News : Krita, Inkscape and Gimp - July updates.

All of these free softwares: Krita, Inkscape, and GIMP have recent updates, with Krita 5.2.11 and Inkscape 1.4.2 released on July 31, 2025, and GIMP 3.0.4 from June 23, 2025

... most of these released are focusing on bug fixes and new features.

News : Libre Graphics Meeting 2025 on inkscape website

Right after Inkscape Summit in Nuremberg, from May 28th to the 31st, the team attended to the Libre Graphics Meeting 2025, also in Nuremberg. It was a great opportunity to learn and share, and a unique experience to see how Inkscape contributes to the Libre Graphics scenario globally.

You can read about this on the inkscape official website.

News : Inkscape 1.4.2 Released! | Here's What's New

Inkscape 1.4.2 is here! This update brings more than 70 bug & crash fixes, a fresh splash screen, new path cleanup tools, updated translations and enhanced support for file formats like Affinity Designer and Vectornator.

See this video from the LogosByNick - the official youtube channel.

... nothing on the Inkscape - the official youtube channel.

Inkscape : watercolor effect on inkscape version 1.4 .

... the watercolor effect in inkscape can be found in the main menu : Filters - Textures - Watercolor.

Just draw a shape an then select the filter.

Use Filters - Filter Editor ... to edit the filter, see this image:

News : Inkscape 1.4 released .

See this video from the SweaterCatDesigns youtube channel.

The Inkscape official youtube channel don't have a video with this new released version.

News : Inkscape Is About To Revolutionize The Shape Builder | v1.4 Beta Update

Inkscape : Create an extension for inkscape.

You can create your own extensions in inkscape with all features you need to improve the working area.

One extension can have minimum two file: the basic Python source code and another file with the graphic user interface ...

The source code of Python file can be link with the G.U.I. source code type file INX.

The source code for python can be customized and this is the main reason is no need to add it here.

Let's see the source code for the INX file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<inkscape-extension xmlns="http://www.inkscape.org/namespace/inkscape/extension">
    <name>Default extension example</name>
    <id>default.extensions.example</id>
    <param name="tab" type="notebook">
        <page name="Options" gui-text="Options">
            <param name="value_int" type="int" min="0" max="9" gui-text="INT type value from 0 up to 9 : ">10</param>
            <param name="value_bool" type="bool" gui-text="BOOL value set to false : ">false</param>
            <param name="value_space" type="float" gui-text="FLOAT value set to 0.1 custom range min 0.0 up max=99.0 : " min="0.0" max="99.0">0.1</param>
                <param name="option_group selection" type="optiongroup" appearance="combo" gui-text="Options :">
                <option value="1">1</option>
                <option value="2">2</option>
                <option value="3">3</option>
            </param>
		<param name="grouppick" type="bool" gui-text="selection pick ..." gui-description="This is gui-description">false</param>
            <param name="pickmode" type="optiongroup" appearance="combo" gui-text="pick values group:">
                <option value="first">first</option>
                <option value="second">second</option>
            </param> 
	</page>
        <page name="Help" gui-text="Help for default extension example">
            <label xml:space="preserve">This is example of default extension example
	You can use this INX file and PY files type named 'default_extension_example'</label>
        </page>
    </param>
    <effect>
        <object-type>all</object-type>
        <effects-menu>
            <submenu name="catafest"/>
        </effects-menu>
    </effect>
    <script>
        <command location="inx" interpreter="python">default_extension_example.py</command>
    </script>
</inkscape-extension>

Bellow you can see some screenshots with these result

Inkscape : Learn to Use All 172 Extensions in Inkscape!

... another good video tutorial from MartinVDAIllustration youtube channel.

Inkscape : Mosaic effect with pattern along path.

More videos on the official youtube channel - 2dgameartguru.

News : Inkscape 1.4 released.

This month was the starting point for the 1.4 release, which is Inkscape last Gtk3 based release before moving onto Gtk4. Many of the fixes in this list have been worked on in a backwards way as we fixed them in 1.4.x first and will forward port them to the main inkscape development later.

The issues we have been working to can be found here: https://gitlab.com/groups/inkscape/-/milestones/13

News : 5 Obscure Inkscape Features That You May Not Know

... an older video tutorial from earlier this month that introduces important new features of Inkscape that you should be using in your illustrations right now.

News : About Screen Contest

The new inkscape contest for Celebrating Artists, Inkscape, and Community can be found on the official webpage.

For each new version of Inkscape, we invite all Inkscape artists, newcomers and seasoned professionals, to submit an artwork for the "About Screen" contest. The upcoming release is Inkscape 1.4 (and we'll make a separate announcement for helping us test drive when it's ready)!

The About Screen is an image that you get to see when you click on Help → About in Inkscape to find more information about the version of the program installed on your device. Here's last year's winner, Isometric Madness by Denis Kuznetsky that features the version number in the back of a truck!

But the About Screen Contest is about much more than the About Screen. Contest artwork is also frequently featured in news articles about the release, on the inkscape.org download page, and in other locations.

Inkscape : Blend Logo - Inkscape tutorials for beginners.

A new video tutorial with inkscape from GraphicDesignStudio.

News : Laurel Design Tutorial (Inkscape)

You can find a good youtube channel with inkscape video tutorials on GraphicDesignStudio.

News : Inkscape Challenge | 1 November 2023 - 30 November 2023.

Have you heard?

Inkscape is 20 years old this month!

We want YOU to create something for the #Inkscape anniversary!

T-shirts, comic strips, embroidery... Show us what you can do with Inkscape!

You can read more on the inkscape forum.

The Huion tablet works in Inkscape.

Today, I tested this version of Inkscape serial number 1.3 (0e150ed6c4, 2023-07-21) with my old Huion WH1409 tablet version.

As you know Huion WH1409 tablet comes with different models and drivers. My tablet works with the old version of Huion WH1409 (2048) drivers.

I can tell you dfin tests that the drivers for these Huion WH1409 models are very different and must be tested.

You will have to set from Mode as Screen or Windows from the main menu Input Devices .... You can see is set to Disabled.

Inkscape : Cartoon Background - Time-Lapse

News : Inkscape 1.3: HUGE Updates .

News : Inkscape’s 1.3 beta release.

Inkscape reveals tools for organizing efficiently in beta version of 1.3, you can read more on the official website.

The highlights of this preview and testing version are:

• Shape builder
• On-Canvas Pattern Editing
• Pattern Editor
• Page margin & bleed
• Document Resources Dialog
• Return of Search, opacity & blend modes in Layers & Objects dialog and the (now optional) persistent snap bar
• Font Collections
• Syntax highlighting in XML Editor
• LPE dialog user interface redesign
• Improved performance thanks to fully asynchronous, multithreaded rendering
• Better PDF import

Inkscape : Blend from clipboard.

This option does not allow us to create brushes using the option of Draw freehand lines and Blend from clipboard having in the clipboard brush SVG image.

You need an SVG that looks like a brush and then save it in the clipboard.

The correct steps are shown in the attached image: