Looks like developers are out in the wild and having fun. In just one day:
- SANE 1.0.21, first release in a year, 224 more scanners supported, better HAL/udev support
- PoDoFo 0.8.0, first release in almost 1,5 years, major improvements (yes, I nitpick)
- Mandelbulber 0.43, 3D fractals builder
- LibRaw 0.9.0, relicensed, Foveon ditched, calculates and adjusts max saturation per-channel way better
In the mean time the audio world is busy writing code to support simple yet working built-in session management in JACK.
Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 is getting really close. This year we are doing a Pledgie campaign as well to get support from our community, so that all individual developers willing to participate and make the free graphics software better again could attend.
To give you a better idea why LGM matters I finally finished the article I promised long time ago. Read it here.
If you are willing to support LGM, no matter how little money you can give, please use the Pledgie:
If you are a potential corporate sponsor, it’s best to contact GNOME Foundation, who help us with processing of incoming payments, by writing to lgm(at)gnome.org. Thank you!
If you’ve been reading Graphics Planet for a while, you probably already heard a thing or two from Lukas Tvrdy about this project, but now it’s sort of official. The little unambitious project called re-lab is here to help graphic apps developers with specs on file formats that are for some reasons not publicly available. The background is here. Enjoy.
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Life.
As if it wasn’t enough six years ago, two blasts in Moscow subway, 40 people reported to be dead + some wounded. Will this ever stop? Unlikely.
The following “graphics” organizations are participating at Google Summer of Code this year:
- Blender Foundation
- CGAL
- GIMP
- GNOME (read: F-Spot)
- Hugin/Panotools
- Inkscape
- KDE (read: Krita, Karbon, digiKam)
- OpenCV
- OpenICC
- X.org
- YafaRay
Please visit the list of accepted organizations to find out more.
Okay, now I can introduce new members of Graphics Planet 
Esteban Tovagliari already was introduced a couple of days ago. But if you’ve just joined, he is developer of Ramen, a free/libre compositing tool for Linux and Mac.
Alastair M. Robinson is best known for his work on PhotoPrint, but his recent projects, GPLin and CMYKTool, do deserve attention as well. GPLin aids finetuning your printer for printing photos (with Gutenprint) and CMYKTool allows both color managed and non color managed (sometimes useful) RGB <> CMYK conversion with printer simulation view.
Durian project probably doesn’t need special introduction. Simply put, this is the third open animation movie project by Blender Foundation.
Now, Morevna project does need special introduction: it is an open anime project led by Konstantin Dmitriev (most members of the team are Russians). The main production tool is Synfig, which inevitably is being improved from bug reports, feature requests etc. So one might say, for Synfig this is what Blender Foundation’s open movies are to Blender.
With Google Summer of Code 2010 coming there surely will be new members, stay tuned
I think this talented Inkscape artist nicknamed Omnitarian definitely deserves more credit than he gets
It looks like updating Graphics Planet takes too much time, so I’ll introduce one of the upcoming members now
As many of you know we are somewhat limited in solid open source VFX production tools on Linux. True, there are all sorts of modellers and Blender seems to become jack of all trades these days, but new specialized tools are always welcome. Which is why I’d like to make a bit of PR for a project called Ramen. Simply put, this is the only standalone open source node-based compositing solution for Linux and Mac. If you wanted a Shake-like or Nuke-like free tool for Linux or Mac, look no further.
Continue reading ‘Introducing Ramen’
You’ve been craving for that, you really have:
Yes, not only you can edit text on canvas in GIMP now, you can also use different styles in same text block. It’s as simple as selecting text and clicking a button. And full undo/redo works on text level too. All praise goes to Michael Natterer
There’s a lot of goodness in the brush dynamics department too: Alexia went ahead and started working on UI for response curves. So soon you’ll be able to tune your styluses for GIMP almost like in MyPaint.
And did I say that recently released GEGL and babl are experimentally threaded now, so re speed they are on par with legacy 8bit GIMP, while retaining 32bit float per channel accuracy?
On January 23 Alastair M. Robinson silently released first public version of CMYKTool. That would go quite unnoticed if it wasn’t for someone liking to read all sorts of RSS feeds So the very next day linuxgraphics.ru community was already discussing the new tool, discovering bugs and requesting features. The thread was so hot, that Alastair started reading it via BabelFish online translation tool, and now just a week and a half later v0.1.1 is out with feature enhancements and bug fixes for bugs reported by the community.
So, what is CMYKTool exacly? The application is basically a rewrite of Alastair’s old separate plug-in for GIMP (later continued as separate+ by Yoshinori Yamakawa) into a standalone interactive tool. You can freely convert between RGB<->CMYK using ICC profiles and save to TIFF and JPEG, you can use devicelink profiles, you can compare renders (I think this is where libgdl would come in handy to provide arbitrary docking). And you also can see per-channel % and overall ink coverage values for a point under mouse cursor.
In the future CMYKTool is likely to gain spot color based duotones and more devicelink related functionality like generation of such profiles by means of Argyll.
Thank you, Alastair, and thank you, community