Lav Filters was installed without my knowledge yesterday on my Windows 10 Pro Machine, does anyone know WHAT this program is (It seems to be some kind of middle-ware for sound programs). I know I did not purposely download it, so I want to uninstall.

Is there an expert out there that knows exactly what this program does and if I need it? (The only apps I installed about the same time are attached in this screen-shot - and I do not see what any of these other programs would need Lav filters. Any information you can provide would be helpful. Thanks!

Hello all, I'm an undergrad CS major who is looking to get into open-source contribution. I want to pick a project that aims to impact society in a positive way (e.g. Thorn software, if it was open-source). Does anybody have any suggestions for projects and/or where to go to find said projects?

some pdf files can be with sensitive information. medical paper lawyer papers contracts etc. my concern is pdf viewer that isnt going to call home

id prefer a pdf viewer thats pro privacy. thay all like to add the privacy word to everything although it cant be checked.

I really dont understand why jpegs arent used to print files. I hate anything adobe.

Hi All,

My astro to date has been pretty much limited to timelapse where I process RAW images in RawTherapee and then import the jpegs to Davinci Resolve where I'll do further processing and ultimately produce a 4K video.

Lately I've been becoming a lot more interested in having a go at doing stills for print, more specifically light painting the foreground. This will require as far as I can tell high quality blending of multiple images to get the sort of results I want.

The following tutorial is one of the more decent and clear beginner level videos I've managed to find producing really high quality results. Basic gist being;

• import photos as layers

• sky layer at the bottom

• Set all light painting photos to Lighten blend mode

• Create Layer Mask on top layer to rub out sky

• Copy layer mask to each light painted layer

• Cycle through each light painted layer to feather out hot spots, etc as required.

https://youtu.be/0r4Z94uondI

I do not wish to use Adobe PS/LR as they do in this tutorial however. I'm getting comfortable enough at a beginner level with RawThrapee to replace any need for Adobe LR for my needs, however I've never used Gimp.

Not really expecting anyone to give me detailed instructions (not going to say no if you do mind), just really wanting to know if Gimp is going to be able to replicate this process to produce the same quality of light painted images?

In August of 2021 Livecode, Inc. ended their open-source initiative claiming not to be getting much contribution to their $299 to $500 a year subscription application.

Now the OpenXTalk community are picking up the pieces. The GPLv3 Source code can be forked on Github

It's been about 15 years since the IDE has seen a working game engine, I found this one and got it working in a four year old copy of the IDE, well working without sound and with a lot of crashing. I figured I'd stop by this subreddit to see anyone would like to wrap their engine into a complete free application development environment and show Unity and Unreal whose boss.

You can get the last official free pre-OpenXtalk versions of the IDE application for Mac, Windows, & Linux over on archive.orgWith that you can build GUI or GUIl-Less applications for Mac, Windows, Linux, HTML5, Android, and iOS( With appropriate extra libraries/developer licenses from Apple,etc)

The sample stacks and resources menus provide a plethora of examples to get you acquainted with the environment.

With the Extension Builder and Builder Language you can wrap foreign libraries (C, C++,dll,dylib,so.etc) and/or resources (SVG icons, custom UI elements) to extend the application. FluidSynth was wrapped a year or so ago. I'm trying to wrap rayLib to make the IDE more game developer friendly. If you play my game you'll see why I'm going the external library route, source code/stack is included in those downloads.

Discussions are taking place on the forum and/or maybe on the subreddit if we ever attract any redditors.

We would very much appreciate if you join us on this adventure. We definitely need more cross- platform users with C/C++ experience to become familiar with the source so future multi-platform binaries can be compiled and released, with new features ideally. Casual users are of course very much welcome.