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Reuse of Commons’ media files

This is a selection of programs designed to aid in media (graphics and audio) manipulation, as recommended by the Wikigraphists and Graphics Labs. These programs are considered very useful tools for the tasks of cleaning up, editing and creation of images, illustrations, maps, photographs and animations and the recording, editing and conversion of audio files.

Experienced Wikigraphists, several of them having improved their skills on the Graphics Lab itself, will be able to offer advice and assistance in the use of these programs, although each program usually has its own dedicated forums and tutorials that can be found online. The search strings constructed from the name of the program, followed by 'forum' or 'tutorial', will usually achieve desirable results from your favourite search engine.

This page contains a list of recommended software for creating and editing media files and tutorials as well.

Creation on Commons
Image guidelines Photography terms Macro photography Image editing Software Graphic Lab(s)

Markers

These free software products have been labeled by the Wikigraphists of the Graphic Lab the "five stars" of editing and creation of images, illustrations, maps, photograph and animations:

Name	Features	Operating System	Download	Example
Inkscape	Creator of SVG vector images. It can also be used to export PNG.	Linux; macOS; Windows	inkscape.org	(see more...)
GIMP	Similar to Photoshop, suite for image manipulation and creation of raster graphics, PNG, JPG, GIF, XCF). Can also be used to create animations when the GIMP Animation Package (GAP) is installed.	Linux; macOS; Windows; and others	gimp.org
hugin	Stitch panorama images and correct perspective	BSD; Linux; macOS; Windows	hugin.sourceforge.net
Blender	Creation and editing of 3D images.	Linux; macOS; Windows; and others	blender.org
Dia	Create and edit diagrams and graphics that only require basic shapes. Supports exporting to vector (SVG) and various raster file formats.	Linux; macOS; Windows	dia-installer.de

See also: Commons:Templates#Created with... templates for more

Tutorials for related topics

Manipulating meta data of media files like EXIF tags.
Commons:File types: File types allowed at Wikimedia Commons.
Commons:Media help: Help for how to play and view media files.
Converting video between different formats, especially into Ogg-Theora the single allowed video file type at Commons.
Help:SVG, Transition to SVG.
Help:Creating a DjVu file
Commons:Tools：　Additional Functionality Tools on Wikimedia Commons.

Useful software

General software

These software packages have been recommended by the Commons community for use in image manipulation:

The GIMP, home page at www.gimp.org - High quality open source image editing suite, similar to Photoshop (free, Open source - for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X). Windows version can be found at gimp-win.sourceforge.net. Opens and manipulates a lot of file formats including but not limited to JPEG, PNG and animated GIF's.
Inkscape, home page at www.inkscape.org - Vector graphics program, similar to Adobe Illustrator or Corel Draw (free, Open source - for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X)
OpenOffice.org, handles all types of images (reading SVG only with SVG Import Filter) (free, Open source - for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X)
ImageMagick, home page at www.imagemagick.org - Image conversion, effects, viewing... Particularly good for scripted and "batch" manipulation. (free, Open source - for Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS 9 or X, and others)
GQview, home page http://gqview.sourceforge.net/ is an excellent image viewer. (Free software for GNU/Linux, unofficial port for Windows)
Paint.NET, home page at www.getpaint.net - free and open-source, with a good user interface, but Windows-only. Supports PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, and PSD (with plugin) as well as conversion between and manipulation of images in these formats.
IrfanView, home page at www.irfanview.com (Freeware - for Microsoft Windows. A multi-featured freeware tool, supports many image formats. Good at viewing/converting images.)
XnView, home page at www.xnview.com (Freeware - for Microsoft Windows. A multi-featured freeware tool, supports many image formats. Good at viewing/converting images, adding IPTC metadata and GPS coordinates).
XLS-Chart2JPG Save your Excel charts as JPG with a little macro.
Zamzar, home page at zamzar.com - offers an online file conversion service for various formats, including Ogg video and audio.

Panorama stitching / keystone correction

Hugin is a cross-platform free/open-source panorama photo stitching program. It can also be used for keystone correction. Examples: Category:Created with Hugin.
Autostitch is a windows stitching program which works fine with photos which were taken in regard of using them for stitching. Handling is very easy but there is no way of manual correction. Category:Created with Autostitch

ShiftN Freeware for automatic keystone correction of photos by detecting converging lines. Examples: Category:Corrected with ShiftN.

JPEG

JPEG is a lossy image format, most image editing software can encode and decode it but it is also possible to perform certain transfomations on a JPEG losslessly.

Jpegcrop and jpegtran: jpegtran is a command line app that can perform a variety of lossless transformations on JPEG files. Jpegcrop is a command line tool with similar functionality, there is also a windows version available with GUI.
Cropbot allows one to crop JPEGs lossless, using jpegtran, so one does not need the software oneself.
jpegpixi is a CLI tool to interpolate pixels in the specified part of a JPEG image without affecting the rest of it, except for the blocks which contain that part. Also included is jpeghotp, which can find hot or dead pixels in otherwise black or white JPEG images and generate configuration for jpegpixi (that's useful if your camera has CCD defects). Source code and Debian packages are provided.
Freeware IrfanView for Windows (homepage) with the JPG_TRANSFORM plugin. For all lossless operations use menu options
BatchPurifier LITE is a free lossless metadata remover for Windows. Useful for users who wish to upload their photos without metadata to protect their privacy.

GIF

GIF should only be used for animations here, the tool list keeps that in mind.

gifsicle: A command line tool for making, manipulating, and optimizing animated gifs.
UnFREEz OSS GUI-tool for making animated gifs.

PNG

PNG is a lossless format to be used for any kind of diagram or screenshot for which SVG is not convenient.

OptiPNG: a command line tool for optimising PNG images
AdvPNG: a command line tool for further recompression of PNG images. Should be used after OptiPNG.
The GIMP (Windows Installers): is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. A free software and high quality image editing tool.

SVG

SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphics, is an XML-based vector graphics format. It can be created and edited by hand as a text file, or edited through a specialized program. Bitmaps (raster graphics) can be converted to SVG (especially diagrams, maps and so on should be)

See Help:SVG#Software for a list.

Ogg Vorbis (audio)

Vorbis is a lossy audio codec (See Vorbis).

Audacity can export projects in Ogg Vorbis format.
Mp3splt allows one to split Ogg Vorbis files without re-encoding.
Shtooka Recorder is a program for windows which allows automated recording of the pronunciations of many words, expressions from a text list. (you can record 500 words in 20 minutes). It can save files in Wav/Ogg/FLAC format (including Vorbis Comment tag).
Yazik Recorder is a cross-platform (Python)[1] equivalent of Shtooka Recorder.
http://youconvertit.com/

Also see the players for Ogg Theora videos below — they can also play Vorbis audio.

Ogg Theora (video)

Theora is a lossy video codec (see en:Theora). (Note: most software mentioned below should also be able to play Ogg Vorbis audio)

ffmpeg2theora is a command line theora encoder available for most operating systems, including Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.
Videolan Client is an open source multimedia player also being capable to transcode files but having the advantage of supporting both a GUI as well as the command line; available for most operating systems including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
MPlayer is also an open source multimedia player also being capable to transcode files but having the advantage of supporting both a GUI as well as the command line; available for most operating systems including Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
illiminable DirectShow filter for theora for playing ogg vorbis and theora in Windows Media Player and Winamp.
Transmageddon is a GUI based Linux program for converting video. It can take almost any format as its input and generate a very large host of output files.

Lists on other projects

fr:Wikipedia:Atelier graphique/Logiciels es:Wikiproyecto:Ilustración/Taller gráfico/Software de:Wikipedia:Grafiktipps en:Wikipedia:Graphic Lab/Software

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An edit you made seemed to be a test, and has been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any other tests you want to do. Feel free to visit the community portal if you would like to learn more about contributing. Thank you!

Jafeluv (talk) 15:52, 12 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

Wikimedia Commons has a specific scope

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Thank you for your contributions. Your image or other content was recently deleted, or will soon be deleted, in accordance with our process and policies, because it was not, or is not, within our scope. Please review our project scope, but in short, Commons is targeted at educational media files including photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text and video clips. The expression “educational” is to be understood according to its broad meaning of “providing knowledge; instructional or informative”. Wikimedia Commons does not contain text articles like encyclopedia articles, textbooks, news, word definitions and such. Each of these other kinds of content have their own projects: Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, Wiktionary and Wikiquote. If the content seems to fit the scope of one of those other projects, please consider contributing it there. Otherwise, consider an alternative outlet. If you think that the deletion was in error because the contribution really was in scope, you can appeal it at Commons:Undeletion requests, giving a reason why it fits our scope to help others evaluate the matter. Thank you for your understanding.

Herby ^{talk thyme} 16:19, 12 June 2011 (UTC) Reply

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Herby ^{talk thyme} 18:20, 13 June 2011 (UTC)Reply

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