Graphics – Purism https://puri.sm/ High-quality computers that protect your freedom and privacy Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:29:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.28 https://puri.sm/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-purism-logo-rectangle-1-32x32.png Graphics – Purism https://puri.sm/ 32 32 Cameras: It’s Complicated https://puri.sm/posts/cameras-its-complicated/ Mon, 09 May 2022 15:39:40 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=74945 Two years before I started working on cameras for the Librem 5, I thought the work would go something like this: first, write a driver, then maybe calibrate the colors, connect to the camera support infrastructure, and bam! PureOS users on the phone would then do teleconferences with Jitsi or snap selfies with Cheese, just […]

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]]> Animating Pepper & Carrot with a respectful laptop https://puri.sm/posts/animating-pepper-carrot-with-librem-laptop/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:16:43 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=74674 I made a 2D traditional animation as part of a project I am working on for Purism, with a goal to demonstrate the power of the Librem 14 as a creative platform. Therefore, as a follow up to my previous post about making hand drawn animations with Librem computers, and as an addition to the […]

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]]> Video Editing on Linux Featuring Librem 14 https://puri.sm/posts/video-editing-on-linux-featuring-librem-14/ Thu, 27 Jan 2022 01:02:46 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73887 Video editing is a complex topic with a wide-range of software to choose from. In this series, produced with Gardiner Bryant, we will cover some of the common video editing suites available for Linux. We will then jump into some of the other software that you can choose when producing multimedia content on Linux. Instead of just […]

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]]> 2021 Year in Review: Design https://puri.sm/posts/2021-year-in-review-design/ Mon, 10 Jan 2022 17:00:31 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73566 This year, just like the previous years, the Purism design team has been focusing on improving the overall Librem products experience. We took this opportunity to contribute to some amazing upstream projects like Libadwaita for the world to benefit from those modern and respectful technologies. Our goal is to make each Librem product simple and […]

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]]> Gaming That Respects You https://puri.sm/posts/gaming-that-respects-you/ Fri, 18 Dec 2020 17:37:14 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=70560 The Librem 5 features high quality, free games that respect you. Play 2D and 3D games without ads, without in-app purchases, and without tracking. Discover the Librem 5 : Best Phone for Ad-Free Gaming Purism believes building the Librem 5 is just one step on the road to launching a digital rights movement, where we—the-people […]

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]]> Hand Drawn 2D Animation with PureOS and Librem Laptops https://puri.sm/posts/hand-drawn-2d-animation-with-pureos-and-librem-laptops/ Tue, 13 Oct 2020 13:35:47 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69658 Professional animation is not just possible but ideal with free software, this story shares what is possible running PureOS, Librem laptops, and accessories. I have been using free software for 6 years and each year these freedom respecting professional tools I use seem to improve faster than the commercial proprietary pace. Krita, as an example, […]

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]]> Video Editing with KDenLive and the Librem Mini part 3: Transitions https://puri.sm/posts/video-editing-with-kdenlive-and-the-librem-mini-part-3-transitions/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 19:39:52 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69501 This is part of a series by our guest blogger Tre Scranton covering video creation on the Librem Mini. To read part 2, covering keyframe animations – click here] In the third and final video of our video series on how to create professional movies with the Librem Mini and KDenLive video editing app, we’re […]

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]]> Video Editing with KDenLive and the Librem Mini part 2: Keyframe Animations https://puri.sm/posts/video-editing-with-kdenlive-and-the-librem-mini-part-2-keyframe-animations/ Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:19:10 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69462 [This is part of a series by our guest blogger Tre Scranton covering video creation on the Librem Mini. To read part 1, covering transposing content over your media and using chroma key – click here] Last week we introduced you to a premier workflow for film editors and videographers using free software and freedom-respecting […]

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]]> Making a 3D graphics video for the Librem 5 https://puri.sm/posts/making-a-3d-graphics-video-for-the-librem-5/ Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:07:36 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69399 At Purism, we do all our videos and other promotional material internally, with Librem hardware and free software only. This is part of our policy and I think it’s important, when I believe in something, to act in accordance with it. A few days after releasing the video of the Librem 5 hardware design, I […]

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]]> Designing an Icon for Your App https://puri.sm/posts/designing-an-icon-for-your-app/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 16:08:05 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=67366 Originally published on 30 December 2019 on Tobias Bernard’s GNOME Blog. You’ve designed your app’s interface, and found the perfect name for it. But of course a great app also needs a great icon before you can release it to the world. After the name, the app icon is the most important part of an […]

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]]> Librem 5 November 2019 Software Update https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-november-2019-software-update/ Tue, 24 Dec 2019 13:32:33 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=66849 General In November, we shipped the Birch batch of Librem 5, fixed audio routing, made changes to various apps and shared Librem 5 at various meetups and talks. A couple of other articles appeared about software development: Oxidizing Squeekboard described the use of the Rust programming language in the Librem 5’s virtual keyboard, and the […]

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]]> Librem 5 July Update https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-july-update/ Fri, 12 Jul 2019 16:25:24 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=64648 Hi Everyone! The Librem 5 team has been hard at work. and we want to update you all on our software progress. These last few weeks have been heavily focused on polishing the UI and bug fixes, in order to get ready for a string of journalist demos. When we deliver the Librem 5, its […]

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]]> Librem 5 App Design Tutorial — Part III https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-app-design-tutorial-naming-your-app/ Tue, 02 Jul 2019 15:44:45 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=64130 Naming your app So you finally started working on the awesome idea you had for a GNOME app, designed a great interface for it and want to start building it. You open Gitlab in order to create a new repository… and oh no!, it wants a name. Existential dread sets in. Naming things is hard, […]

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]]> The New libhandy 0.0.10 https://puri.sm/posts/the-new-libhandy-0-0-10/ Mon, 17 Jun 2019 12:15:23 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=64140 Libhandy 0.0.10 just got released, and you can get this new version here. It comes with a few new adaptive widgets for your GTK app we’d like to tell you about: The View Switcher GNOME applications typically use a GtkStackSwitcher to switch between their views. This design works fine on a desktop, but not so […]

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]]> Purism’s Librem 5 Progress in Videos https://puri.sm/posts/purisms-librem-5-progress-in-videos/ Wed, 17 Apr 2019 15:10:05 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=63071 The Purism team is making a remarkable progress to deliver the Librem 5 phone. Nothing shows the progress we have been making quite as clearly as a demonstration of the Librem 5 status from the devkit itself – so let us take you through a handful of (short) videos showcasing the current possibilities and development […]

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]]> Librem 5 general development report — September 6th, 2018 https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-20/ Thu, 06 Sep 2018 19:10:27 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=57997 Conferences Some of the Purism team members attended Akademy 2018 in Vienna. This conference facilitated further discussions with KDE developers and it was nice to meet everyone in person! We would like to express our gratitude to @Puri_sm, not only for sponsoring #Akademy2018, but also for working with our developers so we can have a […]

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]]> Librem 5 general development report — June 11, 2018 https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-14/ Mon, 11 Jun 2018 22:38:53 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=53690 There has been some exciting work done on the Librem 5 project and while there is still plenty of work left, we would like to highlight the accomplishments the team has achieved over the last couple of weeks. So here please enjoy a brief update on our recent efforts and victories. Software Work There is […]

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]]> Initial Plasma Mobile enablement on Librem 5 i.MX 6 test boards https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-9/ Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:31:53 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=49826 As many of you know, the Librem 5 phone will work with two options for your desktop environment, a GNOME based phone shell and Plasma Mobile. Working closely with the KDE community, we were able to install, run, and even see mobile network provider service on Plasma Mobile! The purpose of this article is to […]

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]]> Librem 5 puzzle pieces starting to come together—graphics, adaptive applications, docs and SDK https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-7/ Sat, 03 Mar 2018 15:36:21 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=49252 The Librem 5 is a big project. And like a lot of big projects, as you probably know, it can appear overwhelming, until you can break the parts down into logical steps. Like a large puzzle scattered on a table, our team has been organizing and beginning to assemble all the pieces. This is very […]

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]]> Librem 5 general development report — February 2nd, 2018 https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-3/ Fri, 02 Feb 2018 16:30:15 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=47791 The Librem 5 and recent industry news Lately, news headlines have been packed with discussions about critical CPU bugs which are not only found in Intel CPUs, but also partially in AMD CPUs and some ARM cores. At the same time, some of our backers have voiced concerns about the future of NXP in light […]

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]]> Initial Touch and Web Browsing experiments on Librem 5 prototyping boards https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-touch-and-web-browsing/ Thu, 05 Oct 2017 15:16:50 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=32299 When it comes to prototyping the Librem 5, we are working hard and making progress on several sides. As you have seen in yesterday’s testing update blog post, we are working on development hardware in order to start getting software development groundwork done. Today, I’m sharing the results of a quick experiment with web and […]

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]]> The Librem 5 Development Roadmap and Progress Towards i.MX 8 https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-roadmap-to-imx8/ Wed, 04 Oct 2017 14:45:55 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=20964 The Librem 5 crowdfunding campaign is still cranking along nicely, while it is going on we wanted to provide a progress report on the hardware selection as well as the advancements with our existing development boards. TL;DR: The base hardware with i.MX 6 is demonstrably working. i.MX 8M, Etnaviv, full HD, are the likely hardware […]

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]]> Make your own Librem 5 concept art. https://puri.sm/posts/make-your-own-librem-5-concept-art/ Thu, 21 Sep 2017 19:40:38 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=26898 A few days ago, a very talented Librem 5 enthusiast asked me for some HD material to create his own Librem 5 concept art, so I have put together a couple of blank renders of the handset, along with the logos in SVG format. All this design is currently a work in progress and I […]

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