Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 26 February 2023 Week highlights: new release of darktable and Zrythm, new WIP features in Krita, new AVL drumkit, Blender changes release schedule with the 4.x. series. Less software news, more artworks this time. GIMP Not much going on in the main development branch,… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 19 February 2023 I’m traveling this week, so this is a very short recap. Week highlights: major changes in Krita, new releases of KiCad, Glaxnimate, CAD Sketcher for Blender, Ardour, and Yoshimi. GIMP The user-invisible port of GIMP to GAction contin… Continue Reading →
2023 Art Challenges! If any of these upcoming challenges take your fancy, get ahead of the curve and start creating!ANY art that has not already been submitted to OGA qualifies as long as it is submitted within the specified date period of the challenge…Got some old art … Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 12 February 2023 Week highlights: new version of CadQuery, new features in Krita, Inkscape, Kdenlive, Olive. Krita For Krita, the merge requests section is probably a little more interesting than what’s going on in the main development branch right n… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 5 February 2023 Week highlights: new features in GIMP, Inkscape, Penpot, and Ardour, Mayo review, Paul Davis in the Bezos movie, and more. GIMP Not much coding activity this week, but CmykStudent added importing/exporting support for the PAM file format a… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Introducing Mayo So you have a 3D design file and you only need to view it, you don’t like the idea of launching an entire 3D CAD program like FreeCAD, and you are on Linux. What do you do? I’m giving you Mayo, an open-source viewer by Hugues Delorme, based… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 29 January 2023 Week highlights: Pixar makes a new USD release, Autodesk releases Open RV and DNEG releases xSTUDIO, FreeCAD contributor starts an open-core company. GIMP Jehan and CmykStudent recently started porting plugins from GtkAction to GAction, which is the la… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 22 January 2022 There have been many interesting updates in the last 3 weeks, I’ve picked the ones I can realistically handle. Highlights: OBS Studio 29, Pinta 2.1, HDRView 1.7.1, Synfig 1.4.4, Ossia Score 3.1.6, and more. Creative Freedom Summit Videos f… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: 2023 in preview When I started interviewing FOSS developers some 18 years ago, 7 out the 18 projects covered in this recap did not even exist, 1 was still distributed as proprietary software only, and most of the other projects were so far from their proprietary count… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 25 December 2022 The next weekly recap will be out in January. But for now, here are this week’s highlights: new releases of darktable, Hugin, LSP Plugins. darktable 4.2 The new version of this digital photography workflow application delivers several majo… Continue Reading →
