Inkscape

Photo editing software free lot, but due to the special nature, the vector drawing tools are very rare and very rare such software for free. However, if you do not want to pay the fee of £ 500 for the latest version of Adobe Illustrator - vector drawing software current top - then please download and install software Inkscape.
This free app provides Illustrator with a lot of cool tools for creating vector images combined with the infinite geometry.

The Gaussian Blur filter support in Inkscape 0.45 made possible some extremely photorealistic art. This Lamborghini Gallardo was created by Michael Grosberg based on a photo and uses blurs extensively for soft shadows and halos around bright reflections. TheSVG file is available in Inkscape distribution. The screenshot also shows a second window with an Outline view of the same file (green outlines are clipping paths).

Inkscape 0.45 does not yet have gradient meshes. But with the addition of Gaussian Blur, this feature suddenly got within reach - so watch future versions for news in this area. This screenshot (SVG file here) explains the approach Inkscape will likely take to implement this feature in a fully SVG-compatible way. Some of the code to be used for gradient meshes is currently in a separate library available from

This screenshot demonstrates the use of Gaussian Blur for imitating the "depth of field" effect where different parts of an object are blurred to different extent depending on how far they are from you. Also you can see here our History dialog with a complete list of actions in performed on the document the current editing session.

A new group of extensions in the Color submenu of the Effects menu allows you to adjust all colors of a selection at once. These commands affect both fill and stroke colors, including gradients (but not bitmaps). The commands work recursively on groups. The only problem is that, being Python extensions, these commands may be quite slow on complex documents.