Libre Graphics World. Blog

MacroFusion updated with some improvements

Alexandre — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:49:00 GMT

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.

Alexandre 20. Feb, 2012 1 Comment

macrofusion, enfuse, photography

ODS Studio updated to benefit from Blender 2.6x advantages

Alexandre — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:34:24 GMT

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

Alexandre 19. Feb, 2012

ods-studio, blendme, bim, architecture

Blender 2.62 released

Alexandre — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:49:12 GMT

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

Alexandre 16. Feb, 2012 1 Comment

blender, cycles

More realistic fog effect available in Mandelbulber

Alexandre — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:50:00 GMT

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.

Alexandre 15. Feb, 2012

mandelbulber, fractals

CGRU gets support for Blender Cycles and Cinema 4D

Alexandre — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:32:51 GMT

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.

Alexandre 13. Feb, 2012 10 Comments

cgru, render-farms

Ghostscript 9.05 makes headway with color managed workflow

Alexandre — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:50:00 GMT

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.

Alexandre 10. Feb, 2012

ghostscript, pdf, printing

Synfig Studio gets clamped interpolation method

Alexandre — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:30:20 GMT

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.

Alexandre 9. Feb, 2012 1 Comment

synfig, animation

Some insights on Google Summer of Code

Alexandre — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:06:21 GMT

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.

Alexandre 5. Feb, 2012 1 Comment

google, gsoc, gsoc2012

Gphoto updated to support few dozens of new cameras

Alexandre — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:48:12 GMT

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.

Alexandre 3. Feb, 2012 3 Comments

gphoto, tethering, photography

Support for Corel DRAW files in free software gets another chance

Alexandre — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:57:56 GMT

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

Alexandre 1. Feb, 2012 10 Comments

libreoffice, cdr, re-lab, reverse-engineering