Libre Graphics World

Back in November we introduced you to MacroFusion, a new photography application for merging exposure brackets and focus stacks. Since then Dariusz Duma released several new versions, the latest one — yesterday.

ODS Engineering team released a new version of ODS Studio, formerly known as BlendME — a set of Blender add-ons for architects.  

Blender Foundation has just released Blender v2.62, another major milestone in the new development cycle that features improvements in multiple critical areas.

Krzysztof Marczak continues his work on bringing even more fun to Mandelbulber, a free app for rendering 3D fractals. The newly released v1.11 features a more realistic fog effect.

Timur Hairulin keeps improving CGRU in pursuit of a making a perfect render farm management tool. Latest version got support for Cinema 4D, but there's a backlog of changes over last few months to mention.

Artifex has just made the world a better place by releasing a new version of Ghostscript, an excellent PostScript and PDF interpreter. The newly released v9.05 continues the work on ICC-based color rendering workflow first introduced in v9.00.

Carlos Lopez et al. released a new version of Synfig Studio, a great free 2D vector animation package. The release deals with imperfections of available interpolation methods, UI and Bezier curves editing.

Yesterday Google announced Summer of Code 2012 program that will run for the 8th time and attract hundreds of students from around the world to improve free and open source software. We've collected some insights for you.

Due to blackout of gphoto.org the new version of gPhoto, a library for downloading pictures from digital cameras, went completely unnoticed. This is the first new version in almost a year, and it comes with support for nearly 30 new devices.

LibreOffice project started working on a new C++ library to take care of your legacy Corel DRAW files. Calligra Suite team is following closely.