Applications/Graphics

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.

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 for Calligra, supporting CMYK.
Karbon14
	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.

Scanning

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

Utilities

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.