David Revoy

I decided to write a blog post to silence the rare but existing gossips saying I use open-source because I'm ....
... a poor artist  (¬_¬)

It's wrong : I use open-source since 2009 as a personal choice. Let me tell you, 'how'/'why' it happens.
( and sorry in advance for my english )

Big Update and maintenance of my "Compilscripts" small project ; a set of script to help you to auto-compile and install :

• Krita
• Mypaint
• VC

from source on Linux Mint KDE 14 ( check here all my install tips for Linux Mint KDE for digital painter ).

15 may 2013 notes : Due to change in VC ( a lib for Krita ) the script will not work to compile Krita for the moment. I'll fix this soon. Read the last comments for a workaround.

Gimp 2.8.4 was released yesterday, with bug fixes to polish the 2.8 family. 
I particularly like the new fixes for this version, because it solve a strong problem introduced in the 2.8 serie ; slow and laggy selection tools and transformation widget , brush outline.
I was active on the Gimp bug report to give feedback and thanks to the brilliant Gimp developers the problem was solved just after few days. With this version, all is much more responsive. The fix slept since this autumn waiting the release, and now released.

Here is how to update your version using the updated PPa of otto06217 :

PPA for Ubuntu 12.04 / 12.10, Linux Mint 13 or 14 :

Open a terminal , and copy paste this lines one by one, then press enter. Press ok or enter if the terminal prompt you.
Note : Ctrl+Shift+V to paste inside a terminal.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gimp gimp-plugin-registry gmic

 

Here is another article to propose ideas on how to improve perspective tool.
As usual, only mockup and ideas here. No codes.

I made it because I felt driven by the sincere desire to propose a cool design.
Solving problems on user side and designing an ultimate feature was a fun brainstorm for me.

At the very end of 2012, the code of the famous free and open-source digital-painting program Mypaint 1.1 was released. If you still using Mypaint 1.0 , you might be interested to see what happened into this one year of change. For reading an excellent review about it , please read the very cool and full article wrote by Alexandre Prokoudine on Libre Graphic World , he also made a cool video.

Here I will focus on writing a review for Mypaint 1.0 user, to let them know what changed and how they will benefit from it.

Gimp 2.8 Save/Export new behavior is far to be popular according to the gimp-development mailing list of this month or various feedback I had after my tweet about it .
I try here to write a bit about it, and deliver some thoughts and proposition ... And even an immediate  workaround solution.