Some of you might have wondered what the real outcomes from LGM are (especially those who donated this year). For me the best result of LGM2007 was LensFun project by Andrey Zabolotny (used in UFRaw/CVS, digiKam and, secretly, Rawstudio). So far the best one for LGM2008 seems to be new libkdcraw that makes use of LibRaw. And while LibRaw vs. libopenraw might be a controversial topic, one cannot deny all the good things that are happening to digikam, Krita and other KDE4 apps now 
Monthly Archive for September, 2008
One year ago I had a lot of fun watching Adobe fanboys making snob faces when being told that Seam Carving is already available for GIMP. “Oh well,” — they said — “But we will wait till it’s available for Photoshop”.
Took’em just a year. It seems, Photoshop CS4 will finally feature it.
Last Liquid Rescale’s release was back in January, but guess what, its development hasn’t ceased. Carlo is planning a new release later this year that will feature forward energy option from this year’s paper of and, which is even more interesting, basic animation support via GIMP GAP (animation is also a new SIGGRAPH’08 paper’s feature). It’s already in git repo for quite a while.
What I foresee is how many times we now will be told that Adobe was first and we were catching up 