• Fixed the bug where saving as 8-bit PNG/GIF/BMP wasn’t always working, usually with larger images.
• Improved the performance of the Gaussian Blur effect by 30-40%.
• Improved the performance of all the layer blending modes by 15-30%.
• Improved the performance of zooming with the mouse wheel on dual-core Intel Atom systems.
• Updated to support .NET 4.0 if no other version of .NET is installed.
• Reduced download size from 4.8MB down to 3.5MB.
• Fixed a small error in the Chinese translation.

Service Pack 3 (SP3) is now required for Windows XP users. For those using Windows Vista, Service Pack 1 (SP1) installed is required. Paint.NET also depends on Microsoft's .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, which is automatically installed if it isn't already on the system.

According to the website, Paint.NET is a freeware, free for all uses including personal, business, commercial, government, and school; however the source code is not available for download at this time.

Paint.NET v3.5.5 was released on 25 April 2010, 2 months after the previous Paint.NET v3.5.4 release.

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The meeting space is truly unique, it is an historic piano factory called De Pianofabriek kunstenwerkplaats in Brussels Belgium, a freshly renovated into a lively exhibition and workspace. LGM 2010 gives software developers, artists, designers and other graphics professionals the opportunity to collaborate and learn from each other. LGM emphasizes the sharing of collective creativity, innovation and ideas and is free for everyone to attend.

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LGM provides the time and place for developers and users to interact. Formal tutorials, talks, workshops, informal birds-of-a-feather (BOF) sessions and meetings over lunch give all who attend an opportunity to delve deep into discussion of libre graphics. Teams set up stalls to connect with their colleagues and the public.

Important work on open color management systems and the SVG vector graphics standard for print and web will take place at LGM2010. In addition, an increasing number of artists, designers and academics showcasing novel uses of libre graphics software are getting involved this year, and specific activities will be organized for students from art and design schools.

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Attendance at LGM is free for developers and users alike, so the conference counts on the generosity of the open source graphics community to help underwrite the costs of putting on the conference and to help make it possible for individual open source developers to attend.

Support the development of a Free, Libre and Open Source application-ecosystem and make a donation!

The Libre Graphics Meeting aims to raise $10,000 to help cover travel costs for volunteer developers and presenters that would otherwise be unable to journey to Belgium.

All donations are tax deductible for US taxpayers. Donations from corporations and individuals can be done through http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926 or contact the Libre Graphics Meeting directly at lgm@gnome.org for larger donation.

Registration for LGM 2010 is open now for developers and users. The registrations are manually checked and confirmation may take up to two days.

Proposal of talk or presentation is also welcomed. Here is a list of about 30 current conference talk proposals.

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Compared to the work on Scribus 1.3.5, the development of Scribus 1.3.6 was focused on stabilizing the code base, and especially on weeding out issues that were mostly due to the porting of the code from Qt3 to Qt4.

Almost 150 bugs have been fixed since the release of 1.3.5. In addition, Scribus 1.3.6 provides some minor enhancements:

• New Scripter functions
• Usability improvements
• Translation updates
• More colour palettes
• Updates to the documentation
• Build instructions for OpenSolaris

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The Scribus Team considers this version to be quite stable and ready for many real-world use cases. However, since there are still some annoyances that prevent the release of version 1.4, more cautious users may want to stick with the officially stable version 1.3.3.14.

The Scribus Team will continue to implement new features and improvements in a new experimental branch. Once tested and confirmed as working flawlessly, they will be backported and become part of the 1.4 milestone.

Scribus is an open source desktop publishing software. Scribus supports most major image formats including scalable vector graphics (SVG). Professional type/image setting features include CMYK color model (process color, four color – Cyan, magenta, yellow, and key black) and ICC (International Color Consortium) color management. It has a built-in scripting engine using Python. It is available in more than 24 languages.

Scribus 1.3.6 is a free software released on 22 March 2010 under the GNU General Public License.

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• Articles/Tutorials on Making of Circolino
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• Making of Shootin’ Annie
• Making of Mii School
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The goal of the magazine is to provide quality learning content for the blender community, from the efforts of the community itself. BlenderArt Magazine is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5 license.

Blender is a 3D graphics application released as free software under the GNU General Public License, and the current version is Blender 2.49b (stable).

Blender can be used for modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, rigging, water simulations, skinning, animating, rendering, particle and other simulations, non-linear editing, compositing, and creating interactive 3D applications, including games.

Blender is available for a number of operating systems, including Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows. Blender’s features include advanced simulation tools such as rigid body, fluid, cloth and softbody dynamics, modifier-based modeling tools, powerful character animation tools, a node-based material and compositing system and Python for embedded scripting.

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Paint.NET v3.5.4 is available for Download, has just been released on February 25th, 2010.

Paint.NET is a freeware image and photo editing software developed on the .NET Framework for computers that run on Microsoft Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

This update fixes a few small bugs, and improves performance of the Flatten command.

• Improved performance of the Image->Flatten command by making it multithreaded.
• Fixed the File->Save As dialog not opening to the correct folder.
• Fixed a crash with certain plugins and their use of the File Open dialog.
• Fixed a very rare crash with the toolbar's font list.

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