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Announcing the AlmaLinux Media & Entertainment SIG: The frontline for VFX, Animation, and post The AlmaLinux community is thrilled to announce the formation of our newest Special Interest Group: the Media & Entertainment SIG! This group is dedicated to supporting and enhancing the use of…

🎬 Introducing the AlmaLinux Media & Entertainment SIG!

Making AlmaLinux the go-to platform for VFX, animation, and post-production studios. From app certification to render farm configs—built by the community, for the community.

Join us! almalinux.org/blog/2025-12...

We are happy to announce the launch of the website and the Call for Participation for the next Libre Graphics Meeting in Nuremberg.

📅 Event: April 22 – April 25, 2026 ⏳ CfP Deadline: January 31, 2026

Full CfP: https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2026/call-for-participation/

Special focus – RE […]

Save the date: 2026-04-22 to 2026-04-25 LGM 2026 Nuremberg, Germany

Hello everyone,

we have a fixed venue and date for LGM 2026 in Nuremberg, Germany:

Wednesday, April 22nd to Saturday, April 25th, 2026. The event will be hosted at Zollhof (https://zollhof.de/).

We are now preparing the call […]

GIMP - GIMP 3.2 RC1: First Release Candidate for GIMP 3.2 Release news for version GIMP 3.2 RC1

www.gimp.org/news/2025/11...

First release candidate for GIMP 3.2, after months of hard work. Note: it’s a development snapshot, not a final release. Please report any problems/crashes.

#GIMP3 #GImp_3 #beta #imageEditor #GPL #freeSoftware #libreGraphics #graphicDesign

Welcome to the 23rd edition of the Piksel Festival for Art and Technological Freedom! 💫
From November 20th to 23rd, Bergen transforms into the stage for cutting-edge electronic art, with 3 days of workshops, artist presentations, audiovisual concerts and exhibitions across the city.

Monochrome portrait of Simon (wearing a hat) by Darix

www.gimp.org/news/2025/11...

An interview with a long-time GIMP developer and contributor, Simon Budig.

#GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #interview #developer

YouTube video by Nuxttux Creative Studio Friction Blender Kdenlive Pipeline - Animation Workflow

New video from Nuxttux on motion graphics (workflow) with FOSS.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UeP...

#animation #mograph #motiongraphics #libregraphics

Weekly recap — 12 October 2025 New releases of GIMP and RapidRAW, new features in darktable and Ardour

Week highlights: new releases of GIMP and RapidRAW; a quick first look at the AgX tonemapper in darktable; new features in Ardour

librearts.org/2025/10/week...

YouTube video by Nuxttux Creative Studio Glaxnimate vs Friction for Motion Graphics | Kdenlive Tutorial

Nuxttux Creative Studio latest video on motion graphics with FOSS.

youtu.be/Kvg034LVKwg?...

#animation #mograph #motiongraphics #libregraphics

GIMP - GIMP 3.0.6 Released Release news for version GIMP 3.0.6

www.gimp.org/news/2025/10...

Usability improvements, bug fixes, crash fixes and more.

Thanks to all who contributed, including all those who reported problems and help test for bugs.

New releases of the #BABL and #GEGL libraries are included

#kdenlive 25.08.2 is out continuing the focus on stability and polish. It fixes issues with effects and transitions, improves clip selection, and resolves crashes related to filter jobs and effects on sequences, updated params of frei0r fx.

kdenlive.org/news/release...

#kde #videoediting #floss

Weekly recap — 21 September 2025 Ton Roosendaal is stepping down as executive director of Blender Foundation

Week highlights: @gimpofficial.bsky.social is getting an SVG exporter; Ton Roosendaal is stepping down as executive director of @blender3d.bsky.social Foundation; @kdenlive.bsky.social is planning exciting new features; @freecad.org is launching a bug hunt for v1.1

librearts.org/2025/09/week...

Weekly recap — 14 September 2025 Mew releases of Gradia, RapidRAW, and displaycal; Blender gets new major sponsor

Weekly recap: new releases of Gradia, RapidRAW, and displaycal; @gimpofficial.bsky.social is getting SVG exporting and in-app notifications, @krita.org is getting color management support on Wayland, @blender3d.bsky.social just got another major corporate sponsor

librearts.org/2025/09/week...

Weekly recap — 31 August 2025 Wacom brings €240K/year to Blender Foundation, GIMP gets vector and link layers

Back to recaps after a summer break. What’s new recently: Wacom upgrades its @blender3d.bsky.social support; new releases of @gimpofficial.bsky.social, RapidRAW, @kdenlive.bsky.social, and Shotcut; new features in @inkscape.org and Ardour

See here for details: librearts.org/2025/08/week...

The Kdenlive team is happy to announce the release of version 25.08.0 packed with over 300 commits of bug fixes and lots of polishing to give you a pleasant editing experience in the summer heat.

kdenlive.org/news/release...

#linux #videoediting #kde #video #floss #artWithOpenSource

Weekly recap — 10 August 2025 New releases of RapidRaw, Gradia, Friction, and Handbrake; new features in GIMP

Week highlights: new releases of RapidRaw, Gradia, @friction.graphics, and Handbrake; new features in @gimpofficial.bsky.social

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

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...