This is going to be a quick recap. Week highlights: new versions of digiKam, MuseScore Studio, and Audacity.
digiKam 8.6.0
This is not my jam, but it’s great to see this digital photography management program regularly updated. New in this release:
- The AI-based face classifier has received an upgrade and now cross-validates results between K Nearest Neighbor (KNN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers.
- The auto-tagging engine has been completely rewritten and now uses new pipelines and improvements from the face management engine.
- The Image Quality Sorter has been renamed to Image Quality Scanner and is now available from the Labels tab on the left sidebar.
- The Red Eye Correction tool has been redesigned with deep learning tech.
See here for the release announcement.
Inkscape
A couple of nice patches in progress recently:
- Tav is working on something interesting: on-canvas spellchecking.
- Ft Omara contributed a patch that adds ratio and rounding locks to the Rectangle tool.
MuseScore Studio 4.5
It’s a major new release with fairly cool changes:
- Much simplified insertion of dynamics markings.
- A new panel for inserting percussion.
- Several features for Finale refugees, including note insertion by duration, easy copy/pasting of bars, and more.
- Some good engraving enhancements, including large time signatures, laissez vibrer ties, text masking through barlines, etc.
See the blog post here in Libre Arts or the release notes. Also, here’s the release video:
Audacity 3.7.3
This one is a purely bugfix release that follows another bugfix release. If you were using 3.7.0/3.7.1, upgrading makes perfect sense.
Ratatouille 0.9.10
Hermann Meyer released a new version of Ratatouille.lv2, a neural model loader and mixer for guitarists. This version comes with a standalone application. If you prefer that over plugins, upgrading sounds like a smart idea. You will need the package that has “app” in the name.
Artworks
Underwater Laboratory by Oleksandra Havrylina, made with Blender and Photoshop:
Some practice with Blender and Photoshop, by 土豆LCZ:
Order of the Dragon by R.A. Steban, made with Krita (painting over a photo):
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