Friction

Friction 1.0.0-rc.2 Introducing the second release candidate for Friction 1.0.0.

Friction 1.0.0 RC 2 is now available 🥳

friction.graphics/releases/fri...

#motiongraphics #motiondesign #mograph #animation #svg #vector #libregraphics #artWithOpenSource

Weekly recap — 3 August 2025 New major releases of PixiEditor and Flameshot; new features in GIMP, FreeCAD, and Ardour

Weekly recap: new major releases of PixiEditor and Flameshot, new features coming to @gimpofficial.bsky.social, @freecad.org, @openscad.bsky.social, and Ardour

librearts.org/2025/08/week...

Weekly recap — 27 July 2025 New releases of Shotcut and Qtractor, Blender team starts working on an iPad port

Belated weekly update: new releases of Shotcut and Qtractor, the Blender team starts working on an iPad port

librearts.org/2025/07/week...

Weekly recap — 13 July 2025 New releases of Krita, Bonsai, OBS Studio, and Kdenlive; new features in GIMP and Ardour

Week highlights: new releases of @krita.org, Bonsai, OBS Studio, and @kdenlive.bsky.social; @gimpofficial.bsky.social is getting support for Sketchbook's TIFF extensions, FontForge is being ported to HarfBuzz, and Ardour is getting further automation improvements

librearts.org/2025/07/week...

Weekly recap — 6 July 2025 New digiKam release, new features coming to GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour

Week highlights: new digiKam release, new features coming to GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour

librearts.org/2025/07/week...

Weekly recap — 29 June 2025 New releases of GIMP, darktable, and Cardinal; new features in FreeCAD and Ardour

(Double-) week highlights: new releases of @gimpofficial.bsky.social, darktable, Cardinal; new features in @freecad.org and Ardour

librearts.org/2025/06/week...

We have the power to change that! Support Free Software projects like:

@blender3d.bsky.social @kdenlive.bsky.social @krita.org #GIMP @inkscape.org #Darktable #Ardour @godotengine.org #Scribus #Natron @friction.graphics @kde.org #gnome #endof10 #linux

Group photo of (most) summit participants in front of a castle

Learn all about the #Inkscape Summit 🏔️ in Nuremberg 🏰 before #LGM 🖌️, our largest Contributor meeting so far:

inkscape.org/news/2025/06...

Weekly recap — 25 May 2025 New releases of Sigil, PipeWire, Qtractor, and Millisecond; new features in GIMP.

Week highlights: new releases of Sigil (EPUB editor), @pipewire.org, Qtractor, and Millisecond; new features in @gimpofficial.bsky.social (text outline direction choice, options for theme-dependent brush previews)

See here for details: librearts.org/2025/05/week...

Weekly recap — 18 May 2025 New releases of GIMP, Inkscape and FreeCAD; Plasma is getting an HDR calibration wizard

Week highlights: new releases of @gimpofficial.bsky.social, @inkscape, and @freecad.bsky.social; 3rd-party GIMP2 plugins are getting ported to GIMP3; @kde.org Plasma is getting an HDR calibration wizard

See here for details: librearts.org/2025/05/week...

GIMP - GIMP 3.0.4 Released Release news for version GIMP 3.0.4

www.gimp.org/news/2025/05...

Bugfix and minor improvements -to the GNU Image Manipulation Program #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #GIMP

Two weeks until Libre Graphics Meeting 2025 in Nuremberg, Germany.

The Libre Graphics Meeting is an annual meeting on Free/Libre and Open Source software for graphics.

community • talks • workshops • meetings

May 28 – 31
We are hosted in Karl-Bröger-Zentrum

https://libregraphicsmeeting.org […]

Weekly recap — 11 May 2025 New version of Shotcut; CMYK PDF in Inkscape; GSoC2025 announces students/projects

Week highlights: new version of Shotcut, CMYK PDF exporting has landed in Inkscape, Google Summer of Code 2025 has announced students/projects

librearts.org/2025/05/week...

Google Summer of Code 2025 projects announced Here is what students around the world will be contributing to GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, FreeCAD, and other projects

Wondering what interesting projects @gimpofficial.bsky.social, Inkscape, @blender3d.bsky.social, @freecad.bsky.social, and others got this year for Google Summer of Code? I went ahead and made a complete list so you don't have to :)

librearts.org/2025/05/gsoc...

Weekly recap — 4 May 2025 New releases of Kdenlive, Mixxx, and Giada; new features in GIMP and FreeCAD.

Week recap: new releases of Kdenlive, Mixxx, and Giada; new features in @gimpofficial.bsky.social and @freecad.bsky.social

See here for more: librearts.org/2025/05/week...

Weekly recap — 27 April 2025 New releases of Helio sequencer and ZLEqualizer, new features in GIMP and FreeCAD

Week highlights: new releases of Helio sequencer and ZLEqualizer, new features coming to @gimpofficial.bsky.social and @freecad.bsky.social, Darkglass Electronics releases a Linux-powered multi-effects processor for the bass

See here for details: librearts.org/2025/04/week...

Kdenlive 25.04 is out with background removal (SAM2), OpenTimelineIO import/export, performance enhancements, optimized audio waveforms and lots workflow improvements and bug fixes.

kdenlive.org/news/release...

#kdenlive #floss #videoediting #artWithOpenSource #OTIO

Weekly recap — 20 April 2025 New features coming to GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour; new releases of Scribus and Bonsai

Week highlights: great new features coming to @gimpofficial.bsky.social, Inkscape, and Ardour in the works; new releases of @scribus.bsky.social and Bonsai BIM

Check out the full post: librearts.org/2025/04/week...

Featured #b3d artwork by Rene Gorecki

This artwork by Yota Tasaki depicts a lush, futuristic utopia where towering trees and floating islands intertwine with sleek, advanced architecture. Waterfalls cascade into misty valleys, and a radiant city rises at the center, blending technology and nature in perfect harmony. The scene feels dreamy and otherworldly, like a vision of a sustainable, high-tech paradise.

Week highlights: new releases of Pinta and Elektroid, @freecad.bsky.social Project Association announces new grants

See here for details: librearts.org/2025/04/week...

Featured #b3d art by Yota Tasaki

There are several ways to contribute, code is just one way 🙂... Testing, feedback (feature requests, ui/ux), helping others, tutorials, documentation, spreading the word etc.

This atmospheric artwork depicts a mysterious, abandoned city reclaimed by nature. A solitary figure stands in a small boat on an emerald-green pool of water, surrounded by moss-covered ruins and lush vegetation. Dominating the scene is a colossal stone statue or sculpture partially covered in vegetation, its humanoid form with a distinctive round head rising eerily from the overgrowth. The composition is shrouded in misty light that filters through the scene, creating a moody, dreamlike quality with dramatic contrast between shadows and illuminated areas. The image evokes themes of lost civilization, the inevitable reclamation of human structures by nature, and the smallness of humanity against monumental remains of the past. The aesthetic combines elements of fantasy art with post-apocalyptic imagery, suggesting an ancient or forgotten world where nature and massive architectural remnants create a hauntingly beautiful landscape.

Week highlights: @gimpofficial.bsky.social team started planning v3.2 development, new releases of Inkscape, jc303, Qtractor, and KnobKraft-orm

See here for details: librearts.org/2025/04/week...

Featured #b3d artwork by Shiro 2049

This artwork depicts a majestic, towering mountain with sharp peaks, surrounded by mist and dramatic cloud formations. At the mountain's base, a castle or fortress is nestled within the landscape, illuminated by warm sunlight. A river flows through the foreground, winding through lush greenery and rocky outcrops. The painting has a fantasy or dreamlike quality, reminiscent of classic fantasy landscapes. The lighting and atmosphere suggest a dramatic, almost mystical setting, with a strong contrast between the bright, sunlit areas and the darker, shadowed regions. The brushstrokes and soft textures give the piece a painterly, semi-realistic style with an emphasis on mood and grandeur.

Week highlights: new releases of @gimpofficial.bsky.social, PhotoGIMP, Shotcut, Flowblade, and Calf LV2 plugins

See here for more: librearts.org/2025/03/week...

Featured #krita artwork by Philipp Urlich

This digital painting presents a mystical forest scene with a glowing golden light piercing through the dense canopy. The artwork contrasts dark, shadowy trees in the foreground with a warm, ethereal radiance in the background. A majestic stag, standing atop a fallen log, is bathed in the light, giving it a divine or mythical presence. The composition draws the viewer’s eye toward the stag, which serves as the focal point, surrounded by lush vegetation and a gently flowing stream. The interplay of darkness and light enhances the sense of mystery and depth. The color palette primarily consists of deep greens, blacks, and warm golden hues, creating an enchanting and almost dreamlike atmosphere.

Week highlights: new releases of @gimpofficial.bsky.social, @blender3d.bsky.social, PDF4QT, libwacom, and LosslessCut

See here for details: librearts.org/2025/03/week...

Featured #krita artwork by Sachin Chauhan

4.4 — blender.org Home of the Blender project - Free and Open 3D Creation Software

Blender Foundation and the online developers community proudly present Blender 4.4! 🚀

A massive milestone in stability, with over 700 issues fixed and packed with features. Ready for production.

✨ What's new: www.blender.org/download/rel...
🧡 Donate: fund.blender.org #b3d

This digital painting or 3D-rendered artwork showcases a dark, futuristic, and possibly sci-fi horror scene set in an industrial or research facility. The focal point is a massive, organic, and grotesque entity attached to an overhead mechanical structure. The creature appears to be growing or being extracted, with its fleshy, glowing orange mass stretching upwards toward a circular, illuminated opening. The environment is filled with metallic platforms, pipes, and machinery, indicating a high-tech setting. The lighting is dramatic, with strong beams of light cutting through the dim atmosphere, emphasizing the eerie nature of the creature and its surroundings. Some of the pipes and structures appear to be contaminated with the same organic material, suggesting the creature might be spreading or overtaking the facility. The overall mood of the piece is ominous, evoking themes of scientific experimentation gone wrong, alien infestations, or bio-engineered horrors. The blend of detailed textures, lighting, and composition creates a compelling visual narrative of mystery and terror.

Week highlights: new versions of digiKam, @musescorestudio.bsky.social, and Audacity

See here for details:
librearts.org/2025/03/week...

Featured #b3d art by Oleksandra Havrylina

GIMP - GIMP 3.0 Released Release notes for GIMP 3.0

Version 3.0 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is released!

www.gimp.org/news/2025/03...

Congratulations and thank you to all who helped in any way to make this real!

Friction 1.0.0-rc.1 Introducing the first release candidate for Friction 1.0.0.

Friction 1.0.0 RC 1 is now available 🥳

friction.graphics/releases/fri...

#motiongraphics #motiondesign #mograph #animation #vector #svg #artWithOpenSource

This image depicts a dark and fiery cavernous environment, possibly a dungeon or a fortress built into a volcanic landscape. The scene is illuminated by molten lava below, casting an ominous glow on the jagged rock formations, crumbling bridges, and ancient, fortress-like structures embedded into the cavern walls. A series of precarious bridges span the chasm, leading to an entrance flanked by glowing torches, hinting at a deeper, more sinister domain. In the foreground, shadowed figures with weapons, possibly warriors or raiders, observe the scene from a higher vantage point, giving a sense of tension and impending action. The composition and lighting create an intense, foreboding atmosphere, reminiscent of a fantasy setting with an emphasis on danger and adventure.

Week highlights: CMYK image mode is WIP in @gimpofficial.bsky.social, new release of LSP plugins, great changes in Inkscape, @friction.graphics, and @freecad.bsky.social.

More information: librearts.org/2025/03/week...

Featured #b3d artwork by Lionel Schramm

Documentation Friction is a powerful and versatile motion graphics application that allows you to create vector and raster animations for web and video.

The initial documentation for v1.0 is almost done... friction.graphics/documentation/

v1.0 release candidate will be out by the end of this week.

This artwork depicts a fantasy landscape featuring a towering ancient fortress atop a lush green hill, surrounded by smaller structures with teal-colored roofs and windmills. The scene is framed by remnants of crumbling stone walls, overgrown with vegetation, hinting at a forgotten civilization. In the foreground, a cloaked traveler adorned with feathers and carrying a staff walks along a worn stone path, accompanied by a small turtle-like creature. The environment is rich with vibrant greenery, rolling fields, and scattered ruins, with mist-covered mountains in the distance. The painterly style, combined with a dynamic composition and soft lighting, evokes a sense of adventure and mystery.

Week recap: new releases of @tahoma2d.bsky.social, JupyterCAD, @kicad.org; first builds of Inkscape with CMYK-capable exporting are available; @freecad.bsky.social Project Association announces 2025 grant program.

More info: librearts.org/2025/02/week...

Featured #b3d artwork by Myan