paperdigits @paperdigits@mastodon.social

« #GIMP has been developed as a community effort since very early on, after its original authors left the project. This begs the question of sustainability when contributors wish to stay longer while not being able to afford being penniless volunteers forever. » https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/07/27/support-gimp-developers-sustainable-development/

After a big month of hard work, I'm happy to release today a new website for my webcomic Pepper&Carrot! It was a rewrite I made from scratch this time: https://www.peppercarrot.com/

More infos and report on the blog-post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article853/new-website-for-peppercarrot

#darktable // https://tinyurl.com/bt9acc7u
... chroma evolves at constant lightness, saturation evolves at constant brilliance ...

And we remind we crowdfund for anyone wishing to make it more sustainable ! 🤗 It would make the situation stabler ⚖️ for ZeMarmot project so that we can continue improving GIMP for years to come … 😊
https://liberapay.com/ZeMarmot/
https://patreon.com/zemarmot
https://en.tipeee.com/zemarmot

GTK3 just got Windows Ink support merged in, which means that @GIMP_Official 3 will get improved graphics tablet support on Windows (ink drivers additionally to legacy Wintab ones; a long awaited feature) ! 🥳 Thanks to the awesome work by Luca Bacci ! 👏

Flatpak, the project itself, is now on OpenCollective. If you like how far it has come and would like to see development continue please consider donating them a couple bucks.

https://opencollective.com/flatpak

#flatpak #linux

List of Useful Free Software Graphics Resources

Sharing is very appreciated.

PIXLS
https://pixls.us

LibreAV
https://libreav.org

Libre Graphics Tools
https://libre.graphics

L. Graphics World
http://libregraphicsworld.org

L. Graphics Meeting
https://libregraphicsmeeting.org

L. Graphics Club
https://libregraphics.club

LibreArts
https://librearts.org

Open Source Design
https://opensourcedesign.net

O. Source Publishing
http://osp.kitchen

Beautiful Open
https://beautifulopen.com

#FreeSoftware

Basic photo processing for beginners in darktable 3.6 :

https://youtu.be/5CmsxxxsMDs

A new version of digiKam, KDE's powerful image-managing software for photographers, has been released. digiKam 7.3.0 includes improved slideshows, support for more formats, and a backend ExifTool for image metadata.

https://www.digikam.org/news/2021-07-12-7.3.0_release_announcement/

If you're down with #darktable you can support one of the main developer's efforts to work full time on the project!

https://en.liberapay.com/aurelienpierre/

Currently they're nowhere close to a living wage, let's change that!

#funding #foss #photography #postprocess #post #edit

Thanks Phoronix for entertaining the confusion darktable/Adobe Lightroom. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Darktable-3.6-Released

No, darktable is not a free replacement of Lightroom, it targets different users and has made different design choices (like enabling fine-grained control). Feeding that comparison is only going to frustrate LR users who may consider switching by setting wrong expectations.

#darktable 3.6 is out now.

Release post : https://www.darktable.org/2021/07/darktable-3-6/

Windows/Mac binaries : https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/releases/tag/release-3.6.0

Linux packages : https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=graphics:darktable:stable&package=darktable

Don't forget the release party at the end of the day (16:00 UTC) : https://hub.link/NWRSaUP

#BitTorrent Turns 20: The File-Sharing Revolution Revisited
https://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-turns-20-the-file-sharing-revolution-revisited-210702/

Happy birthday BitTorrent. We still love you.

#darktable 3.6 source code has been frozen today. Repositories maintainers can now build packages for Linux distributions. Official release in 10 days.

2680 commits since 3.4, 6 months ago, 290 issues closed and 954 pull requests handled. Last but not least, an up-to-date documentation at release time !

But only 13 languages translated…

Open Source project with global volunteer contributors & users seeks likeminded macOS dev contributor.

Inquiries welcome ❤️

More info available here:

https://inkscape.org/news/2021/06/22/seeking-macos-dev-contributor-inkscape-project/

#Inkscape #collaboration #opensource #macOS