Adobe PhotoshopAdobe Photoshop is a proprietary developed and published by Adobe for Windows and macOS. It was created in 1987 by Thomas and John Knoll. It is the most used tool for professional digital art, especially in raster graphics editing, and its name has become genericised as a verb (e.g., to "photoshop" an image, "photoshopping", and "photoshop contest") although Adobe disapproves of such use.
CorelDRAWCorelDRAW is a developed and marketed by Corel Corporation. It is also the name of the Corel graphics suite, which includes the Corel Photo-Paint as well as other graphics-related programs (see below). It can serve as a digital painting platform, desktop publishing suite, and is commonly used for production art in signmaking, vinyl and laser cutting and engraving, print-on-demand and other industry processes. Reduced-feature Standard and Essentials versions are also offered.
Adobe IllustratorAdobe Illustrator is a and design software developed and marketed by Adobe. Originally designed for the Apple Macintosh, development of Adobe Illustrator began in 1985. Along with Creative Cloud (Adobe's shift to a monthly or annual subscription service delivered over the Internet), Illustrator CC was released. The latest version, Illustrator 2026, was released on October 28, 2025, and is the 30th generation in the product line.
Raster graphics editorType of application software Darktable, a raw photo post-processing application GIMP, a feature-rich general-purpose raster graphics editor Krita, a raster graphics editor designed primarily for digital art and 2D animation A raster graphics editor (also called bitmap graphics editor or sometimes an image manipulation program derived from GIMP) is a computer program that allows users to create and edit images interactively on the computer screen and save them in one of many raster graphics file formats (also known as bitmap images) such as JPEG, PNG, and GIF.CPT (file format).cpt is a filename extension denoting one of several different kinds of files: A graphics file format used by some versions of Corel Photo Paint. It is also possible to open CPT version 6 files with IrfanView, but not with Paint Shop Pro (although it is from Corel).
CorelCorel Corporation ( ; as an abbreviation for "Cowpland Research Laboratory") is a Canadian software company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, specializing in graphics processing. The company is known for producing software titles such as CorelDRAW, and for acquiring AfterShot Pro, PaintShop Pro, Painter, Video Studio and WordPerfect. Corel rebranded as Alludo ( ) in 2022.
Wine (software)Wine is a compatibility layer to allow application software and computer games developed for Microsoft Windows to run on Unix-likeoperating systems. Wine is free and open-source software and is predominantly written using black-box testingreverse engineering, to avoid copyright issues. Wine is primarily developed for Linux, macOS and FreeBSD. Developers can compile Windows applications against WineLib to help port them to Unix-like systems.
Vector-based graphical user interfaceA vector-based graphical user interface is a mostly conceptual type of graphical user interface where elements are drawn using vector information instead of raster information.
HP ScanJetScanJet is a line of desktopflatbed and sheetfedimage scanners originally sold by Hewlett-Packard (HP), later HP Inc., since 1987. It was the first commercially widespread image scanner on the market, as well as one of the first scanners aimed at the small office/home office market.
Hewlett-PackardAmerican information technology company (1939–2015)The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company. It was founded by Bill Hewlett and David Packard in 1939 in a one-car garage in Palo Alto, California. Growing to become an influential high-tech powerhouse at the heart of Silicon Valley, the company was known for its progressive business philosophy, deemed the HP Way.
LinuxFamily of Unix-like operating systems that use the Linux kernelOperating systemLinux ( ) is a family of free and open-source softwareUnix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, which was first released on 17 September 1991 by Linus Torvalds.Mac operating systemsMac operating systems have been developed by Apple in a succession of two major series. In 1984, Apple debuted the operating system that is now known as the classic Mac OS with its release of the original Macintosh System Software.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.