Fedora Design Suite
Summary
The Fedora Design Suite is a set of tools including well-selected applications from Design Team fitting a variety of use cases whether deciding to work on publishing documents, creating images, pictures, websites, basic animation and video editing or even 3D contents.
Previous Releases
- Fedora 37
- Fedora 35
- Fedora 34
- Fedora 33
- Fedora 32
- Fedora 31
- Fedora 29 & Fedora 30
- Fedora 28
- Fedora 27
- Fedora 26
- Fedora 25
- Fedora 24
- Fedora 23
- Fedora 22
- Fedora 21
- Fedora 20
- Fedora 19
- Fedora 16
- Fedora 13
Maintainer
- Name: Luya Tshimbalanga
- E-mail: luya at fedoraproject dot org
- Design Software: design-sw at lists.fedoraproject.org
- Website: https://labs.fedoraproject.org/design-suite
What's new for Release 41?
- Update to Gnome 47 featuring switch between Dark and Light mode and redesigned system menu located on top right of desktop.
- Blender 4.2.2 - Long Term stable release 4.2.2 which initial support of Vulkan and addons replaced by extensions. Legacy addons still available
- Gimp 3.0 snapshot - Gimp 3.0 snapshot previewing release candidate which includes major features such as non-destructive editing. Old unsupported addons are dropped
- Darktable 4.8.1 - boosted performance using OpenCL support for respective hardware.
- Inkscape 1.4 - Revamped color palettes, filter dialog gallery and several improvements.
- Krita 5.2.3 with several improvements.
- Scribus 1.6.1 fixing for hyphenation
- Pitivi 2023.03 contains several bugfixes and improvements.
- Hugin 2023.0.0 with new overview mode.
- Synfig 1.5.3 with major improvement of layout
- Xournal 1.2.2 with bug fixes.
Known issues
- Blender Cycles Rendering crashes on AMD hardware when rendering with GPU support
Download tab
- For current downloads, see https://labs.fedoraproject.org/design-suite/download/index.html
Bundled Packages
A set of packages ranged from graphics to typefaces included in the Design Suite.
Graphic group
- 3D modeling, animation, rendering and post-productionblender
- Blender export plugin to LuxCore Renderblender-luxcorerender
- A free open-source raytracing render engine plugin for BlenderYafaRay-blender
- More color profiles for color management that are less commonly usedcolord-extra-profiles
- Utility to organize and develop raw imagesdarktable
- Diagram drawing programdia
- Tethered shooting & control of digital camerasentangle
- *the* editor for font filesfontforge
- Advanced Color Pickergcolor3
- Image manipulation programgimp
- A plugin for GIMP that provides support for the DDS image formatgimp-dds-plugin
- A simple plug-in to do fourier transform on your imagegimp-fourier-plugin
- The GIMP Animation Packagegimp-gap
- High pass filter for GIMPgimp-high-pass-filter
- Gimp plugin to correct lens distortiongimp-lensfun
- Content-aware resizing plug-in for the GIMPgimp-lqr-plugin
- A simple plug-in to do fourier transform on your imagegimp-normalmap
- collection of brushes and accompanying tool presetsgimp-paint-studio
- Gimp plug-in for texture synthesisgimp-resynthesizer
- Additional GIMP pluginsgimpfx-foundry
- GREYC's Magic for Image Computing plugin for gimpgmic-gimp
- An ImageMagick fork, offering faster image generation and better qualityGraphicsMagick
- Panorama photo stitcherHugin
- *the* tool for batch-processing imagesImageMagick
- Vector-based drawing program using SVGinkscape
- Inkscape PSD Importerinkscape-psd
- Inkscape extension for creating animated presentationsinkscape-sozi
- Table support for inkscapeinkscape-table
- Digital Painting, Creative Freedomkrita
- Fast and easy graphic application for digital paintersmypaint
- Nautilus extension for image conversionnautilus-image-converter
- PNG optimizer and converteroptipng
- PDF file merging, rearranging, and splittingpdfarranger
- Non-linear video editorpitivi
- Desktop publishing applicationscribus
- Photo organizershotwell
- Vector-based 2D animation studiosynfigstudio
- Notetaking, sketching, PDF annotation and general journalxournalpp
Audio and Video group
Typeface group
Modern style true typeaajohan-comfortaa-fonts
- A set of OpenType fonts designed for user interfacesadobe-source-sans-pro
- Sans-serif typeface familycampivisivi-titillium
- Sans-serif typeface designed by Julieta Ulanovskyjulietaula-montserrat-fonts
- Sans-serif typeface familylato-fonts
- A humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Steve Mattesonopen-sans-fonts
- Typeface based on the U.S. interstate highway road signal type systemoverpass-fonts
- Typeface carefully crafted & designed for computer screensrsms-inter-fonts
Screenshots
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GIMP Image editor
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Inkscape illustration editor
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Scribus Desktop Publisher
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Blender 3D modeling
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Darktable RAW Processor
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Entangle Tethered Camera Control and Capture
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Hugin Panoramic stitching images compositor
Support tab
- IRC channel: #fedora-design on Freenode
- mailing list: design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org, design-sw@lists.fedoraproject.org