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@friction.graphics.bsky.social

Powerful and versatile motion graphics application that allows you to create vector and raster animations for web and video. https://friction.graphics #motiongraphics #motiondesign #animation #svg #vector #raster #opensource

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GIMP - GIMP 3.0.6ย Released Release news for version GIMPย 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

06.10.2025 17:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 43    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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#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

10.10.2025 18:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weekly recap โ€” 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...

23.09.2025 22:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weekly recap โ€” 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...

16.09.2025 20:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weekly recap โ€” 31 August 2025 Wacom brings โ‚ฌ240K/year to Blender Foundation, GIMP gets vector and link layers

Back to recaps after a summer break. Whatโ€™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...

03.09.2025 13:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

18.08.2025 13:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weekly recap โ€” 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...

12.08.2025 18:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 ๐Ÿฅณ

friction.graphics/releases/fri...

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

06.08.2025 22:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weekly recap โ€” 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...

05.08.2025 18:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weekly recap โ€” 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...

30.07.2025 16:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weekly recap โ€” 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...

15.07.2025 08:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weekly recap โ€” 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...

09.07.2025 18:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weekly recap โ€” 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...

01.07.2025 12:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

20.06.2025 11:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Group photo of (most) summit participants in front of a castle

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

Learn all about the #Inkscape Summit ๐Ÿ”๏ธ in Nuremberg ๐Ÿฐ before #LGM ๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธ, our largest Contributor meeting so far:

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

04.06.2025 18:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weekly recap โ€” 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...

27.05.2025 23:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weekly recap โ€” 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...

20.05.2025 22:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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GIMP - GIMP 3.0.4ย Released Release news for version GIMPย 3.0.4

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

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

18.05.2025 21:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Original post on post.lurk.org

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 โ€ข talks โ€ข workshops โ€ข meetings

May 28 โ€“ 31
We are hosted in Karl-Brรถger-Zentrum

https://libregraphicsmeeting.org [โ€ฆ]

15.05.2025 18:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weekly recap โ€” 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...

13.05.2025 14:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

08.05.2025 23:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weekly recap โ€” 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...

06.05.2025 17:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weekly recap โ€” 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...

29.04.2025 11:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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

28.04.2025 18:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 68    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Weekly recap โ€” 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

22.04.2025 12:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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.

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

15.04.2025 11:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There are several ways to contribute, code is just one way ๐Ÿ™‚... Testing, feedback (feature requests, ui/ux), helping others, tutorials, documentation, spreading the word etc.

13.04.2025 12:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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.

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

08.04.2025 11:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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.

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

01.04.2025 18:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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 viewerโ€™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.

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 viewerโ€™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

26.03.2025 16:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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