Inkscape

Weekly recap — 17 November 2024

Exciting development in Inkscape, zero release blockers for FreeCAD 1.0, and a new Verge3D release

Weekly recap — 22 October 2024

New releases of Inkscape, Friction, and Ardour, update on GIMP and FreeCAD

Weekly-ish recap — 22 October 2023

New releases of OSPRay and Ardour, the FPA is surveying FreeCAD educators

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

Weekly recap — 7 August 2023

FreeCAD 0.21 released, Inkscape to get CMYK PDF exporting in v1.4

Weekly recap — 10 July 2023

New releases of GIMP, Godot and Armory3D, Ardour gets freehand automation drawing

Weekly recap — 21 May 2023

Blender 3.6 beta is out, VGC Illustration gets new tools

GSoC 2023 projects have been announced

What's coming for GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, Blender, FreeCAD, MuseScore

Weekly recap — 23 April 2023

BeeRef resurrected in a fork, Inkscape looking for a full-time GTK4 developer

Weekly recap — 9 April 2023

OpenShot 3.1.0 released, new features in GIMP and Krita

Weekly recap — 2 April 2023

Blender 3.5 released with new hair system and GPU-side compositing

Weekly recap — 26 March 2023

Kdenlive is getting automatic generation of subtitles from audio

Weekly recap — 19 March 2023

DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay, FreeCAD team starts merging toponaming fixes

Weekly recap — 12 March 2023

New releases of VCV Rack and plugdata, GIMP is getting on-canvas equidistant distribution

Weekly recap — 5 March 2023

New releases of GIMP and Godot, new features in Krita and Inkscape

Weekly recap — 12 February 2023

Inkscape gets improved PDF importing with layers and ICC profiles

Weekly recap — 5 February 2023

New features in GIMP, Inkscape, Penpot, and Ardour

2023 in preview

What's coming this year across the entire stack of free software for creatives

Weekly-ish recap — 11 December 2022

Blender, Inkscape, and OpenShot all get updates

Weekly-ish recap — 7 December 2022

RawTherapee is back on track with a new massive release

Weekly-ish recap — 26 October 2022

Massive Ardour update, MuseScore 4 beta released

Weekly-ish recap — 4 May 2022

Basic CMYK features are landing to GIMP, Kdenlive is getting 10-bit support

Weekly-ish recap — 28 February 2022

Inkscape team to hire project coordinator, FreeCAD 0.20 coming soon

Weekly-ish recap — 7 February 2022

Inkscape 1.2 goes alpha, Weston gets essential color management support

Weekly-ish recap — 26 January 2022

Surge XT and ZynAddSubFX softsynths get much anticipated updates

Streamlining Inkscape for the masses

An interview with the Inkscape team on better development process and UX improvements

Looking back at 2021, looking forward at 2022

A journey across the multiverse of free/libre tools for creative professionals

Weekly-ish recap — 6 October 2021

Synths, synths, synths! Oh, and a massive FrreeCAD news update for architects

Weekly recap — 19 September 2021

A surprising CAD + music production domination in the news

Weekly recap — 12 September 2021

FreeCAD Trails workbench for transportation engineering is getting momentum

Weekly-ish recap — 7 September 2021

BlenderBIM project is celebrating 2 years, Krita 5 development is wrapping up

Weekly-ish recap — 17 August 2021

Both Synfig and Glaxnimate animation tools get new releases, Audacity ships the first corporate-backed release

Weekly-ish recap — 9 June 2021

New Inkscape, Penpot, BlenderBIM and Ardour releases, development fund for Krita, Audacity shenanigans

Revolutionizing garment-making in Italy with Valentina

Here is a tailor shop in Sicily actively using Valentina for pattern design

Week recap — 18 August 2020

LibreDWG gets v0.11 release and goes beta

Going above and beyond with Inkscape 1.0

Interview with Inkscape developers

Week recap — 15 May 2019

New releses of AzPainter and RawTherapee are out.

Week recap — 25 February 2019

Inkscape is getting a new visual live path effects selector

Week recap — 21 January 2019

Inkscape team releases new version of the vector graphics editor

Week recap — 2 December 2018

HISE 2.0.0 lands to let anyone create sample-based virtual instruments

Week recap — 25 November 2018

Stalled development of Natron gets prime-time attention

Week recap — 14 October 2018

Microsoft is granting access to 60,000+ patents including type design ones

Swapped coordinates in Inkscape and other stories from frozen hell

Mastering Inkscape in 2018

What’s best among books, courses, and tutorials on the free/libre vector graphics editor

Is SVG 2 really on life support?

SVG 2 might arrive sometime in the future without quite a few useful features that have been already developed and tested. What's up with that?

Inkscape 0.91 released

Over 4 years in the making, thousands of commits, dozens of new features: it's all there, neatly packed in the newly released Inkscape 0.91.

Change of heart. Inkscape starts encouraging paid development

After years of being dead against paid development, the Inkscape Board came up with a policy that encourages personal (crowd)funded projects.

Document Freedom Day and missing interoperability opportunities

On March 27, Free Software Foundation Europe was celebrating information accessibility and raising awareness of open standards by running Document Freedom Day. But how well does free software perform there?

Ethereal concept art by Pablo Lizardo

Today we are talking to Ngan Pham, a young artist residing in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. Ngan extensively uses Krita as a freelance concept artist and illustrator.

Lettering and logo design by Filip Komorowski

Lettering and logo design are some of the areas where Inkscape truly shines thanks to well designed shape and path drawing tools. Today we are looking at the work by Filip Komorowski, an artist from Poland.

Dillerkind’s illustrations with Inkscape

Sven Ebert aka 'Dillerkind' is one of the i-can't-believe-i-missed-that artists using Inkscape.

Sokoban Garden, Android game created with free/libre software

A new indie gamedev company Kivano Software released Sokoban Garden — a game created with just free software, such as Blender, Inkscape, GIMP, FontForge, Audacity and others.

Glorious high-resolution icons by Ollin Boer Bohan

One of the difficulties with artists is that people who do real work with free software rarely mention it. At some point they reveal it though, which is how I got to know Ollin Boer Bohan.

Vectatory showroom is full of cute monsters

Vectatory is another artist who extensively uses Inkscape. He currently works as an illustrator at a video games company which develops games for iOS.

Angled guides and snapping for Inkscape beginners

Inkscape's v0.46 was the first version that got angled guides. Along with advanced snapping introduced in later versions it makes accomplishing certain tasks much easier. Let's see how.

Being Omnitarian, the first personal Inkscape showcase

Vectatory is another artist who extensively uses Inkscape. He currently works as an illustrator at a video games company which develops games for iOS.

Inkscape gets OpenSCAD converter

Tired of jumping through hoops to go from Inkscape to OpenSCAD? Dan Newman created a new 3rd party extension that simply exports vector objects as .scad files.

Exchanging colors between GIMP, Inkscape and Gpick

The review of Gpick mentioned that you can drop colors from Gpick to either Inkscape or GIMP. What it doesn't mention is that you can freely drag and drop colors between those three applications.

How to get crisper text out of Inkscape

Presumably most Inkscape users rely on the default PNG exporting method only. But there's more than one way to do it.

How to get CMYK colors from Inkscape to Scribus for printing

Interview with Inkscape developers

Inkscape explores type design, gets Measure tool

Inkscape got a whole new tool for measuring things

How to create your own templates for Inkscape

Interview with Inkscape developers

Inkscape: embedding or linking images?

This article explains the difference between embedding and linking in Inkscape and advices when to use each of them.

How to paint angel wings with GIMP

This tutorial explains using Smudge tool to paint angle-like wings in GIMP. No filters (like Gaussian blur) are required for postprocessing, albeit you can try adjust the result.

How to draw an eye in anime style with Inkscape

Learn how to draw a classic anime-style eye using Inkscape.

How to create layer effects in Inkscape

With built-in XML editor, a bit of grey hair, and slight headache you will learn to create a kind of layers effects in Inkscape to apply same SVG filter to all a objects of a layer in your drawing.

How to draw a computer first-aid kit with Inkscape

Learn how to use the 3D Box tool in Inkscape to create a base for a complex object in perspective and draw complex shadows.

How to draw a snowman with Inkscape

With this Inkscape tutorial you will learn to draw a 3D looking snowman, but ultimately you will get a grasp of creating shadows and reflections the right way.

Add an acrylic image effect to photos in Inkscape

This is a rather simple tutorial on drawing a stunning Mac-like clock in Inkscape using boolean path operations and gradient fills for nice smooth highlights.

Drawing Mac look-alike clock in Inkscape

This is a rather simple tutorial on drawing a stunning Mac-like clock in Inkscape using boolean path operations and gradient fills for nice smooth highlights.

Dancing Tango on the Desktop

Let’s talk to two of most active contributors to the project — Jakub Steiner and Andreas Nilsson.

Interview with Inkscape developers on 0.46 and beyond

Shortly after the release of Inkscape 0.46 we interviewed several Google Summer of Code 2007 students and several developers and asked about plans for future and new technologies.