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Graphics & Imaging

KDE provides a wide variety of applications to suit your graphics and imaging needs. View documents of different formats. Browse through your pictures. Manage your photo collection and digital camera. Or even create your own artistic masterpiece. Bring images to life with KDE.

Viewers

Gwenview
	A fast and easy to use image viewer for KDE.
Okular
	KDE's universal document viewer.
Kuickshow
	A very fast and comfortable imageviewer, somewhat inspired by ACDSee.
KFax
	Fax file viewer for KDE, supporting all page sizes.
KGraphviewer
	GraphViz dot graph viewer for KDE.
Koko
	A simple image viewer and sharer for KDE.

Photo Management

KPhotoAlbum
	A tool which you can use to easily sort and view your images.
Showfoto
	An lighter-weight digital photo viewing and management application.
Digikam
	An advanced digital photo management application.

Image Creation

Krita
	A professional digital painting application.
Karbon
	The scalable vector drawing application in KDE.
KolourPaint
	A free, easy-to-use paint program targeted at average users.
KIconEdit
	A basic icon editor for KDE.
KXStitch
	Cross stitch pattern editor.
SymbolEditor
	A cross stitch symbol editor.

Scanning

Skanlite
	A scanning application for KDE4. Simple interface and easy to use.
Kooka
	A scanning application for KDE3 incl. gallery management

Utilities

Spectacle
	A very handy utility for taking screenshots of desktops, windows, or regions of the screen.
KSnapshot
	A very handy utility for taking screenshots of desktops, windows, or regions of the screen.
KColorChooser
	KDE color and palette chooser, featuring mixing of colors, saving to palettes, and an eyedropper function.
KColorEdit
	A palette files editor, for editing color palettes and for color choosing and naming.
KRuler
	An onscreen ruler that allows you to measure objects on the screen.
Kbarcode
	A utility to create barcodes.
KIPI
	A collection of plugins that can be shared across different graphics programs.

Photo Editing Tutorials are also available:

Photo KDE Tutorial 1-1 Levels Adjust

Photo KDE Tutorial 1-2 Curves Adjust

Photo KDE Tutorial 1-3: White balance

Photo KDE Tutorial 1-4: Brightness/Contrast/Gamma + Hue/Saturation/Lightness

Photo KDE Tutorial 1-5: Perspective Adjustment

In addition, a great many tutorials are available for Digikam. Please see the page Digikam Tutorials for details.

Color Management

The first color management implementation comes with KDE 4.10, but it will not impact the graphics applications directly for the time being. This will change in the future. See the corresponding page on how to enable color management.

KDE Wayland for Artists and Graphic professionals

With the transition to wayland ocurring in the linux world Artists and graphic professional may need additional guidance as well as documentation about what is supported and what is not under wayland. This page will help us document things and have a central place for all things related to artistic workflows and requirement under KDE wayland.

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