MyPaint is a free and open-source raster graphics editor for digital painting. It is available for Windows, macOS, and Unix-like operating systems.[10][11][12]
Original author(s) | Martin Renold[1][2][3] |
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Developer(s) | MyPaint Contributors |
Initial release | March 12, 2005[4][5] |
Stable release | 2.0.1[6]
/ 29 May 2020 |
Preview release | 2.0.2-alpha[7]
/ 29 May 2020 |
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Written in | C, C++ and Python (GTK) |
Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD |
Platform | IA-32 and x64[8] |
Type | Raster graphics editor |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later[9] |
Website | mypaint |
MyPaint versions up to 1.00 and bug/issue tracking were hosted by Gna!.[13]
MyPaint uses graphical control elements from GTK and, since 1.2.0, uses GTK 3.[14]
In 2020 MyPaint 2.0.0 release succeeds MyPaint 1.2, released back in 2017, and brings a stack of new features and improved tools with it.[15]
Among MyPaint's capabilities are:
Original author(s) | Martin Renold[1][2][3] |
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Developer(s) | libmypaint Contributors |
Initial release | November 23, 2008[16] |
Stable release | 1.6.1
/ May 12, 2020[17] |
Repository | github |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD |
Type | Brush library |
License | ISC[18] |
Website | mypaint |
MyPaint has a custom procedural brush engine optimized for use with pressure-sensitive graphics tablets. In later MyPaint versions, the engine was broken out into the separately maintained libmypaint library to make it easier to integrate into other applications.[19]
MyPaint's brush library is available as a Krita plugin, and also GIMP has support for MyPaint brushes by default.[20]
MyPaint was used by David Revoy, the art director of Sintel (the third computer-animated film by the Blender Foundation).[21]
The Adobe PSD file format changed its license in 2006, and it is now only permitted to develop applications using it in order to interact with Adobe software.[22] As a result, a comprehensive graphics design format, OpenRaster, was developed based on the Open Document format. MyPaint uses Open Raster as its default format, but also supports saving images to PNG or JPEG.[23]
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