Things Libre Arts didn't blog about 2022

Alexandre Prokoudine does a great job with his Libre Arts blog and he made a big overview of the year 2022 with a preview of 2023:

As he looks at the big picture I collected some news from small more hidden open source graphics projects:

Mobile

As I'm only interested in the non mainstream mobile stacks I'm ignoring Android an OS here completely.

Megapixels

Megapixels got two new releases (1.5 and 1.6) with nice improvements.Meanwhile is Purism working on an fork called millipixels that is using libcamera.

libcamera

Connecting the real world with software


The first version of libcamera released and a lot of big companies like RedHat, Purism and the Raspberry Pi Foundation are working together to improve the camera stack.

Image Viewer

Image viewers are the kind of programmes that every one thinks are easy to write. But then you realise not only there are thousands of different file formats with metadata (with informations like "rotate this image", "this is an panorama", "geo locations" (The users will ask you to show a map.),... ) in different formats, no you even have to care about colour management (Not one standard but ICC version 1-4 and OpenColorIO) and different workflows of your users. And then at the end it still needs to be fast and easy to use.
I think this is the reason why from time to time new image viewers appear optimised for special purposes.

Geeqie

Geeqie 2.0 released in August. It is a very feature rich, extendable image viewer and organiser. 

Loupe


 
A new very simple image viewer for GNOME. I mention it here because the developer are using all the hot new stuff. Loupe is written in Rust with GTK4 with a though friendly UI usable an desktops and mobile devices.

Cyan

This is on of these special image viewers, designed for prepress (print) work got a new version. It is useful for things like converting an image from RGB to CMYK, or the other way around. Cyan supports colour profiles complying with the International Color Consortium (ICC) standard, and strives to create as colour-accurate images as possible, with support for RGB, CMYK and GRAY.

PV (The old name was Lux)

Again on of these special image viewers. This time optimiced for panoramas. PV got some improvements last year. On of its cool features is, it can reads PTO files made with software like hugin so you can view your panorama even before stinging the single images together to one image.

GIMP/GEGL Plugins

Liam Quin

Liam wrote a nice series of blog posts about GEGL plug-ins. 
  1. GEGL Plug-Ins for GIMP. Part One: Using GEGL Plug-Ins
  2. GEGL Plug-Ins for GIMP. Part Two: GEGL Graph
  3. GEGL Plug-Ins for GIMP. Part Three: Writing C Plug-Ins 

LinuxBeaver


 

LinuxBeaver started developing third party GEGL Filters for Gimp and it looks like he cant stop. ;)
While he is developing is filters he s quite active tweeting about his process.

Video

I don't do much video stuff, but one tool got my attention:

Gyroflow


 
It is an application that can stabilize your video by using motion data from a gyroscope and optionally an accelerometer.

Small Tools

And then are are this small tools that are useful for very spatial task or at lest make fun to use.

Photoflare

 
 
A simple but powerful image editor got a new version. 

Emblem

 

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