Help Tupi Animation Editor Support Graphic Tablets MyPaint and GEGL: porting evaluation begins GIMP 2.8: understanding UI changes Tube Open Movie Founders on Art, War and Blender GIMP 2.8 released, next version to get high bit depth precision Apertus goes 4K, KinoRaw to provide workflow Wacom drivers for X.org got Intuos5 support LightWorks for Linux: how long will it take? Blender 2.63 gets BMesh, 2.64 to get new compositor Exiv2 starts writing metadata to Canon RAW CR2 files LV2 from developers’ standpoint Libcdr resurrects Waldo, gets basic spot colors support GIMP Magazine #1: call for content Google Summer of Code 2012: digital media all the way LV2 1.0 released, what’s next? Synfig Studio 0.63.05 released with recursive outline grow ArgyllCMS 1.4.0 released with iterative improvements Libre Graphics Meeting 2012 in two weeks Linux Audio Conference 2012 starts today LibreDWG controversy: 2 months later HPLIP gets print and fax queue analyzer CGRU render farm server embraces Windows Corel DRAW X6 file format subdued by libcdr GEGL updated, GIMP 2.8 goes release candidate Misa Digital Kitara and being open to the world DIGImend makes low-budget graphic tablets just work on Linux GNOME 3.4 for artists? Hell, yes! openNURBS 5.0 gets support for Rhino 5 Source code of render farm management system Duma to be released Mesh gradients in Cairo now official Color management module for KDE available now New hardware acceleration code landed to upstream GEGL ArgyllCMS gets support for Spyder4 and ColorHug colorimeters What multimedia projects participate in Google Summer of Code 2012? The goat sees GIMP 2.7.5 release, invades SVG Cleaner hunts down Corel DRAW elements Wacom drivers for Linux updated Morevna Project raising funds to complete animation demo MyPaint and Blender powered open animation movie released Embroidery design on Linux now possible with Thred Introducing Libre Graphics Research Unit MacroFusion updated with some improvements ODS Studio updated to benefit from Blender 2.6x advantages Blender 2.62 released More realistic fog effect available in Mandelbulber CGRU gets support for Blender Cycles and Cinema 4D Ghostscript 9.05 makes headway with color managed workflow Synfig Studio gets clamped interpolation method Some insights on Google Summer of Code Gphoto updated to support few dozens of new cameras Support for Corel DRAW files in free software gets another chance Basic GPU-side rendering and processing in GIMP available SVG Cleaner becomes faster, removes MS Visio elements Unstable Scribus gets support for InDesign snippets What’s up with DWG adoption in free software? GIMP 2.8 gets a new default brush pack DSP programming language Faust is getting LV2 support Sigil, a free EPUB editor, gets spellchecking and localized interface Colord 0.1.16 further improves color management workflows All of Wacom support infrastructure for Linux gets an update What’s coming at FOSDEM 2012 ColorHug is shipping Meet Gradiator, a free CSS3 gradients generator Introducing SVG Cleaner Scribus 1.4.0 in a nutshell 2011 for Inkscape and Scribus Paratype releases PT Mono typeface LibreCAD 1.0.0 released, v2 in works What hasn’t happened to GIMP 2.8 yet Holiday greetings Mango project starts DVD pre-sale, posts concept art teaser Fragmentarium 0.9 released with improvements and updated samples library BrainDistrict releases PaintSupreme, resurrects MainActor Hugin 2011.4.0 further automates panorama stitching First public version of libwacom released Studying type design with Fontmatrix HPLIP gets autodetection of missing plug-ins Mandelbulber 1.09 starts rendering 3D fractals on GPU Blender 2.61 released with GPU based rendering and motion tracking News Cycle font gets Greek and Cyrillic support GIMP and GEGL updated, GEGL unlocked for toolkits What’s up with Alchemy, the experimental drawing app DispcalGUI gets support for colord and ICC profiles database from SUSE 5 free typography projects you still can support this year TVPaint Animation 10 released with official Linux support Synfig Studio gets advanced outlines and pressure support in the Draw tool Lasersaur, an open source laser cutter, is nearing completion Free DDP mastering tools for Linux, Windows and Mac updated Cinepaint resurrected, v1.0 released LuxRender gets multi-GPU support and layered materials GEGL developer sponsored to improve hardware acceleration support Bluefish 2.2.0 becomes faster, adds Google Go support MyPaint 1.0: there can never be too much awesomeness Wacom drivers for X.org updated GStreamer Conference 2011 videos published First beta of Ardour 3 released The Google+ Pages craze and what’s there for us Open Educational Resources for Typography kickstarter needs your support Loomer is working on LV2 version of its plug-ins MacroFusion delivers Enfuse GUI for Linux