Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 20 July 2025 Week highlights: new Blender, RapidRAW, Gradia, Sigil, and Hydrogen releases; new darktable UI prototypes. Gradia 1.7.0 I last looked at this new screenshot annotation app about a month ago. Alexander has introduced quite a few changes sin… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 13 July 2025 Week highlights: new releases of Krita, Bonsai, OBS Studio, and Kdenlive; new features in GIMP, FontForge, and Ardour. GIMP Here are some of the latest changes in the development branch: CmykStudent’s patch that adds support for MyPaint v… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 6 July 2025 Week highlights: new digiKam release, new features coming to GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour. GIMP CmykStudent created a patch adding support for MyPaint v2 brushes (1.5+ really) with the exception of spectral blending. There are three addition… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 29 June 2025 This post consolidates events of the last two weeks. Highlights: new releases of GIMP, darktable, Cardinal; new features in FreeCAD and Ardour. GIMP 3.1.2 This is the first release in the series leading up to v3.2 expected, oh well, frankl… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 15 June 2025 Week highlights: new release of Audacity and Kdenlive, new features in GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour. GIMP Jehan created a tag for GIMP 3.1.2 in the desktop files, so the first unstable release in the 3.1 series is likely coming soon. This wi… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 8 June 2025 Week highlights: new release of RawTherapee, new features in GIMP, and new apps for screenshot annotation and film photography. The X11Libre drama It’s hard to avoid this topic. In a nutshell: Enrico Weigelt started contributing to xserve… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 1 June 2025 Week highlights: new features in GIMP, new versions of PDF Arranger, Odin 2, and Tumult; new VAMP plugins. GIMP Two interesting patches merged to GIMP this week: Importing legacy drop shadows in PSD (MR #2297). Loading layered EXR files (… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Odin 2 synth gets a UI revamp Odin 2 is a free (GPLv3+) 24-voice polyphonic semi-modular synth with a modulation matrix and microtuning support (imports Scala files). The initial release happened almost 5 years ago. Everyone got pretty excited, and for a good reason: it was a good … Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 25 May 2025 Week highlights: new releases of Sigil, PipeWire, Qtractor, and Millisecond; new features in GIMP. GIMP Three notable patches landed in GIMP recently: CmykStudent added a new option for the Text tool that I wish was there in Inkscape: out… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Millisecond helps set up Linux for real-time audio Does it take a Millisecond to set up your Linux for real-time audio now? Not really, no. You still need to fiddle with system-level configuration. But this little program by Gahel shows you exactly where your system settings could be improved, gives ac… Continue Reading →
