Commercial Graphics Applications are Great But, nobody prefers to go with expensive Graphic Applications. But now, many open-source alternative applications are available on the web as an alternative to expensive Graphic Applications.

Some applications are handy and offer great features compared to Commercial Graphic Applications.

In this article, you will read about the eight open-source alternative applications for Commercial Graphic Applications.

8 Open Source Alternatives For Expensive Graphic Software

Cinefx

Cinefx is a suite of open-source, cross-platform media playback, encoding, visual effects, and editing digital content creation tools that offer almost the same features you will find in any professional/commercial editing suite.

Whether it comes to painting videos, creating and editing effects in real time, or performing advanced composition, Cinefx is the perfect solution.

It supports various media formats, from AVI to Mpeg and QuickTime. In addition, it has powerful image sequence management with support for JPEG, TIF, TARGA, and the latest HDR formats, including EXR and DPX. It is alternative open-source software for Adobe After Effects 7.0

CineFX

Karbon14

Artists can make complicated designs without losing image quality while zooming or resizing. Karbon can finish Kivio or KChart diagrams. Karbon turns graphic design ideas into high-quality illustrations quickly.

Karbon14

Kino

Kino is GNU/non-linear Linux’s DV editor. IEEE-1394 integration for capture, VTR control, and camera recording. It takes video in Raw DV, AVI, and type-1 DV (separate audio stream) formats.

Multiple video clips can be loaded, cut/pasted, and saved to an edit choice list (SMIL XML format). Most edit and navigation commands have vi counterparts. Kino can export composite movies in DV over IEEE 1394, Raw DV, DV AVI, still frames, WAV, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4. gdk-pixbuf supports BMG, GIF, JPEG, PNG, PPM, SVG, Targa, TIFF, and XPM. Lame needs MP3. oggvorbis needs oggenc.

Kino

Krita

Krita is an Open source bitmap editing and drawing application for the Koffice suite for Linux Users.

With Krita, you can easily create new bitmap images from scratch or work with existing images, such as photos and scanned images.

It is completely different from other graphics design applications because it uses pluggable brush engines that support many brush resources, such as Gimp brush files.

It is an alternative open-source software to Paint.net 3.36, Adobe Photoshop CS4, Corel Paint Shop Pro X2, and Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.

Krita

KToon

KToon is an open-source 2D Animation Toolkit specially designed for animators by animators.

It provides all features of 2D Animation, such as drawing tools, layers, keyframes, timelines, and more, as Macromedia Flash has.

It does not support an only scripting language like Macromedia’s Action Script. However, you can export movies in AVI file format and Macromedia flashes (SWF) format.

It’s the perfect alternative software for Anime Studio 5 and Toon Boom Studio 3.5.

KToon

Potrace

Potrace is an open-source multiplatform bitmap converter that converts bitmapped images into simple vector graphics.

It supports the most common vector output formats: EPS, PostScript, PDF, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), and more.

You can easily use the output for further editing/drawing or directly in a Desktop Publishing (DTP) application. Potrace is a perfect alternative software for Corel Trace12.

Potrace

QCad

QCad is an open-source application for Computer-aided drafting in two dimensions (2d).

It is specially designed to make it more productive, user-friendly, and flexible and to increase its compatibility with other products.

It works on Windows, Mac OS X, and many Linux and Unix Systems. QCad is an alternative option for Autodesk AutoCAD 2009.

QC

Seashore

Seashore is an open-source image editor for Mac based on the Cocoa framework.

It is a free and useful open-source Mac Application alternative for Photoshop only for Mac users.

It features gradients, textures, and anti-aliasing for text and brush strokes. In addition, it supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based on GIMP technology and uses the same native file format.

Seashore