Libre Graphics World News

During Linux Audio Conference 2013 the MOD team presented their digital pedalboard that runs Linux and uses LV2 effects and instruments.

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Alexandre Prokoudine 22. May, 2013

lv2, mod

Working in 3D to render stylized 2D line art — how crazy is that? Not too crazy and even pretty awesome. Stable version of Blender recently got a new tool for that, and there are some other interesting ongoing developments.

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Alexandre Prokoudine 20. May, 2013

blender, freestyle, npr, interview

Harry van Haaren is preparing to release Sorcer, a new polyphonic wavetable synth in LV2, and is attempting to crowdfund the development.

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Alexandre Prokoudine 19. May, 2013

sorcer, lv2

Blender 2.67 was released last week with a 3D printing toolbox. LGW spoke to Dolf Veenvliet, Bart Veldhuizen (Shapeways, Blendernation), and Rich Borrett (Ponoko) about the new tools and the future of 3D printing.

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Alexandre Prokoudine 16. May, 2013

3d-printing, blender, shapeways, ponoko, training

Richard Hughes has just announced the first stable release of colord, a system service for managing, installing and generating color profiles to accurately preserve color fidelity between input and output devices.

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Alexandre Prokoudine 13. May, 2013 1 Comment

colord, color-management

Can you feel it in the air? There seems to be an urge to port useful features from less actively into more actively developed software projects.

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Alexandre Prokoudine 13. May, 2013

mypaint, krita

Synfig Studio has just been updated to feature performance improvements, simplified plug-ins execution, various keyframes improvements, and the switch to conventional terminology.

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Alexandre Prokoudine 13. May, 2013

synfig, animation

The Internet is buzzing with news from Adobe MAX 2013. How is the switch to subscriptions going to affect the industry and free software? And how does free software stand against upcoming creative cloud apps?

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Alexandre Prokoudine 10. May, 2013 14 Comments

gimp, inkscape, scribus, darktable

Blender Foundation finally announced new version of the most actively developed free 3D modeling and animation package. While we are preparing some extended coverage, here's a list of some interesting new features you can already lay your hands on.

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Alexandre Prokoudine 8. May, 2013

blender, cycles, freestyle

Jonathan Ball from pokedstudio recently posted his new work created with Blender and Cycles which served as an incentive to look into his earlier work.

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Alexandre Prokoudine 7. May, 2013

blender, cycles, pokedstudio

If the story of making Lightworks a free application taught us anything, it's patience. After three years it's finally possible to download and run the awards-winning non-linear video editor on Linux, for free.

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Alexandre Prokoudine 1. May, 2013 1 Comment

lightworks

Every fractal equation carries around an unlimited amount of worlds to explore. Even in generative graphics 3D fractals are often considered to be entirely different species. But Bernard Bittler found a way to fuse them into more conventional art. And it's a dark art with a twist.

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Alexandre Prokoudine 26. Apr, 2013 6 Comments

mypaint

Just when you think the DWG story is buried for good, a gang of brave tomb raiders prove otherwise. LibreCAD team started working on their own DWG importer, and FSF is trying to figure out what to do with LibreDWG.

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Alexandre Prokoudine 22. Apr, 2013 1 Comment

dwg, libredwg

Since last night unstable version of GIMP has canvas rotation. The new feature is mostly useful for digital painting and drawing, as well as for preparing textures in CG, where you need to work on parts of a picture while viewing them from a different angle.

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Alexandre Prokoudine 21. Apr, 2013 15 Comments

gimp

The rumour has it that real photographers don't use GIMP. Here in the parallel universe, on entirely different Earth, they actually do. Meet Rosie Hardie, Manchester-based studio and event photographer.

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Alexandre Prokoudine 19. Apr, 2013 14 Comments

gimp, photography

During Libre Graphics Meeting 2013 in Madrid developers of MyPaint, GIMP, Krita, and Tupi discussed a possibility to create a simple common file format for sharing packs of brushes.

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Alexandre Prokoudine 17. Apr, 2013 12 Comments

gimp, krita, mypaint

Unstable version of Scribus finally got an initial support for Microsoft Publisher documents. For that it uses the code written by LibreOffice team. How good is it?

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Alexandre Prokoudine 16. Apr, 2013 1 Comment

add-ons, publisher, libreoffice, re-lab

If you follow GNOME's designer Jakub Steiner, you couldn't possibly miss his recent posts featuring Blender as icon design tool. Is GNOME team moving away from Inkscape? We asked Jakub for comments.

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Alexandre Prokoudine 12. Apr, 2013 8 Comments

blender, gnome, cycles

It looks like free and proprietary software vendors agree on quite a few things. Earlier this week Guitarix, free effects processor, and Pianoteq, piano modeling software, were updated to feature LV2 versions.

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Alexandre Prokoudine 12. Apr, 2013 4 Comments

pianoteq, lv2, guitarix

W3C published a new working draft of SVG 2.0 that features substantial changes among fixes and smaller improvements. Some of these changes indicate a further drive towards artistic use of SVG.

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Alexandre Prokoudine 10. Apr, 2013 7 Comments

svg, inkscape