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Another Krita painting, and thoughts about working color spaces

Here is a fun painting I did in my free time to keep on testing Krita before the next update release. “Lobo vs the Mutant-Squirrel” ( Lobo is a character of DC Comics; Mutant-Squirrel is just a random mutant-squirrel 😛 ) For this one, I’ve worked on a 16bit/channel canvas, using scRGB color space. Then […]

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LGM 2012 : Krita Workshop report

More details about the Krita workshop I made at Libre Graphics Meeting last week: The goal of this workshop was to teach my workflow to use Krita for comics-style drawing. After some explanations about my hardware and shortcuts setup (as some of you may know I use a joypad for all my shortcuts, using Qjoypad […]

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New brush engine mode in Krita: blend like in Mypaint

A few days ago, while I was away on LGM, Silvio Heinrich (a cool coder -and- painter from the Krita team) added the new Dulling mode to his “Color smudge” engine. So it’s now possible, in the “Smudge Rate” properties panel of this brush engine, to choose between “Smearing” or “Dulling” Smudge modes. “Smearing” is […]

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Using Oyranos on Kubuntu 12.04

°°° UPDATED 15/06/2012: -Added missing dependencies in install step -Fixed a typo in the CMAKE line which installed result in a wrong path. -Edited again: cleaner folders °°° Here is a little tutorial to help you install the powerful Oyranos Color-Management-System on Kubuntu 12.04 (at least on a KDE/Plasma desktop, as the Kolor-manager simple interface […]

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LGM 2012: a crazy week in Vienna!

Back from the Libre Graphics Meeting, it’s been a crazy week with tons of cool people. The event was happening in parallel with the Linuxwochen one in the FH Technikum, so the place was really filled with cool geeks, lots of good vibes in the place… :.) Very interesting talks and workshops: °Regarding color management […]

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