Libre Graphics World gets rebranded, moves to a new domain name
This is a quick note for everyone reading this website via RSS feeds only. I've finally pulled the plug and rebranded Libre Graphics World to Libre Arts. This feed and website won't be updated...
View ArticleWeek recap — 9 December 2020
Highlights: new releases of Krita and Shotcut, new features in Siril, Blender, Olive, some interesting ongoing development in darktable. Graphics GIMP developers have been doing some bugfixing,...
View ArticleWeek recap — 1 December 2020
Week highlights: new major releases of Blender, Font Manager, DrumGizmo, amSynth, new features in Krita, Olive, new node-based image editor called Cascade. Graphics A lot of work on GIMP last week was...
View ArticleMulti-week recap — 25 November 2020
Highlights: new releases of GIMP, Scribus, FontForge, Synfig, Tahoma2D, LibreDWG, Giada, Ardour, new features in Krita, Inkscape, Olive, Kdenlive, a new take at fullscreen color management with HDR...
View ArticleScribus 1.5.6 and beyond
New unstable version of Scribus is available with several interesting improvements such as PDF-based printing, PDF 1.6 compatibility with OpenType fonts embedding, and more changes. This is originally...
View ArticleGIMP 2.99.2 vs 2.10.x: which one do you pick?
Now that the GIMP team is back to releasing both stable and unstable updates, here is the question that a lot of people will be asking. Should they go for 2.99.2? Or should they stick to the stable...
View ArticleRIP Bill Morrow
The Cinelerra community is mourning the loss of W.P. Morrow aka Good Guy who passed away at the age of 66 after being hit by a truck while cycling near his home in Longmont, Colorado, last week. Bill...
View ArticleWeek recap — 3 November 2020
Highlights: Blender Conference was online this year, new releases of BlenderBIM, Pitivi, Shotcut, Qtractor, new free/libre VST3 plugins for Linux, new features in Inkscape, Krita, FreeCAD, Dust3D....
View ArticleMulti-week recap — 23 October 2020
There have been just so many news since my last week recap. Unfortunately, these days, I have to prioritize for my family. So this is going to be an update that covers both recent and not so recent...
View ArticleWeek recap — 18 August 2020
Weekly highlights: new releases of Siril, Kdenlive, and Zrythm, EEVEE is getting more sky models, LibreDWG gets v0.11 release and goes beta, Inkscape's GSoC students are having great progress....
View ArticleWeek recap — 11 August 2020
Weekly highlights: first alpha release of Akira, new releases of darktable, Pinta, Synfig, Blender, and Qtractor, new features in Olive, Shotcut, and Ardour, more progress with storyboarding support...
View ArticleWeek recap — 4 August 2020
Week highlights: Microsoft joins Blender Fund, new features in GIMP, Krita, FreeCAD, Kdenlive, and Pitivi, new releases of BlenderBIM, LuxCore, Zrythm, and QJackCtl. Graphics GIMP developers are...
View ArticleWeek recap — 21 July 2020
Week highlights: new releases of Blender, MusE, Zrythm, MuseScore, new release of darktable shaping up, lots of improvements across multiple major projects like FreeCAD, LibreCAD, BlenderBIM, Siril....
View ArticleHow to use math input in GIMP
One semi-hidden feature in GIMP is that you can do simple calculations in the spinbox widgets where you input numeric values. This tutorials explains how it works and all the advanced things you can...
View ArticleWeek recap — 13 July 2020
Okay, this is a little embarassing. Certain family-related stuff kept me from posting more, so there's an almost 4 months long gap. Let's quickly amend some of that. And sorry about all that! Graphics...
View ArticlePodcast ep. 003 - Paul Davis on fixing big Linux audio issues
This is a the second part of the interview with Paul Davis, lead developer of Ardour, a free/libre digital audio workstation. In the first part, we spoke mostly about all things Ardour. But now it's...
View ArticlePodcast ep. 002 - Paul Davis on the deep rewrite of Ardour DAW
This is the first part of a long interview with Paul Davis, founder and lead developer of Ardour, free/libre digital audio workstation. We covered many subjects throughout the interview: how much...
View ArticleGoing above and beyond with Inkscape 1.0, interview with developers
After almost 17 years in the making, Inkscape 1.0 is out. Let's be fair: this is one of those cases when the humble version number doesn't nearly represent what's actually in the box. The software was...
View ArticleYou’d have to be crazy to rewrite GIMP in anything — Interview with Ell
There aren't many things as empowering as seeing a seemingly random person starting to hack on a free software project with a huge codebase and quickly grow into a major contributor that suddenly...
View ArticleWeek recap — 24 March 2020
Double-week highlights: major new releases of darktable, FontForge, LuxCoreRender/BlendLuxCore, and LilyPond, new release candidates of Natron and Dust3D, first milestone for VR support in Blender is...
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