Tools that are helpful for members of the ArtworkTeam include:

Raster graphics editing

The GIMP

the Gnu Image Manipulation Program (the GIMP) http://www.gimp.org

The GIMP should be installed by default and accessible via Applications > Graphics > GIMP Image Editor. It is a full-featured raster graphics editor, comparable to Adobe Photoshop.

Imagemagick

Imagemagick

This is an amazingly powerful toolset. It is command line driven, but you will soon learn that you can do things with the toolset that you cannot do with anything else. For those of you out there who know about pixel bit depth limitations, Imagemagick let's you work at a plethora of depths including colourspaces and such. It can also render SVG and a very large file assortment. It is wonderful for creating, altering, and adjusting files.

 sudo apt-get install imagemagick 

Complete documentation is available at http://www.imagemagick.org

pngcrush

pngcrush

 sudo apt-get install pngcrush 

pngcrush is a command-line utility that optimizes Portable Network Graphics (PNG).

Vector graphics editing

Inkscape http://www.inkscape.org

 sudo apt-get install inkscape 

Inkscape is a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) editor. You can also use it to export raster type images.

Printed media design

Scribus http://www.scribus.net

 sudo apt-get install scribus 

Scribus is a QT-based desktop publishing program (DTP). Its awesome, and features the best PDF support this side of the free world.

Iconset building tools

the GNOME Iconset Builder (GIB) http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?gib

source is available at the home page

GIB is a tool for building GNOME compliant themes. It is still way too early in development, but shows great potential.

Theme tools

Creating a Metacity theme ¹ is done through text files. There is a good tutorial at http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/metacity/metacity-themes.html

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