Reviews

Elektroid 3.1 welcomes Arturia MicroFreak

Libre replacement for Elektron Transfer advances further into Arturia territory

Elektroid 3.0 and Overwitch 1.1 released

FOSS replacement for Elektron Transfer that also handles some Arturia, Moog, and Novation devices

New in GIMP: paint tools can autoexpand layers now

It's one more step to an infinite canvas in GIMP

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

Hugin 2022

The panorama stitcher got UX improvements

Upscayl vs Upscaler

Real-ESRGAN is getting native Linux apps

GIMP 2.99.14

Goodbye, floating selection. Hello, stroked text!

Introducing master_me, a mastering plugin for live broadcasting

Meet the tool that makes the loudness of your live streams just right.

GIMP 2.99.12: CMYK, canvas interaction, and more

Long overdue changes landing to what will eventually become GIMP 3.0

8+1 audio editors for Linux that are not Audacity

The ecosystem has a few hidden gems worth talking about

LSP Plugins 1.2.2

Now with a Multiband Dynamic Processor

Introducing Watchtower

Brand new web-based tool to visualize the status of film production

Introducing BeeRef

All-new free/libre reference image viewer

Optimize PNG and JPEG images on Linux with Curtail

If you don't particularly enjoy using a terminal program to run optipng et al., I'm happy to introduce you to this little gem.

Scribus 1.5.6 and beyond

New unstable version of Scribus is available with several interesting improvements such as PDF-based printing, PDF 1.6 compatibility with OpenType fonts embedding, and more changes.

GIMP 2.99.2 vs 2.10.x: which one do you pick?

Now that the GIMP team is back to releasing both stable and unstable updates, here is the question that a lot of people will be asking. Should they go for 2.99.2? Or should they stick to the stable 2.10 series?

GIMP 2.10.18 full review

The new version of GIMP is full of usability fixes, new features, overall improvements, and bug fixes.

Introducing OpenCue, an open source render manager

Google Cloud and Sony Pictures Imageworks team up on something new

Introducing Olive, new non-linear video editor

Why this new free/libre video editor is a big deal

The quest for sustainable free/libre non-linear video editors

How can we actually support free/libre projects for filmmakers?

GIMP 2.9.2 released, how about features trivia?

The GIMP team made the first public release in the 2.9.x series. It's completely GEGL-based, has 16/32-bit per channel editing and new tools.

Book Review: Digital Painting with Krita 2.9

Newly published book by Scott Petrovic will get you started with the free/libre painting program in no time

Ardour 4 released

New version of the free/libre DAW brings sleeker UI, new editing tools, native CoreAudio/ASIO support

Krita 2.6 released, what's coming in the next version?

The KDE project announced release of Calligra Suite 2.6, a set of free office, graphics and productivity applications. The crown jewel of the release is Krita, an image editor with advanced painting features.

Quick look at Pinta 1.4, simple free image editor

Pinta image editor was updated last week to bring several major changes and various small improvements to its users

Introducing Knotter, free celtic knots design app

Free tools for vinyl cutting on Linux

Ever wondered if you could get one of those fancy vinyl cutters and not abandon Linux?

UniConvertor 1.1.5 review

sK1 team released a new version of UniConvertor, a free vector graphics converter. Here comes the review.

Creating harmonic color schemes with Gpick

This is an introduction to creating harmonic color schemes with Gpick, an advanced free color picker

What's new in GIMP 2.7.0 development release

GIMP team has just released the first unstable version in this development cycle with lots of exciting new features. Learn more about it.

What's new in Scribus 1.3.5

Scribus team has just released a long anticipated yet unstable 1.3.5 version of this free desktop publishing application. Let's take a closer look at the result of two years of hard work.

Fontmatrix 0.6.0 review

Pierre Marchand has just released a new version of Fontmatrix. There's a whole bunch of new features and improvements that definitely deserve a review.