Public Domain Clip Art

Openclipart.org is a pretty cool community initiative. It’s a repository of public domain clip art that is free to use by anyone, forever. It already seems to have close to 20,000 free clip art images.

So, I’ve been contributing to the collection, through my studio Pencil Sauce. I’ve also been logging my collection on a blog. Take a look.

Inkscape 0.46 is here

The amazing Inkscape is ready with yet another update. The latest in the series has some jaw dropping new features:

• Paintbucket tool

• Tweak tool

• 3D Box tool

• Live path effects

• Color management

• New SVG filters and UI

• Native PDF and AI import

• XAML import/export

• Open Clip Art Library integration (import/export)

• Stock patterns

• Bitmap editing extension effects

• Full on-canvas gradient editing

• Engraver’s Toolbox in the Calligraphic tool

• Touch selection

• Dockable dialogs

• Command-line access to verbs

• Snapping made usable

• “3D” / axonometric grid

• Angled guidelines

• Conversion of objects to guidelines

• Significant speed and interactivity improvements

• Hundreds of smaller features and bugfixes

 Go download and make some neat art.