Automatically expanding layers is a new feature coming in the next development release of GIMP. Let’s see how it works, where it excels and where it needs further improvement.
Expanding the layers
Let’s say we have a 4K image with a smaller…

Jehan Pages who is the lead developer and maintainer of GIMP made an announcement on Patreon yesterday. GIMP 3.0 is tentatively scheduled for release in May 2024. The plan is to announce the release at the next Libre Graphics Meeting conference in Fran…

Disclaimer: this post is an extended transcript of the video below.

If you’ve been around long enough, you probably remember a project called Glimpse. Originally it was an attempt to create a fork of GIMP for the name change. Then that pro…

Week highlights: new major releases of Audacity, BlenderBIM, SpectMorph, new features in GIMP.

Edited transcript of the video goes below.
GIMP
Jacob Boerema added support for 16- and 32- bit per channel DDS files in GIMP, which should make quite…

Week highlights: new features coming to GIMP and Krita, Scribus is getting a facelift with Indigo UI, FreeCAD is undergoing a sketching workflow revamp, Ardour is getting Launchpad X support.
As an experiment, I made a video version of the recap. I’m g…

Week highlights: new releases of LightZone, OSPRay, and Ardour, exciting changes coming to Krita.
Inkscape
A huge amount of changes lately come from Daniel Boles and Tavmjong Bah, both working on the GTK4 port of the program. Meanwhile the rest of the …

Quite a few things happened since the last recap. Let’s focus on the main
ones. Highlights: new major releases of Krita and Ardour, major changes in
FreeCAD, two commercial wavetable synths get open-sourced, Focusrite lends a
hand to a drivers/UI devel…

This is a comparatively short recap, because there haven’t been all that many changes and releases. Highlights: new features in Inkscape and FreeCAD, new releases of BlenderBIM and libwacom, cool new stuff in Ardour.
Inkscape
The Swatches dock UI has b…