Free photo paint software for linux

Set photo in Kopete is a really simple service menu that just sets the current photo as your photo in Kopete, nothing more, nothing less.

It doesnt handle directories containing space yet, if someone have a workaround so that KURL dont escapes all characters that would be nice=)

Just put this file in ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/servicemenus or use http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=11435 to install it.

mtPaint is designed for creating icons and pixel based artwork. mtPaint can edit indexed palette or 24 bit RGB images and offers basic painting and palette manipulation tools.
Its main file format is PNG, although it can also handle JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, XPM and XBM files. Due to its simplicity and lack of dependencies it runs well on GNU/Linux, Windows and older PC hardware.
Main features:
- Edit indexed palette or 24 bit RGB images.
- Load & Save PNG, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, XPM and XBM files.
- Paint using tools and patterns in one simple main window.
- Protect certain colours on the canvas from being painted over.
- Manipulate digital photos : Crop, scale, rotate, sharpen, soften, emboss, change brightness / contrast / saturation / gamma.
- Up to 100 undo levels.
- Multiple image clipboard.
- View images between 10% and 2000% of their original size.
- English (UK) language by default, Spanish and Czech translations via gettext system (GTK+1: ISO-8859-1 & ISO-8859-2 GTK+2: UTF-8).

Photo resize is a service menu for KDE that changes the selected pictures to the chosen size (550x550px, 500x500px, 450x450px,200x200px,150x150px).

The geometry will be hold. The script will size the pictures to their longer side.

Attention: The pictures will be overwritten!!

KolourPaint is an easy-to-use paint program for KDE. Features include undo/redo, more than a dozen tools, selections, transparent image editing and zoom support (with an optional grid and thumbnail).
KolourPaint is a free, easy-to-use paint program for KDE.
It aims to be conceptually simple to understand; providing a level of functionality targeted towards the average user. KolourPaint is designed for daily tasks like:
- Painting - drawing diagrams and "finger painting"
- Image Manipulation - editing screenshots and photos; applying effects
- Icon Editing - drawing clipart and logos with transparency
Its not an unusable and monolithic program where simple tasks like drawing lines become near impossible. Nor is it so simple that it lacks essential features like Undo/Redo.
The main difference between KolourPaint and most other "simple" UNIX paint programs is that KolourPaint actually works. See the Product Comparison page for details.
KolourPaint is opensource software written in C++ using the Qt and KDE libraries.
Main features:
- Undo/Redo Support (10-500 levels of history depending on memory usage)
Tools (single key shortcuts available for all tools)
- Brush, Color Eraser, Color Picker, Connected Lines a.k.a. Polyline
- Curve, Ellipse, Eraser, Flood Fill, Line, Pen, Polygon, Rectangle
- Rounded Rectangle, Spraycan, Text
Selections (fully undo- and redo-able)
- Rectangular, Elliptical, Free-Form shapes
- Choice between Opaque and Transparent selections
- Full Clipboard/Edit Menu support
- Freehand resizeable
- Colour Similarity means that you can fill regions in dithered images and photos
Transparency
- Draw transparent icons and logos on a checkerboard background
- All tools can draw in the "Transparent Colour"
Image Effects
- Autocrop / Remove Internal Border
- Balance (Brightness, Contrast, Gamma)
- Clear, Emboss, Flatten, Flip, Invert (with choice of channels)
- Reduce Colours, Reduce to Greyscale, Resize, Rotate
- Scale, Set as Image (Crop), Skew, Smooth Scale, Soften & Sharpen
Close-up Editing
- Zoom (from 0.01x to 16x)
- Grid
- Thumbnail
File Operations
- Open/Save in all file formats provided by KImageIO (PNG, JPEG, BMP, ICO, PCX, TIFF,...) with preview
- Print, Print Preview
- Mail
- Set as Wallpaper

Photo Mail Wizard is a desktop application designed to help users to search, choose, and send optimized photos by mail.
Sent photos are automatically commented, rotated, resized, and/or compressed using the users current parameters. The selected photos files are not modified, and nothing is written inside directories where photos are searched for.
Main features:
- Multiple language support (english and french are available)
- Photos recursive search inside a given set of directories. The following filters are available
- Filename
- Keywords
- Comments
- Added those last days, weeks, months
- Already sent those last days, weeks, months
- Added after a given date
- Added before a given date
- Select photos within search results.
- It is possible to start a new search and add new photos that match those new search criterias.
- For each selected photos : review, rotate, comment, set keywords
- Set maximum dimension and compression level for emailed photos
- Set the maximum number of photos by email
- Activate photos comments insertion in email
- Recipients select, create, modify or delete
- Message compose
- Configure mail parameters (Autoconfigure available if Outlook Express, thunderbird or mozilla/Mail are used)
- Send emails, while a sending is in progress it is possible to prepare next photos and message to send.
- Based on Java 5, Swing, JavaMail, Java2D, ImageIO, Logger, XMLEncoder/Decoder...
- Coded with NetBeans 4.1
- Compiled and Built with Ant
- Tested thanks to JUnit
- Protected by yguard
- Installer relies on IzPack
- The software is multithreaded, search, thumbnails generation and email sending are made in background
- Photos are loaded asynchronously
- Photos are not modified
- Nothing is written inside photos directories
- PhotoMailWizard only write inside its working directory.
- (".photowizards" directory inside your home directory)
- Use java default logging system, log files are located inside the working directory
Enhancements:
- Keywords can now be set on each photo. "Keywords" and "comments words search" criteria have been added. Automatic mail parameters configuration is now possible. All features are now available for free without any time limit (comments insertion is free).

ArahPaint4 is a textile-oriented paint program, mainly for jacquard. It is a simple paint program for raster palette images.
It has good tools for drawing images in repetition, support for handling palette images (color reduction, substitution, protected, transparent colors), contour tools, layer support, unlimited undo/redo, support for drawing in aspect ratio (pixels need not be square), a two level grid, and a coordinates display.
The project is simple, stable, fast, and works well on large images (>8000x8000).
Main features:
- it has good tools for working with reduced color images (palette)
- for color reduction
- for drawing in repeat
- for drawing in aspect ratio different than 1:1, as this is necessary for weaving
- works well with large images (8000x8000 and more)
- incorporates a nice image browser
- has unlimited undo/redo
- has keyboard shortcuts equal to Photoshop whenever possible
- has a couple of functions you will not find in any other program
- lacks thousands of functions some other programs have

KoffeePhoto is a free software that allows you to manage your personal photo library. You can manage your photo albums with KoffeePhoto, and share them with your friends or family very easily. Your albums will be saved on the KoffeePhoto network, which will let you access them anytime and anywhere.

KoffeePhoto allows you to pick your photos on your hard disk or on your camera, and to organize them in albums. Thanks to several ways of sorting your photos, by date, topic, place, person, or any combination of these categories, you will always have an easy way to find all your photos again.

KoffeePhoto saves your whole photo library on its peer-to-peer KoffeePhoto network. This is carried out in a completely seamless way. Your photos are encrypted to ensure confidentiality, and are saved without any loss in quality (no format reduction, no data compression), and no storage expiration date. You can access your photo library from several computers if you wish. In case of any data loss, you can recover your whole photo library very easily!