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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

There’s a lot of conversation about using AI and neural networks in art lately. One direction this technology is evolving in is producing better looking upscaled images. The software has to pretty much paint in the details that weren’t ther…

Releases like this are too rare to disregard and thus all the more to treasure.
In one swift motion the team is doing away with floating selections and bringing strokes/outlines for text. But this has been a bumpy road.

Floating selection buried…

Hopefully, not many people will object to shorter yet more regular weekly-ish
recaps!

GIMP updates

Version 2.99.14 is supposed to be released soon and whenever it comes, it will
arrive with two more major changes.
The most important one de…

It’s been a while since my last weekly recap. A lot has happened since then, more on that some other time. Let’s get to the point.

GIMP is getting text strokes

This has been a very long time in the making. The patch adding text…