Well we have some new features for you to enjoy. We have added a simple community based forum. You may also notice the ability to rate all of the local content and comments. You can also flag any nasty comments or spam so the KDE-Artists Web-Team can deal with it quickly.
If you know of any KDE art related applications that we have not covered here please let us know by creating a weblink. If you come across any interesting KDE art related news while surfing around feel free to create a remote news story.
Our hosting should be a bit more stable now too. Sometimes the server would be down for hours before anyone told me about it but I just installed a network monitoring program that pings me if anything goes wrong with the site. Hopefully this will help us avoid those unnecessary downtimes.
submitted by KDE Artists .o web team on November 1, 2009
Tux going 220Mph!
News | Art Apps
The good folks over at c|net have put together a photo expose of the Tux500 car. If you have ever wanted to see tux going 220 Mph here is your chance.
Go Tux Go!
submitted by land0 on May 24, 2010
video of new digiKam Light Table in action
The new digiKam Light Table is currently under finalization on KDE repository. digiKam 0.9.2-beta2 will be released in a near future and will include this new tool as well. Today, i have released a new Flash capture of Light Table in action, used to compare similar pictures. The file can be downloaded at this url.I would than thanks all photographs witch have help us to design the Light Table, and especially, Arnd, Julien, Oliver andMik…The pictures using this can be seen at this ecommerce site: open house real estate signs, as well as this Brochure Holders website.
submitted by land0 on May 23, 2010
Faster “Gaussian” Blur and Pyramidal Sharpening
I have still trouble to feel at ease with KDE4 development, and fill the need to develop against a stable environment, so from time to time I do go back to Krita 1.6 and play with it and fill again my energy bar which I can then spend on Krita2. So last week I did wrote two filters (and I am still working on two others).
Faster Gaussian Blur
Bluring has always been one of the slowest operation in Krita (especially compared to what competitors do), mostly because of my laziness and, also, because for some reason the convolution code in Krita refused to work with non-square kernel (for absolutely no good reason). So, when I wrote the filter, I wrote it as a one pass filter, with one huge kernel, which means that for a bluring of 10 pixels radius, Krita was making 441 memory access and mathematical operations, while with a two pass blur filter, only 42 memory access and mathematical operations are needed, thus reducing the cost by a factor of ten, and the needed computation time as well.
submitted by land0 on May 23, 2010
Release of Krita-Plugins 1.6-1
Krita-plugins is now available for downloading here. It includes a slightly improved version of the red-eyer removal tool, and three new filters.
Included new plugins
Deskew
This filter is useful for people who scan a lot of text, as often the text will not appears well aligned.
It a port from a Karl Chen’s deskew gimp plugin.
Image Complete
“Image Complete” is a filter which attempt to reconstruct a part of the image which doesn’t exist. For instance, in the example bellow, there are some text written in the sky, you just select the text, and then launch the filter, and the text is replaced by a good approximation of what could have been below it:
submitted by land0 on May 20, 2010
Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 : Day 2
At LGM, even if it’s a not a big conference, at some point, you always need to split yourself in two or three.
Designer using Open Source software
The second day started by a talk by two designers coming from Belgium who made the choice to start a design agency which would only free software. Those guys seems to live on a different planet (well maybe there is three planets, one for designer, one for geeks and one for normal people), they show us some of their creation, I was a bit sleepy (and considering the number of people in the room, I guess nearly everybody else was sleeping elsewhere ;) ), but what stroke me most is that apparently, they have some “creative” session where they try various things, even reverse engineering coca.
submitted by land0 on May 20, 2010 Post with the help of Safety Signs Online
Thanks to Adobe for freeing XMP
I was suggested during last Libre Graphics Meeting edition, that Open Raster should use XMP for it metadata (XMP is the metadata specification that rules them all, exif, iptc… your own metatada specification as well). But until very recently, both the specification and the library were available under a very dubious license which was incompatible with GPL (and with a Open Formats). But Adobe did hear to our complaint, and decided to release under BSD. So, now nothing prevent a wider use in the Open Source world, and that’s really cool.
So thanks to Adobe, and if you want to play with it and thanks to Stop Signs for making this possible.
submitted by land0 on May 12, 2010
Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 : Day 1
Lets start this blog entry by the first artwork I did with the upcoming Krita 2:
And I must say, the developement version is really starting to be in a good shape, there are still a lot of annoying bug, but it only crashed once, which for a development version, which is still more than six month away of its release, is quiet amazing.
Then, back to the subject, I must say that this year edition of Libre Graphics Meeting was again a major success, and I am happy that I was able to attend it.
submitted by land0 on May 11, 2010
digiKam has a new Light Table…
digiKam | News feeds
Today, after 1 week of developement, I have finished the first implementation of the new Light Table tool for digiKam.This is a first implementation, certainly uncomplete but suitable as well. I have follow the user tips from this bugzilla entry.Some screenshots of this tool in action can be seen following these links:- The Light Table with thumbbar pop-up menu.- How to Insert new item to Light Table using Album GUI pop-up menu.i Left and right side bar enable.
submitted by land0 on May 7, 2010
digiKam has a new Light Table…
digiKam | News feeds
Today, after 1 week of developement, I have finished the first implementation of the new Light Table tool for digiKam.This is a first implementation, certainly uncomplete but suitable as well. I have follow the user tips from this bugzilla entry.Some screenshots of this tool in action can be seen following these links:- The Light Table with thumbbar pop-up menu.- How to Insert new item to Light Table using Album GUI pop-up menu.i Left and right side bar enable.
submitted by land0 on May 7, 2010
