Libre Arts: New in GIMP: paint tools can autoexpand layers now Automatically expanding layers is a new feature coming in the next development release of GIMP. Let’s see how it works, where it excels and where it needs further improvement. Expanding the layers Let’s say we have a 4K image with a smaller… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: GIMP 3.0 finally has a release schedule Jehan Pages who is the lead developer and maintainer of GIMP made an announcement on Patreon yesterday. GIMP 3.0 is tentatively scheduled for release in May 2024. The plan is to announce the release at the next Libre Graphics Meeting conference in Fran… Continue Reading →
Rust GameDev: This Month in Rust GameDev #49 – August 2023 Welcome to the 49th issue of the Rust GameDev Workgroup’s monthly newsletter. Rust is a systems language pursuing the trifecta: safety, concurrency, and speed. These goals are well-aligned with game development. We hope to build an inviting ecosystem… Continue Reading →
Rust GameDev: Rust Gamedev Meetup 32 The 32nd Rust Gamedev Meetup took place on November 11th. You can watch the recording of the meetup here on YouTube. The meetup took place on the Rust Gamedev YouTube and Twitch. The meetups take place on the second Saturday of every month via the … Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Is this radical redesign of GIMP possible now? Disclaimer: this post is an extended transcript of the video below. If you’ve been around long enough, you probably remember a project called Glimpse. Originally it was an attempt to create a fork of GIMP for the name change. Then that pro… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 7 November 2023 Week highlights: new major releases of Audacity, BlenderBIM, SpectMorph, new features in GIMP. Edited transcript of the video goes below. GIMP Jacob Boerema added support for 16- and 32- bit per channel DDS files in GIMP, which should make quite… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly recap — 30 October 2023 Week highlights: new features coming to GIMP and Krita, Scribus is getting a facelift with Indigo UI, FreeCAD is undergoing a sketching workflow revamp, Ardour is getting Launchpad X support. As an experiment, I made a video version of the recap. I’m g… Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly-ish recap — 22 October 2023 Week highlights: new releases of LightZone, OSPRay, and Ardour, exciting changes coming to Krita. Inkscape A huge amount of changes lately come from Daniel Boles and Tavmjong Bah, both working on the GTK4 port of the program. Meanwhile the rest of the … Continue Reading →
Libre Arts: Weekly-ish recap — 16 October 2023 Quite a few things happened since the last recap. Let’s focus on the main ones. Highlights: new major releases of Krita and Ardour, major changes in FreeCAD, two commercial wavetable synths get open-sourced, Focusrite lends a hand to a drivers/UI devel… Continue Reading →
Rust GameDev: Rust Gamedev Meetup 31 The 31th Rust Gamedev Meetup took place on October 14th. You can watch the recording of the meetup here on YouTube. The meetup will take place on the Rust Gamedev YouTube and Twitch. The meetups take place on the second Saturday of every month via … Continue Reading →
