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@friction.graphics
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Powerful and versatile motion graphics application that allows you to create vector and raster animations for web and video.

https://friction.graphics
#motiongraphics #motiondesign #animation #svg #vector #raster #opensource
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gimpofficial.bsky.social
www.gimp.org/news/2025/11...

An interview with a long-time GIMP developer and contributor, Simon Budig.

#GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #interview #developer
Monochrome portrait of Simon (wearing a hat) by Darix
November 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
friction.graphics
New video from Nuxttux on motion graphics (workflow) with FOSS.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UeP...

#animation #mograph #motiongraphics #libregraphics
Friction Blender Kdenlive Pipeline - Animation Workflow
YouTube video by Nuxttux Creative Studio
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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librearts.bsky.social
Week highlights: new releases of GIMP and RapidRAW; a quick first look at the AgX tonemapper in darktable; new features in Ardour

librearts.org/2025/10/week...
Weekly recap — 12 October 2025
New releases of GIMP and RapidRAW, new features in darktable and Ardour
librearts.org
October 15, 2025 at 11:39 PM
friction.graphics
Nuxttux Creative Studio latest video on motion graphics with FOSS.

youtu.be/Kvg034LVKwg?...

#animation #mograph #motiongraphics #libregraphics
Glaxnimate vs Friction for Motion Graphics | Kdenlive Tutorial
YouTube video by Nuxttux Creative Studio
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October 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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gimpofficial.bsky.social
www.gimp.org/news/2025/10...

Usability improvements, bug fixes, crash fixes and more.

Thanks to all who contributed, including all those who reported problems and help test for bugs.

New releases of the #BABL and #GEGL libraries are included
GIMP - GIMP 3.0.6 Released
Release news for version GIMP 3.0.6
www.gimp.org
October 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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frdbr.bsky.social
#kdenlive 25.08.2 is out continuing the focus on stability and polish. It fixes issues with effects and transitions, improves clip selection, and resolves crashes related to filter jobs and effects on sequences, updated params of frei0r fx.

kdenlive.org/news/release...

#kde #videoediting #floss
October 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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librearts.bsky.social
Week highlights: @gimpofficial.bsky.social is getting an SVG exporter; Ton Roosendaal is stepping down as executive director of @blender3d.bsky.social Foundation; @kdenlive.bsky.social is planning exciting new features; @freecad.org is launching a bug hunt for v1.1

librearts.org/2025/09/week...
Weekly recap — 21 September 2025
Ton Roosendaal is stepping down as executive director of Blender Foundation
librearts.org
September 23, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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librearts.bsky.social
Weekly recap: new releases of Gradia, RapidRAW, and displaycal; @gimpofficial.bsky.social is getting SVG exporting and in-app notifications, @krita.org is getting color management support on Wayland, @blender3d.bsky.social just got another major corporate sponsor

librearts.org/2025/09/week...
Weekly recap — 14 September 2025
Mew releases of Gradia, RapidRAW, and displaycal; Blender gets new major sponsor
librearts.org
September 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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librearts.bsky.social
Back to recaps after a summer break. What’s new recently: Wacom upgrades its @blender3d.bsky.social support; new releases of @gimpofficial.bsky.social, RapidRAW, @kdenlive.bsky.social, and Shotcut; new features in @inkscape.org and Ardour

See here for details: librearts.org/2025/08/week...
Weekly recap — 31 August 2025
Wacom brings €240K/year to Blender Foundation, GIMP gets vector and link layers
librearts.org
September 3, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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kdenlive.bsky.social
The Kdenlive team is happy to announce the release of version 25.08.0 packed with over 300 commits of bug fixes and lots of polishing to give you a pleasant editing experience in the summer heat.

kdenlive.org/news/release...

#linux #videoediting #kde #video #floss #artWithOpenSource
August 18, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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librearts.bsky.social
Week highlights: new releases of RapidRaw, Gradia, @friction.graphics, and Handbrake; new features in @gimpofficial.bsky.social

librearts.org/2025/08/week...
Weekly recap — 10 August 2025
New releases of RapidRaw, Gradia, Friction, and Handbrake; new features in GIMP
librearts.org
August 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
friction.graphics
Friction 1.0.0 RC 2 is now available 🥳

friction.graphics/releases/fri...

#motiongraphics #motiondesign #mograph #animation #svg #vector #libregraphics #artWithOpenSource
Friction 1.0.0-rc.2
Introducing the second release candidate for Friction 1.0.0.
friction.graphics
August 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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librearts.bsky.social
Weekly recap: new major releases of PixiEditor and Flameshot, new features coming to @gimpofficial.bsky.social, @freecad.org, @openscad.bsky.social, and Ardour

librearts.org/2025/08/week...
Weekly recap — 3 August 2025
New major releases of PixiEditor and Flameshot; new features in GIMP, FreeCAD, and Ardour
librearts.org
August 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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librearts.bsky.social
Belated weekly update: new releases of Shotcut and Qtractor, the Blender team starts working on an iPad port

librearts.org/2025/07/week...
Weekly recap — 27 July 2025
New releases of Shotcut and Qtractor, Blender team starts working on an iPad port
librearts.org
July 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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librearts.bsky.social
Week highlights: new releases of @krita.org, Bonsai, OBS Studio, and @kdenlive.bsky.social; @gimpofficial.bsky.social is getting support for Sketchbook's TIFF extensions, FontForge is being ported to HarfBuzz, and Ardour is getting further automation improvements

librearts.org/2025/07/week...
Weekly recap — 13 July 2025
New releases of Krita, Bonsai, OBS Studio, and Kdenlive; new features in GIMP and Ardour
librearts.org
July 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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librearts.bsky.social
Week highlights: new digiKam release, new features coming to GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour

librearts.org/2025/07/week...
Weekly recap — 6 July 2025
New digiKam release, new features coming to GIMP, Inkscape, and Ardour
librearts.org
July 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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librearts.bsky.social
(Double-) week highlights: new releases of @gimpofficial.bsky.social, darktable, Cardinal; new features in @freecad.org and Ardour

librearts.org/2025/06/week...
Weekly recap — 29 June 2025
New releases of GIMP, darktable, and Cardinal; new features in FreeCAD and Ardour
librearts.org
July 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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frdbr.bsky.social
We have the power to change that! Support Free Software projects like:

@blender3d.bsky.social @kdenlive.bsky.social @krita.org #GIMP @inkscape.org #Darktable #Ardour @godotengine.org #Scribus #Natron @friction.graphics @kde.org #gnome #endof10 #linux
June 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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inkscape.org
Learn all about the #Inkscape Summit 🏔️ in Nuremberg 🏰 before #LGM 🖌️, our largest Contributor meeting so far:

inkscape.org/news/2025/06...
Group photo of (most) summit participants in front of a castle
June 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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librearts.bsky.social
Week highlights: new releases of Sigil (EPUB editor), @pipewire.org, Qtractor, and Millisecond; new features in @gimpofficial.bsky.social (text outline direction choice, options for theme-dependent brush previews)

See here for details: librearts.org/2025/05/week...
Weekly recap — 25 May 2025
New releases of Sigil, PipeWire, Qtractor, and Millisecond; new features in GIMP.
librearts.org
May 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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librearts.bsky.social
Week highlights: new releases of @gimpofficial.bsky.social, @inkscape, and @freecad.bsky.social; 3rd-party GIMP2 plugins are getting ported to GIMP3; @kde.org Plasma is getting an HDR calibration wizard

See here for details: librearts.org/2025/05/week...
Weekly recap — 18 May 2025
New releases of GIMP, Inkscape and FreeCAD; Plasma is getting an HDR calibration wizard
librearts.org
May 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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gimpofficial.bsky.social
www.gimp.org/news/2025/05...

Bugfix and minor improvements -to the GNU Image Manipulation Program #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #GIMP
GIMP - GIMP 3.0.4 Released
Release news for version GIMP 3.0.4
www.gimp.org
May 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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lgm.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy
Two weeks until Libre Graphics Meeting 2025 in Nuremberg, Germany.

The Libre Graphics Meeting is an annual meeting on Free/Libre and Open Source software for graphics.

community • talks • workshops • meetings

May 28 – 31
We are hosted in Karl-Bröger-Zentrum

https://libregraphicsmeeting.org […]
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post.lurk.org
May 15, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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librearts.bsky.social
Week highlights: new version of Shotcut, CMYK PDF exporting has landed in Inkscape, Google Summer of Code 2025 has announced students/projects

librearts.org/2025/05/week...
Weekly recap — 11 May 2025
New version of Shotcut; CMYK PDF in Inkscape; GSoC2025 announces students/projects
librearts.org
May 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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librearts.bsky.social
Wondering what interesting projects @gimpofficial.bsky.social, Inkscape, @blender3d.bsky.social, @freecad.bsky.social, and others got this year for Google Summer of Code? I went ahead and made a complete list so you don't have to :)

librearts.org/2025/05/gsoc...
Google Summer of Code 2025 projects announced
Here is what students around the world will be contributing to GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, FreeCAD, and other projects
librearts.org
May 8, 2025 at 11:34 PM