Krita 2.9.4 ships
New update to the open-source painting app adds Photoshop-style layer styles, boosts performance.
Thursday, May 7th, 2015
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Sad Cat Software releases Bloom 1.0
The non-destructive, PSD-friendly 16-bit image editor formerly known as Ormr gets its official release.
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
Check out intriguing $19 paint app Paintstorm Studio
Natural media paint package acts like a hybrid of Painter and Manga Studio, with cool new tools on top.
Tuesday, March 31st, 2015
Serif launches Affinity Photo as free beta
Potential $50 Photoshop rival offers solid pro workflow, advanced tools like 'inpainting' and tilt-shift blur.
Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
Krita team releases stable beta of Krita 2.9
Open source paint app gets new Liquify tool, new colour selector, better PSD and RAW file handling.
Tuesday, December 16th, 2014
Download 12 free cutout people from VIShopper
High-resolution, supplied in PSD format with separate shadow layers and licensed for commercial use.
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
Escape Motions releases Flame Painter 3
Now shipping: Unique digital painting app to get improved Photoshop integration, Wacom tablet support.
Wednesday, April 30th, 2014
Allegorithmic ships Substance Designer 3.5
Free update to the texturing tool adds live link to Photoshop, new graph profiler, better 3D preview.
Friday, March 29th, 2013
Krita 2.6 adds support for OpenColorIO, layered PSDs
Open-source paint tool will 'soon be the standard' for 2D work in VFX on Linux, says ex-Digital Domain TD.
Friday, February 8th, 2013
The Foundry releases Nuke and NukeX 6.3v7
Compositing apps gain support for importing layered PSD files and the new OpenColorIO open standard.
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
The Foundry ships Mari 1.4
Latest update to 3D paint tool adds support for layered PSDs, triplanar texture projection and OpenColorIO.
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
cebas ships psd-manager 3.0 for 3ds Max
Avoid the tedium of having to assign scene IDs with the PSD exporter's new mask-generation system.
Thursday, September 8th, 2011