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Peter Hutterer on the GNOME applet for Wacom tablets

Peter Hutterer on the GNOME applet for Wacom tablets

With better color management support and a new Wacom configuration applet the newly released GNOME 3.2 looks like a solid improvement for us creative folks.

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Getting CMYK colors from Inkscape to Scribus for printing

Getting CMYK colors from Inkscape to Scribus for printing

The question of getting CMYK PDF output from Inkscape is a very often asked one. Let's talk about getting CMYK colors from Inkscape to Scribus.

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Richard Hughes on color management in Linux and GNOME

Richard Hughes on color management in Linux and GNOME

An interview with Richard Hughes, principal developer of GNOME Color Manager and colord. Highlights: what's new with the project, changes in the Linux printing system, future plans.

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Customized MyPaint gains animation for a new open movie project

Customized MyPaint gains animation for a new open movie project

One of the reasons we like open movies is because they are real world tests for free software. Blender Institute's movies push Blender up the production curve, so does Morevna project re Synfig Studio. And just like big studios develop in-house solutions for their big animation projects, open movies lead to interesting developments as well. This time it's about MyPaint which is getting a traditional animation tool.

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The ultimate quest of bringing Visio support to LibreOffice

The ultimate quest of bringing Visio support to LibreOffice

Today LGW's guests are Eilidh McAdam and Fridrich Strba who implemented support for VSD documents (Microsoft Visio) in LibreOffice within GSoC2011.

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Interview with Thomas Krijnen on IfcOpenShell, Blender and architecture

Interview with Thomas Krijnen on IfcOpenShell, Blender and architecture

Today we are talking to Thomas Krijnen, architect and programmer from the Netherlands, who works on IfcOpenShell project to assist opens source acceptance in BIM.

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GIMP 2.6 for Photographers

GIMP 2.6 for Photographers

Today we review “GIMP 2.6 for Photographers”, a book written by Klaus Goelker and published by Rocky Nook in 2011.

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Few notes on RawTherapee 3.0

Few notes on RawTherapee 3.0

Few days ago RawTherapee 3.0, a free digital photography application, was finally released to the masses. We thought we'd do a short review of it.

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GIMP 2.6 Cookbook by Packt Publishing

GIMP 2.6 Cookbook by Packt Publishing

Packt Publishing recently released a new book called "GIMP 2.6 Cookbook", written by Juan Manuel Ferreyra. Today we are reviewing it.

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Saving Everything Visible in GIMP

Saving Everything Visible in GIMP

In this GIMP tutorial we introduce you to the concept of projections and explain how to save everything visible in GIMP's image window to a file.

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