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Adobe releases Fresco 2.7

Digital painting app gets Photoshop-style Adjustment layers, improved layer masking, plus image alignment guides and grids.

Wednesday, July 21st, 2021

Otoy ships Sculptron 1.1

GPU-based tool for sculpting animation caches gets initial support for Alembic, plus option to use procedural textures as alphas.

Tuesday, May 11th, 2021

Maxon acquires forger

Cinema 4D developer buys the veteran digital sculpting app. Creator Javier Edo joins Maxon as a principal software developer.

Tuesday, March 9th, 2021

Escape Motions releases Rebelle 4

Neat natural media paint package gets new thick oil paint system, true RYB colour mixing for watercolours.

Sunday, December 20th, 2020

Adobe ships Fresco 1.9

Natural media painting and vector drawing app for iOS and Windows devices gets new brush previews, plus support for clipping masks.

Thursday, August 20th, 2020

GIMP team ships GIMP 2.10.18

Nice workflow update gives the open-source image editor Photoshop-like tool groups, faster PSD import, new 3D Transform tool.

Monday, March 2nd, 2020

Foundry ships Mari 4.6

Update extends the 3D texturing app's procedural materials system, adds V-Ray and 3Delight shaders, and streamlines the node graph.

Wednesday, November 6th, 2019

Blender 2.80 ships

Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019