Wednesday, October 14, 2009 9:22:35 AM
vector, svg, kartoon, toon
...
Synfig 0.62, a vector-based 2D animation software package, is released.
This version brings new features, improvements and bugfixes:
* SVG import module supporting supports SVG 1.0
* Keyframe widget: This allows drag and drop of individual keyframes and altering keyframe length
* New toggle buttons in the canvas window
* Onion skin past and future are selectable individually up to four in total
* New Curve Warp Layer
* Updated options for Polygon, Circle and Star Tools
* New Value Nodes: Greyed, Power, And, Not, Compare
* Reverse manipulation for Scale Value Nodes
* Input Device configuration can be saved/loaded now
* New icons and updated new translation
* lots of bugs fixed
Besides that a new website is now online and the code of Synfig is now hosted at
Sourceforge.
Monday, September 28, 2009 5:41:32 PM
rendering, features, game, open
...
Dennis Ippel updates his script which export scenes of
Blender as
Flash ActionScript 3.0 objects for various Flash 3D engines like
Papervision3D. Now it supports
Away3D Lite too. For details visit the
official exporter webpage.
Sunday, September 27, 2009 6:02:24 PM
ps, pdf, postscript, ghostscript
...
At the beginning of this year i wrote
a post about Moonshiner, a PDF utility for Linux simliar too Adobe Distiller. In May this year the final version was released and now
a Deb package for Ubuntu is available at GetDeb.net.
Sunday, September 27, 2009 5:55:10 PM
image editor, imaging, linux, GIMP
Over GetDeb.net i explored various interesting image utilies (most of them i'd like to see as a
GIMP plugin):
Seam Carving GUI...a utility for content aware image resizing very simliar to the Liquid Rescale plugin for GIMP (inluded in the package
GIMP-plugin-registry). Seam Carving GUI is available for MacOS X and Windows too.
Tintii...is a coloring utility - available for Photoshop too but not for GIMP
Smilla Enlarger...raster image enlarger that uses smart curves algorithms to avoid pixelization and blurring artifacts. Smilla Enlarger is available for MacOS X and Windows too.
Monday, September 21, 2009 3:58:04 PM
color profiles, swatches, color palettes
Ever dreamed about using Adobe Kuler color palettes with GIMP or use Scribus color palettes in Inkscape?
SwatchBooker allows you to view, convert and edit a huge bunch of color palette files formats. SwatchBooker 0.4 is now color managed too. Too bad there is no Debian/ Ubuntu package these days.
Saturday, September 19, 2009 11:39:50 AM
otf, editor, typo, ttf
...
The FontForge release schedule is a little bit slower these days - but they still are active. Since the last June release they fixed a lot of bugs and made a lot of smaller improvements (too much to write it down here).
Read the
change log for details. More up-to-date Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be
grabed here.
Saturday, September 19, 2009 11:30:14 AM
PSD, gui, xcf, 2.7
...
There is a lot of
discussion this time about a real single-window GIMP at the development list.
Peter Sikking which is one of the heads behind GUI improvements of GIMP created
a nice proposal which includes anything i dreamed of! Real good work Peter!
Monday, September 14, 2009 7:44:45 PM
typoscript, php, cms, web development
...
There is so much tech talk about the long run of the upcoming
Typo3 5.0. Now the first time screenies of the new interface of the content management system are available. They are a radical break and they look promising. Check out the
article at the T3N.
Friday, September 4, 2009 11:37:17 AM
3d, ubuntu, linux, event
...
Just a month after the first
Blender 2.49 update a secound update is available. Blender 2.49b brings quite a lot of fixes to the open source 3d suite. All improvements listed at the
release log page.
Deb packages for Ubuntu are available at
GetDeb.net.
Thursday, September 3, 2009 4:29:44 PM
raw, image editor, DCRaw, photo
...
A bugfix release of
RawTherapee is available. Rwatherapee 2.4.1 ships with:
* Updated dcraw 8.97/1.428
* Updated translations
* Many bugs fixed
RawTherapee is not open source but it is your assessment what you like to donate to the author.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 11:12:50 AM
firefox, performance, tuning, ubuntu
...
After knowing that all my
Firefox extensions i installed are runing now on
Firefox 3.5 too and reading the post on
Tombuntu about Ubuntuzilla i'm much happier with the Firefox browser. Today i found another really nice goody at the
t3n tips: A
nearly complete guide tuning Firefox 3.5! Sorry it is completly written in german.
Friday, August 28, 2009 4:05:06 PM
realtime, X3D, VRML, Web3D
...
For Bitmanagement
we developed the new version 1.22 of the
BS Exporter for Blender.
Bugfixes:
- Brackets in normalIndex VRML output
- NormalIndex values in VRML output
- Particles type in X3D
- DEF/USE for Particles
- SpecularColor calculation
- Minor fixes
- Error handling if no full Python installation is found
- automated version handling in output modules
Enhanced support for Particles including:
- fadeAlpha and fadeColor (used from particle mesh in Blender)
- gravity and emitVelocity (using AccX, AccY and AccZ properties of Blender's particle engine)
- random size of particles
...and of course support for
Blender 2.49.
Thursday, August 20, 2009 1:47:05 PM
rendering, features, game, engine
...
Dennis Ippel has created a script which export scenes of
Blender as
Flash ActionScript 3.0 objects for various Flash 3D engines like
Papervision3D. That is a real cool addon to bring 3D into the web using Flash.
For details visit the
official exporter webpage.
Monday, August 17, 2009 7:40:08 PM
submission, webcuts, contest, berlin
...
You or somebody you know make a amazing 3D animation, Flash movie, motion graphics or short? Then tell him to submit his movie at Webcuts.09 in the next 14 days!
You can win 500 Euro, a flight/ hotel to/ in Berlin to be at Webcuts.09 and professional software packages for graphics, video, rendering and music.
The categories are:
* Web Documentary / Video Report
* Machinima
* Infotainment
* Collabrative Projects
* Webcuts Classic
http://www.webcuts.org/2009/index-en.html
Monday, August 17, 2009 7:32:39 PM
image editor, xcf, gnu image manipulation programm, configuration
...
The first development snapshot of
Gimp 2.8 is available: Gimp 2.7.0. There are a lot of nice, new upcoming features:
* a reworked, much more flexible text tool
* new saving/ export option
* export plugin for X11 mouse cursors and JPEG2000 file format
* rotation of brushes and additional enhancements to the brush dynamics engine
* tagging for resources
...and much more.
Check out the
release notes too.
But there are much more interesting things we can await in Gimp 2.8:
* Finish merging of the GSoC 2006 vector layer stuff
* Merge the GSoC 2009 projects for brush dynamics and improved SIOX.
* Add a better set of default resoures
* Provide default tags for the default resources
Friday, August 14, 2009 7:44:39 PM
PSD, image editor, xcf, imageing
...
I mentioned the upcoming Gimp 2.6.7 in
my post about Gegl 0.1.0. Now it is available with a lot of bug fixes and updated translations too. All details about this update can be found at the
release log. Deb packages for Ubuntu are available at
GetDeb.net
Saturday, August 8, 2009 3:48:10 PM
gnome, camera, imageing, management
...
F-Spot is my favorite photo management software at all. Now it is available as
version 0.6:
* no longer depends on libeog
* fighting against deprecation, on the path to gnome3
* new viewer widget
* new widget showing folders organisation
* new Preference dialog
* db and config moved to .config (or whatever is pointed by xdg config)
* tons of bugs fixed (really)
* updated translations
Check out
Ruben Vermeersch blog post about this release too! To bad there is no Ubuntu Jaunty built at the moment (please can some build it
)
UPDATE 090810Now a
Ubuntu Deb package of F-Spot 0.6.0 is available (thanx to Carnophage for the hint).
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