Plans for Libre Graphics Meeting 2014

Posted on January 28th, 2014

If you don’t know about it already, the Libre Graphics Meeting is the most important yearly event for everyone involved in Free and Open Source software related to Graphics, developers and users altogether. This year it will take place from 2-5 April 2014 at University Leipzig.

The Libre Graphics Meeting has always tried to reimburse travel costs of participants actively contributing to the meeting. You can help funding this event with a donation to the Pledgie campaign here.

LGM2014

And so now I’m very happy to can tell you that my workshop proposal for the Libre Graphics Meeting 2014 has been accepted.
It will be a 2 hours workshop about “Creative resources creation and management in Krita”.
I’ll show participants how to create all kinds of creative resources in Krita to customize their tools.
This will cover creation and management of:
-Workspace settings
-Document templates
-Brush presets
-Brush masks
-Patterns
-Gradients
-Color palettes
-Vector shapes


It is currently scheduled for Saturday at 10:00.
The program has been published here, and this workshop will actually happen on Thursday April 3rd, from 12h10 to 14h10.

Cya there!

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Update for the Krita workshop at Capitole du Libre

Posted on November 15th, 2013

I already announced some time ago the Krita workshop planned during the Capitole du Libre and Akademy-Fr 2013, but here’s a cool update:
David Revoy (aka Deevad) will join me to teach a complete anime-style workflow.
As already planned, I’ll do the part about drawing toon line art and flat coloring, and he will add a part about toony painted background.
Check his blogpost, or just watch this cool result example:

2013-11-15_krita-and-konqui

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A little QML application

Posted on November 13th, 2013

I’ve often been missing an easy way to browse through audio sample files. A few composition software have one embeded, but not all. And sometimes I just want to check a sample pack quickly, without opening a big complete DAW application.
As I was looking for an exercise to practice more QML and remembered this, I started writing this little application: Sample Explorer QML

sampleexplorerqml screenshot

It is a very simple kind a music player, but with interactions designed specially for one precise use case: to browse through a collection of audio sample files.
You may wonder how it is different from a classic music player, but try to open a collection of drum samples (or other very short samples of this kind) in a playlist and see how it’s not convenient for this purpose..
So unlike a regular music player, it doesn’t play all files in the list, only the selected one.
Also it auto-plays when you select a new file.
Now I can easily browse through big sample folders to quickly find what I need.
And as I thought it might be useful for someone else too, I shared it on gitorious:
https://gitorious.org/sampleexplorerqml

I added the QML word in the name as for now it’s a pure QML application, using only core QML types. It was fun to see how far I could go with it, as it already provided all the components I needed for this application.

Maybe later I’ll add some more fancy features by adding some C++ in the mix (like a spectrogram view or other kinds of analyzers..), but for now it already does its main job.

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Freestyle Fiction 01-B released, and next Krita conference

Posted on October 23rd, 2013

Hey,

Here is the second part of Freestyle Fiction first episode, both in original French and English translation.

Freestyle Fiction – Episode 01 – part B FRENCH
Freestyle Fiction – Episode 01 – part B ENGLISH
Creative-Commons BY-SA license.

preview picture

Again, these pages were entirely made from scratch using Krita, on Linux (Manjaro 64bit, custom KDE Plasma Desktop installation).

On a related topic, next month I’ll be in Toulouse for the “Capitole du Libre” and “Akademy-Fr” events, during the 23/24 November week-end. The “Capitole du Libre” is a big yearly event in Toulouse, about Free Software and Free Culture, both for general public and for specialists. And once again the french KDE community is organizing the Akademy-Fr event at the same place.
On Saturday, I’ll make a short conference about Krita at the Capitole du Libre. Then on the next day at Akademy-Fr I’ll make a workshop about Krita drawing basics, using the new Konqi design as topic.
(check the links above for the schedule)

Akademy-Fr French-Konqui

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Gmic Colorize-Comics working in Krita

Posted on October 8th, 2013

Thanks to the sponsored work by Lukáš Tvrdý, we now have G’mic working directly inside Krita in current git master version !!
There are still a few bugs and missing features, but a lot of filters can work, including “Colorize Comics”.
Here’s a little example with a frame from “Freestyle Fiction” part2 (to be released in a few days 😉 ), with detailed steps and settings that I’ve used.

-First, make a file with your artline layer on top, a layer with color spots below, and another empty layer that’ll recieve the extrapolated colors.
(note that for now, if you want to use a filter that’s supposed to create new layers for the result, you have to create manually those extra empty layers in place before to run gmic action)
-In the Layer menu, select “Apply G’mic action”.
-In G’mic’s window, on the left side, select Input: All and Output: In place.
-select “Black & white” : Colorize [comics] filter
-In Layers ordering part, select “lineart + color spots + extrapolated colors” for both input and output layers.
-I did set smoothness to 0.02 (default is 0.05, lower values makes thin details more accurate, bigger values enhance “open lines” tolerance).

See the result:
gmic colorize comics Krita spots step
gmic colorize Krita result

(note: screenshots size ~25% of original resolution.. )

So if you can’t wait to test G’mic in Krita, go get the development version and have some fun (see this page for detailed build instructions, or use the Krita Lime ppa for ubuntu based ditributions), or wait for next 2.8 release later. And don’t forget to report any issue you may find in the bugtracker, and to share your results!

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