Digital Photo / Image

PureRef is a great but simple and lightweight utility that will help you manage the images and collect them in one place so that you […]

PaintTool SAI is the digital painting application that built a cult following among illustrators, anime artists, and manga creators through a single defining quality, the […]

Aseprite is a pixel art editor and animation tool, and it wears its specialty proudly, right down to an interface that is itself drawn in […]

OpenToonz is a 2D animation studio in one program. It draws in vector or raster, times drawings on an exposure sheet, colours them from indexed […]

Compressing an image for the web involves a decision nobody can make in the abstract, which is how much quality to give up for how […]

There is no software in the open source world that matches the scope of what Blender does in a single application. Modeling, sculpting, retopology, UV […]

Where most digital art software gives you palettes, toolbars, and panels on all four sides of the canvas, Autodesk SketchBook hides everything until you ask […]

Pencil2D Animation is a drawing program with a timeline under it, built for animating the old way, one frame at a time by hand. Draw […]

Affinity Designer will help you edit and improve your images’ look by retouching them and improving the quality by changing and editing colors, manipulating lighting, […]

MakeHuman builds a human figure from sliders. Start with a neutral body and drag controls for gender, age and build, then for height and proportions, […]

Lightshot is a screenshot tool that turns the Print Screen key into a two-step gesture. Press it, drag a rectangle over the part of the […]

Krita is a digital painting application built specifically for illustrators, concept artists, and comic creators. The distinction matters because most software in the broader image-editing […]

Vector drawing means describing shapes mathematically rather than as pixels, so a logo scales from a business card to a billboard without softening. Inkscape does […]

Adobe Camera Raw is the plugin that handles raw photo files inside Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and Bridge. It’s not a standalone editor. You don’t launch […]

Explaining something on a screen to somebody who is watching means pointing, and a mouse cursor is a poor pointer. Epic Pen replaces it with […]