GSoC 2023 projects have been announced
by Alexandre ProkoudineWhat's coming for GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, Blender, FreeCAD, MuseScore
Weekly Recaps
A mostly weekly look at what's new in the world of Libre Arts.
Weekly recap — 3 September 2023
Major BlenderBIM update, exciting changes in Inkscape, FreeCAD, and Ardour
Weekly recap — 28 August 2023
Kdenlive and LSP plugins get major updates. Olive's future is increasingly uncertain
Weekly recap — 21 August 2023
Inkscape + CMYK PDF = ❤️, FreeCAD has updated start screen, VCV Rack 2.4.0 is out
Podcast
Conversations with developers and users of free software for creative professionals.
Podcast ep. 003 - Paul Davis on fixing big Linux audio issues
This is a the second part of the interview with Paul Davis. It's time to talk about some big stuff that is relevant to virtually every user of Linux audio applications for music-making.
Previously...
Podcast ep. 002 - Paul Davis on the deep rewrite of Ardour
This is the first part of a long interview with Paul Davis, founder and lead developer of Ardour, free/libre digital audio workstation.
Podcast ep. 001 - Interview with Krita developers
Krita team on funding the development and bringing in new contributors
Tutorials
How to use free/libre software for good honest work
How to use math input in GIMP
How to do simple calculations in the spinbox widgets where you input numeric values
Mastering Inkscape in 2018
What’s best among books, courses, and tutorials on the free/libre vector graphics editor
How to view reference images in GIMP
GIMP has no reference image viewer. Fortunately, there a simple way to work around this.
Showcases
Great works of art made with free/libre software
Halloween art 2021
Spooky and fun!
Revolutionizing garment-making in Italy with Valentina
Here is a tailor shop in Sicily actively using Valentina for pattern design
The art of Evelyne Schulz
Growing with Linux and GIMP to become a pro
Reviews
Hands-on reviews of free/libre software
Audacity 3.3.0 released
Musical time ruler makes the entrance
Introducing Mayo
Meet the open-source 3D CAD files viewer
darktable 4.2
New and updates modules, WebP and JPEG-XL support
Posts
Other posts about the Libre Arts community.
Streamlining Inkscape for the masses
by Alexandre ProkoudineAn interview with the Inkscape team on better development process and UX improvements
Going above and beyond with Inkscape 1.0
by Alexandre ProkoudineInterview with Inkscape developers
You'd have to be crazy to rewrite GIMP in anything — Interview with Ell
by Alexandre ProkoudineInterview with Ell, core team developer of GIMP
Introducing enve, free/libre 2D animation tool
by Alexandre ProkoudineNew 2D animation tool enve is shaping up nicely