Alexandre Prokoudine @prokoudine@mastodon.social

Shorter-than-usual week recap: new stuff in GIMP, Krita, darktable, new releases of @zrythm and Guitarix, and the usual roundup of new tutorials and artworks made with free/libre software

https://librearts.org/2021/01/week-recap-25-jan-2021/

Featured image by Juan Hernandez

Happy to do another artist showcase, this time — with Evelyne Schulz who uses GIMP for digital painting!

https://librearts.org/2021/01/the-art-of-evelyne-schulz/

To hell with 2020! Here is what you should be expecting to happen _this_ year in free/libre software for creative professionals:

https://librearts.org/2021/01/foss-in-2021-preview/

I'm sunsetting Libre Graphics World to replace it with Libre Arts. Here is the why and how:

https://librearts.org/2021/01/introducing-libre-arts/

This is a shorter-than-usual week recap: new releases of Krita and Shotcut, new features in Siril, Blender, Olive, some interesting ongoing development in darktable (will land to dev branch after v3.4 release and after some heavy modification, apparently).

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/week-recap-9-december-2020

Featured artwork by Seefat

Week recap: new major releases of @Blender, Font Manager, DrumGizmo, amSynth, new features in @krita, Olive, new node-based image editor called Cascade

Details: http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/week-recap-1-december-2020

Featured artwork by Rutger van de Steeg

Font Manager 0.8.0 is out with Google Fonts integration, saved font comparison sets, Unicode 13 support etc. Linux-only so far :)

Subtitles available for the video. Might make a post though

https://youtu.be/Xrd3Lmy7ctE

Oh and another multi-week recap is out too:

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/multi-week-recap-25-november-2020

Looks like I never posted here this video about new docks in upcoming @inkscape 1.1 :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoPLqxaj7Kc

New video is out: a quick look at Scribus 1.5.6 and beyond.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lnlBufWMfI

A few people told me I speak too fast, and my accent doesn't help. So let's see if I can find my rock bottom by speaking slowly. Everything is an experiment :)

Edited transcript:

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/scribus-1-5-6-and-beyond

Subtitles coming.

Looks like I published another video on GIMP, with subtitles and edited transcript because of my Russian accent and shpeech impeshimentsh :)

If you are, like, puzzled whether you should switch to unstable v2.99 series, have a go at it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5hG_vJI80k

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/gimp-2-99-2-vs-2-10-which-one-do-you-pick

RIP Bill Morrow, lead developer of free/libre video editor Cinelerra-GG

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/rip-bill-morrow

New week recap is out:

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/week-recap-3-november-2020

Featured artwork by William Nugroho, made with Inkscape

My silly week recap is belatedly out:

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/week-recap-4-august-2020

Lots of good stuff happening all around!

Featured Blender-powered artwork by YotaKa.