Fedora Design Suite

Summary

The Design Suite is a Spin targeted towards professional designers, specifically the Fedora Design Team.

Previous Releases

Fedora 21
Fedora 20
Fedora 19
Fedora 18
Fedora 17
Fedora 16
Fedora 15
Fedora 14
Fedora 13

Owner

Name: Luya Tshimbalanga (Owner)
E-mail: luya at fedoraproject dot org
Design Software: design-sw at lists.fedoraproject.org

Detailed Description

The Fedora Design Suite is a tool that includes well-selected applications from Design Team fitting a variety of use cases whether you decide to work on publishing documents, creating images, pictures, website, basic animation or even 3D content.

What's new?

Now based on Fedora Workstation media.
Addition of Sparkleshares, PDF Mod and Shutter applications.
Inclusion of plugins for Blender (Lux Render and YaFaRay) and Inkscape (Sozi and Table).
Latest versions of Entangle (0.7.0) and Inkscape (0.91)
Gimp gained a new G'Mic plugin replacing Greycstation as default.
Two shortcut icons for documentation of both Design Suite and Design Team
Updated the list of tutorials related to design

Bundled Packages

A set of packages ranged from graphics to typefaces included in the Design Suite.

Graphic group

blender - 3D modeling, animation, rendering and post-production
- blender-luxcorerender - Blender export plugin to LuxCore Render
- YafaRay-blender - A free open-source raytracing render engine plugin for Blender
colord-extra-profiles - More color profiles for color management that are less commonly used
darktable - Utility to organize and develop raw images
dia- Diagram drawing program
entangle - Tethered shooting & control of digital cameras
fontforge - *the* editor for font files
gcolor3 - Advanced Color Picker
gimp - Image manipulation program
- gimp-dds-plugin - A plugin for GIMP that provides support for the DDS image format
- gimp-fourier-plugin - A simple plug-in to do fourier transform on your image
- gimp-gap - The GIMP Animation Package
- gimp-high-pass-filter - High pass filter for GIMP
- gimp-lensfun- Gimp plugin to correct lens distortion
- gimp-lqr-plugin- Content-aware resizing plug-in for the GIMP
- gimp-normalmap - A simple plug-in to do fourier transform on your image
- gimp-paint-studio - collection of brushes and accompanying tool presets
- gimp-resynthesizer - Gimp plug-in for texture synthesis
- gimpfx-foundry - Additional GIMP plugins
- gmic-gimp - GREYC's Magic for Image Computing plugin for gimp
GraphicsMagick - An ImageMagick fork, offering faster image generation and better quality
Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher
ImageMagick - *the* tool for batch-processing images
inkscape - Vector-based drawing program using SVG
- inkscape-psd - Inkscape PSD Importer
- inkscape-sozi - Inkscape extension for creating animated presentations
- inkscape-table - Table support for inkscape
krita - Digital Painting, Creative Freedom
mypaint - Fast and easy graphic application for digital painters
nautilus-image-converter - Nautilus extension for image conversion
optipng- PNG optimizer and converter
pdfarranger - PDF file merging, rearranging, and splitting
pitivi - Non-linear video editor
scribus - Desktop publishing application
shotwell - Photo organizer
synfigstudio - Vector-based 2D animation studio
xournalpp - Notetaking, sketching, PDF annotation and general journal

Audio and Video group

audacity - Multitrack audio editor
pitivi -Non-linear video editor

Typeface group

aajohan-comfortaa-fonts Modern style true type
adobe-source-sans-pro - A set of OpenType fonts designed for user interfaces
campivisivi-titillium - Sans-serif typeface family
julietaula-montserrat-fonts - Sans-serif typeface designed by Julieta Ulanovsky
lato-fonts - Sans-serif typeface family
open-sans-fonts - A humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson
overpass-fonts - Typeface based on the U.S. interstate highway road signal type system
rsms-inter-fonts - Typeface carefully crafted & designed for computer screens

Benefit to Fedora

This spin is insofar beneficial for Fedora itself, as it helps the Design Team by fitting its needs through selecting often used applications and including them on one spin. Additionally, it helps new users interested in design matters to join Fedora, since they'll be able to download the spin and start directly using the applications - without being required to look into the load of available packages. In a way, it fosters the design community inside Fedora.