GIMP 2.8: understanding UI changes

GIMP 2.8: understanding UI changes

There's quite a lot to tell about GIMP 2.8: better interface, new features, improved tools and so on. Would you like to use it to its full potential?

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Tube Open Movie Founders on Art, War and Blender

Tube Open Movie Founders on Art, War and Blender

Have you noticed the recent fundraising craze? Games and gadgets are incredibly successful objectives, but does it work for art? Apparently it does.

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Apertus goes 4K, KinoRaw to provide workflow

Apertus goes 4K, KinoRaw to provide workflow

Recently Apertus, an open camera project, announced plans to create a new camera built on top of a 4K sensor.

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MyPaint and GEGL: porting evaluation begins

MyPaint and GEGL: porting evaluation begins

GIMP and MyPaint projects have a closer relationship than one might assume. And there’s a chance they could get to the next stage.

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GIMP 2.8 released, next version to get high bit depth precision

GIMP 2.8 released, next version to get high bit depth precision

After 3.5 years of blood, sweat and tears the GIMP team announced the release of GIMP 2.8. But good things come in pairs.

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Wacom drivers for X.org got Intuos5 support

Wacom drivers for X.org got Intuos5 support

Linuxwacom developers released another update of drivers for the Linux kernel and X.org, as well as of libwacom.

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LightWorks for Linux: how long will it take?

LightWorks for Linux: how long will it take?

Last week EditShare terminated rumours about LightWorks version for Linux being vaporware and published a screencast.

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Blender 2.63 gets BMesh, 2.64 to get new compositor

Blender 2.63 gets BMesh, 2.64 to get new compositor

The news travel far and wide: Blender finally got BMesh last week after 5 years of development.

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Exiv2 starts writing metadata to Canon RAW CR2 files

Exiv2 starts writing metadata to Canon RAW CR2 files

Andreas Huggel released a major update to Exiv2, a free library and an application for reading and writing Exif and XMP image metadata.

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LV2 from developers’ standpoint

LV2 from developers’ standpoint

When it comes to designing and implementing APIs, hell is often on the verge of breaking loose. LV2, the free API for virtual instruments and audio effects, is no different.

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Libcdr resurrects Waldo, gets basic spot colors support

Libcdr resurrects Waldo, gets basic spot colors support

The Corel DRAW files reverse-engineering story gets “curiouser and curiouser”. The libcdr project managed to do something even Corel was not capable of.

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GIMP Magazine #1: call for content

GIMP Magazine #1: call for content

With BlenderArt, LGMag and Code:Free magazines around would you be surprised if someone started a dedicated GIMP Magazine? And that's what happened.

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Google Summer of Code 2012: digital media all the way

Google Summer of Code 2012: digital media all the way

Last night the stream of people willing to find out what projects were picked for Google Summer of Code 2012 brought Google's servers to their knees.

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