Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 21 May 2023 Week highlights: Blender 3.6 beta is out, MLT gets more 10-bit video support, VGC Illustration gets UI update and new tools, DrMr sampler gets a new life in a fork. GIMP The GIMP team is meeting live this week somewhere in the EU, for the … Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 14 May 2023 This is a very brief recap. Highlights: further steps towards non-destructive editing in GIMP, new features in Krita, new releases of OpenToonz and PlugData. GIMP Two patches by CmykStudent have been merged to the main development branch: … Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 7 May 2023 Week highlights: Google Summer of Code 2023 project announced, new releases of DreamWorks MoonRay, BlenderBIM, dav1d, new features in FreeCAD and Ardour. GSoC 2023 projects Google announced Summer of Code 2023 projects this week. Just to n… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: GSoC 2023 projects have been announced Google Summer of Code 2023 projects have just been announced, so I thought I’d do a quick overview of what’s coming. This year, some things are totally expected, but there are also some very nice surprises. Let’s get on with this. GIMP Las… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 30 April 2023 Week highlights: new releases of Kdenlive, Ardour, Audacity, Brickworks, Dragonfly Reverb, new features in GIMP, Krita, FreeCAD, Mayo. GIMP GIMP is still getting small improvements despite the shift of the focus towards stabilizing for v3…. Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Audacity 3.3.0 released The release notes for Audacity 3.3.0 say it’s “focused on under-the-hood changes”. It’s true, but there are some very useful and long-anticipated new features too. Number one feature, in my opinion, is the newly added musical ti… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 23 April 2023 Week highlights: new releases of BeeRef’s fork, Armory3D, and topologicpy, new features in GIMP and FreeCAD, Inkscape is looking for an experienced GTK4 developer. GIMP We shouldn’t be expecting lots of new features at this sta… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 16 April 2023 Week highlights: new versions of Curtail, Pitivi, and Zrythm, new features in GIMP, UX/UI updates in FreeCAD, updates of Krita and Blender add-ons. GIMP The Search Actions dialog now shows menu paths and is able to locate GEGL operations t… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 9 April 2023 This is a shorter-than-usual recap. Week highlights: OpenShot 3.1.0 released, GIMP and Krita get new features, Jabier Arraiza is leaving Inkscape. GIMP Several nice little patches are making their way to future GIMP 3.0. Now when you try t… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 2 April 2023 Week highlights: new releases of Blender, QCAD, Qtractor, first pre-release of Inkscape 1.3, new features in GIMP, FreeCAD, Ardour. GIMP CmykStudent added initial support for the QOI file format that is intended to be a replacement for PNG… Continue Reading →