
| Wings | Mac | http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/14823 | polygon mesh modeler |
| Quesa | Mac & Windows | http://www.quesa.org/ | |
| Other Software | |||
| Freemind | Mac & Windows | http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19325 | Alternative to Inspiration |
| Audacity | Mac & Windows | http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ | Easy to to use audio editing |
| Celestia | Mac & Windows | http://www.shatters.net/celestia/download.html | Open-source 3D planetarium software. Akin to traveling through space (outer space) |
| For more Mac Open Source software go to http://www.opensourcemac.org/, many of the programs listed are cross-platform. | |||
| information provided by John Guglielmino | |||