Libre Graphics World

We already “briefly” discussed how GIMP was doing in 2011, and now it's time for Inkscape and Scribus.

I've just realized that today is exactly a year after the epic “What happened to GIMP 2.8” story that caused quite a stir. Could there be an even better overview? Challenge accepted :)

New unstable version of GIMP is out with improvements and bugfixes. If no serious bugs are discovered, this could be the last release before the final v2.8.

Florian Höch released a new version of dispcalGUI, a free display calibration and profiling tool.

The GSoC related series of postings continues. Let's talk about Inkscape. As organization they have been participating since the very beginning of Google Summer of Code program, that is, since 2005

This Monday the Google Summer of Code 2011 program was officially over. Regarding main graphics organizations such as GIMP, Inkscape and Blender it was most successful: barely any losses and enough new features and polish to keep you busy checking them in weeks to come.

According to minutes from the last meeting of Blender developers work on 2.60 has started, with some exciting new fetaures already making their way main SVN branch.

One of the most favoured retouching tools that Photoshop users miss in GIMP is a Liquify filter. The existing iWarp filter has always been not very easy to use, and it lacks certain features. This is about to change thanks to Michael Muré who has been working on a new Warp Transform tool since May.

Elvis Stansvik continues his Google Summer of Code project working on real tables tool in Scribus. Even though most features are currently available via scripts only, there already is some user interface available.

Last night Google announced projects that were accepted for Google Summer of Code 2011 program. The amount of graphics and multimedia related ones is rather large, you can see them all here. Instead, let's talk about trends.

One of the most exciting things every year regarding development is annual Google Summer of Code program that helps students around the world getting involved with free software projects. A week ago many software projects submitted an application to participate in GSoC2011 and today we finally know which ones are in.

A little later than expected Google announced that it's doing annual Google Summer of Code program again, for the seventh time.