Free software

Photo

• Gimp - advanced photo editor (alternative for Photoshop) with many plugins | OS - Windows, Linux, MacOS
  detailed post: Gimp-in-2013-and-future-projects , Gimp-288

 

• PaintNet - advanced photo editor (alternative for Photoshop) with many plugins |  OS - Windows - for the new vers. 4 Windows 7 SP1 or newer is required
  detailed post: http://open-source-spot.blogspot.ro/2014/02/paintnet-40-beta.html

• Rawtherapie - photomanager (alternative for Lightroom) | OS - Windows, Linux, MacOS
  detailed post: RawTherapee-4.0.12

• Zoner Free - photomanager (free limited edition) | OS - Windows

• Fotor - photomanager and editor | OS - all
• Hugin - panoramic stitching | OS - Windows, Linux, MacOS
  detailed post: Hugin-20130-panorama-stitching

Video

• Lightworks - advanced video editor (free limited edition) | OS - Windows, Linux, MacOS |
  detailed post: Lightworks-115-heavy-duty-video-editing

• Cinelerra | OS - Linux

 

• Pitivi | OS - Linux
  
• Kdenlive - video editor | OS - Linux, MacOS

• OpenShot  | OS - Linux

 

• Blender NLE | OS - Windows, Linux, MacOS
  
  
• Aegisub - subtitles | OS - Windows, Linux, MacOS

Audio 

• Ardour - OS - Windows, Linux, MacOS 

• EArt Audio Editor - OS - Windows
  
  
  
• Free Audio Editor - free limited edition | OS - Windows
• Audacity - audio editor |  OS - Windows, Linux, MacOS

Paint

•  Krita - digital painting (alternative for Corel Painter, Autodesk SketchBook) | OS - Linux, Windows
  detailed post: Krita-28-expected
  
  
• FotoSketcher  | OS - Windows
  detailed post: http://open-source-spot.blogspot.ro/2014/02/fotosketcher-275.html

• Project Dogwaffle (free limited edition) | OS - Windows

3D & FX

• Blender - modeling, animation, fx | OS - Windows, Linux, MacOS
  detailed post: Blender-269

• MakeHuman - human characters modeling | OS - Windows, Linux, MacOS
• Fragmentarium - fractals 2D and 3D | OS - Windows, Linux, MacOS
  detailed post: Fragmentarium-free-fractal-worlds

WebDev

• Google Webdesigner - editor HTML5

•  Microsoft Expression Web - advanced web editor web (alternative for Dreaweaver)  | OS - Windows

 

• Notepad++ - source code editor and Notepad replacement

 

•  Firebug - web development tool
  
  

DTP & Office

• Scribus - OS - Windows, Linux, MacOS

• Inkscape - vector graphics (alternative for CorelDraw, Adobe Illustrator) | OS - Windows, Linux, MacOS

• LibreOffice - Office software related to OpenOffice | OS - Windows, Linux, MacOS

 

• UniPDF -  PDF to Word Converter (doc/rtf), images (JPG/PNG/BMP/TIF/GIF/PCX/TGA), HTML, or plain text files (txt) in batch mode, with all document texts, layouts, images and formatting ideally preserved.

Various:

• PortableApps - portable software
  
  
  

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