Open Sourcery: Software for Artists
The follow list of links was provided to us courtesy of new media artist Julie Freeman after her Unplugged talk, to encourage MzTEK and her crew to seek out and use open source software wherever possible. Thanks Julie!!!
Learn more about Open Source and why you should use it, where you can.
Sound editing, recording, mixing, etc
Audacity
Ardour
Word processing/Spreadsheet/Basic Drawing/Presentation
OpenOffice
NeoOffice (OpenOffice port for OSX)
Desk top publishing/document layout for print
Scribus
Music player/audio manager
Songbird
Media player (plus encoder for formatting video and audio for streaming etc)
VLC
Visual programming language (similar to Max/MSP)
PD
Project management
OpenProj
ClockingIT
Photo and bitmap graphic manipulator
GIMP
Vector graphic drawing package for illustrations etc
Inkscape
3D graphic package
Blender
Simplified Java based programming language for artists
Processing
An OS Flash equivalent doesn’t exist yet but people are beavering away at it…
http://osflash.org/open_source_flash_projects
I also haven’t listed an OS equivalent of Final Cut Pro or Premier, but this sit has links – would be interested in any feedback if anyone has used any of these.
http://www.osalt.com/final-cut-pro
Mentioned by others:
Flash player (I’ve not checked this out)
Gnash
CanvasPaint – an online version of MS Paint
And of course – there are LOADS more…
Other useful links:
http://www.messageinabox.tacticaltech.org/
http://www.digitalartistshandbook.org/
http://socialsourcecommons.org/
Questions? Comments? Please comment if you have experience with the above software you would like to share, or futher suggestions.