Libre Graphics World

The history of this project is not exactly typical. A few guys gathered in an off-topic section at the linux.org.ru forum to talk about guitar amp/cab simulation on Linux. And mostly, they were unhappy with existing options.

Week highlights: GIMP gets Lua and JavaScript support, Krita gets notifications for new versions availability, new releases of G`MIC, DJV, and Shotcut, more exciting news on sculpting tools in Blender 2.81, a bunch of great tutorials and artwork, and more.

Week highlights: great new features in GIMP, Krita, and RawTherapee, new digiKam release, better sculpting tools coming to Blender 2.81, GSoC project in Pitivi bringing better UI and features, Ardour improving regions workflow.

Week highlights: major changes in GIMP, exciting new features in Krita, new releases of Luminance HDR, Exiv2, Scribus, and FontForge, gazillion of news in the Blender department, new ArmorPaint releases.

While I do owe you quite a few weeklies by now, I'm using this Friday afternoon as an opportunity to talk about something important.

At Libre Graphics Meeting 2019 in Saarbrücken, I had the fun and privilege to do a quick interview with Pat David, founder of Pixls.us and contributor to GIMP. We talked about how his project evolved and where he thinks we are with free/libre photography tools presently.

Libre Graphics Meeting 2019 kicked off with talks and workshops today, but in some ways, it's not the same as before. Earlier this year, in March, we lost Peter Linnell to cancer. And it's something I want to talk about.

Recent highlights: new version of AzPainter and RawTherapee, GIMP and Krita preparing for respective releases, Blender keeps getting tons of improvements, GSoC 2019 students and projects announced.

Double-week highlights: GIMP 2.10.10 release, better tablets support in Krita, a ton of changes in Blender and FreeCAD, the release of Spring animated movie.

Week highlights: new releases of FontForge, Scribus, darktable, Qtractor, and Radium, upcoming Inkscape hackfest, enhancements in ArmorPaint and Storyboarder, some great work in the video department.