Top open source creative tools in 2016 (opensource.com)

Over at opensource.com, Miirin Duffy has a lengthy overview of the open-source creative tools available. She covers the core applications (GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, MyPaint, Blender, and Krita) for design, as well as tools for video, photography, 2D animation, audio, music, and more. "These six applications are the juggernauts of open source design tools. They are well-established, mature projects with full feature sets, stable releases, and active development communities. All six applications are cross-platform; each is available on Linux, OS X, and Windows, although in some cases the Linux versions are the most quickly updated. These applications are so widely known, I've also included highlights of the latest features available that you may have missed if you don't closely follow their development.If you'd like to follow new developments more closely, and perhaps even help out by testing the latest development versions of the first four of these applications-GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, and MyPaint-you can install them easily on Linux using Flatpak."