Libre Graphics World

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 in Krita.

Week highlights: Microsoft joins Blender Fund, new features in GIMP, Krita, FreeCAD, Kdenlive, and Pitivi, new releases of BlenderBIM, LuxCore, Zrythm, and QJackCtl.

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.

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 do there.

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!

This is a the second part of the interview with Paul Davis, lead developer of Ardour, a free/libre digital audio workstation.

This is the first part of a long interview with Paul Davis, founder and lead developer of Ardour, free/libre digital audio workstation.

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 perfectly usable right at the point of forking from Sodipodi back in 2003, I'm speaking as the eyewitness here. The v1.0 release should've happened years ago but the team took a very conservative approach.

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 everyone listens to. So I listened some more. This is an interview with Ell, one of the several core GIMP developers.

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 done, enve is becoming SVG animation authoring tool.