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 →
Libre Arts: darktable 4.2 The latest release of darktable has several really good changes, here is a quick video overview with its text/pictures version below. Sigmoid module The new module called “sigmoid” does a very sensible scene-to-display t… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Hugin 2022 New annual release of Hugin, free/libre panorama maker, has arrived with UX improvements. It’s been a long time since Hugin has seen active development. However, the few people still working on this project do make regular releases with useful ch… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 18 December 2022 This has been a really busy week for everybody. Highlights: new releases of Krita, LibreCAD, Kdenlive, MuseScore, Ardour, Rosegarden, and more. GIMP and JPEG-XL The importing and exporting of 8/16-bit per channel CMYK/A JPEG-XL files has f… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly-ish recap — 11 December 2022 Earlier this week, I did a quick poll to ask readers what time of week is the most convenient one for them to read these recaps. The majority said “whenever”, with “weekend” taking the second place. Weekend it is then. Highlights of the week: new relea… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly-ish recap — 7 December 2022 Week highlights: new releases of RawTherapee, Zrythm, VCV Rack, Cardinal, a release candidate of MuseScore 4.0, and more. Krita updates Most recently, a lot of activity in the project has been revolving around two tracks: The team is port… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly-ish recap — 30 November 2022 GIMP 2.99.14 This is an almost too good of a release this close to v3.0: floating selections out, outlined text in, Align tool rewrite, pasting multiple layers as a single one, and more. I published a review of the most important changes t… Continue Reading →
