Tag Archives: KDE
Back from the “Future Tools” LGM 2013
I’m just back home from the Libre Graphics Meeting 2013, which was once again awesome! It happened in Madrid this time, at the Medialab-Prado. There were a lot of interesting talks and workshops, mixing coder and artistic topics. All kinds of graphics-related activities were represented, including image manipulation, typography, illustration, animation, design, and more. The [...]
Animation in Krita: one more step!
Today a new cool feature arrived in Krita development version (many thanks to Boudewijn Rempt who did it): the “LayerGroupSwitcher”. Basically it’s just two little shortcuts (not assigned by default), that switch to next or previous group layer, hiding the previous group and showing the current one. With this it’s much faster to work on [...]
First Krita Lessons and other cool things this week
This week for the first time I’ve been teaching Krita lessons, from Monday to Wednesday, at Activ Design. This is a french school training students to graphics work using only free software. This time it was only a short training about drawing basics and how they apply using Krita features. There’s more planned for next [...]
Krita 2.6 released
Hi, This week the Calligra suite released version 2.6, including latest stable Krita. Lots of cool stuff (though more cool features are already in master branch, waiting for 2.7… ). The official announcement is here on Krita.org, including a nice presentation booklet. This release introduce the new icon I’ve made, based on the Krita Sketch [...]
KXStudio, a good audio distribution using KDE
Since a few months my main computer is running a special Ubuntu-based distribution called KXStudio. It’s actually a set of PPAs on top of ubuntu repositories, meant to provide updated and additional audio-creation software. Also it’s using KDE Plasma as official desktop, with a very good default configuration and an up-to-date 4.9.5 version. So if [...]
