MyPaint

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MyPaint
Original author Martin Renold [1] [2] [3]
Developer MyPaint Contributors
Initial releaseMarch 12, 2005;20 years ago (2005-03-12) [4] [5]
Stable release
2.0.1 [6]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 29 May 2020
Preview release
2.0.2-alpha [7]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 29 May 2020
Repository
Written in C, C++ and Python (GTK)
Operating system Linux, macOS, Windows
Platform IA-32 and x64 [8]
Type Raster graphics editor
License GPL-2.0-or-later [9]
Website mypaint.app

MyPaint is a free and open-source raster graphics editor for digital painting. It is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. [10]

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History

MyPaint versions up to 1.00 and bug/issue tracking were hosted by Gna!. [11]

MyPaint uses graphical control elements from GTK and, since 1.2.0, uses GTK 3. [12]

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. [13]

Features

Among MyPaint's capabilities are:

libmypaint

libmypaint
Original author Martin Renold [1] [2] [3]
Developer libmypaint Contributors
Initial releaseNovember 23, 2008;17 years ago (2008-11-23) [14]
Stable release
1.6.1 / May 12, 2020;5 years ago (2020-05-12) [15]
Repository github.com/mypaint/libmypaint
Written in C
Operating system Linux, macOS, Windows
Type Brush library
License ISC [16]
Website mypaint.org

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. [17]

MyPaint's brush library is available as a Krita plugin, and also GIMP has support for MyPaint brushes by default. [18]

Media attention

MyPaint was used by David Revoy, the art director of Sintel (the third computer-animated film by the Blender Foundation). [19]

Native file format

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. [20] 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. [21]

References

  1. 1 2 MyPaint meetup, attending LGM2010 Archived 2018-11-16 at the Wayback Machine , 2010-05-09, Jon Nordby, Grapikslabor, In Zürich I also meet up with Martin Renold, the creator of MyPaint.
  2. 1 2 About >> Martin Renold's Linkpage Archived 2019-01-09 at the Wayback Machine , MyPaint painting application that I have initially written
  3. 1 2 MyPaint: mixing Python and C Archived 2018-11-16 at the Wayback Machine , Martin Renold is one of the MyPaint maintainers. He created the program in 2004 while studying, - 13th LSM from 7 to 12 July 2012, Libre Software Meeting
  4. ↑ Developer Monologue: Short History of MyPaint Archived 2020-10-27 at the Wayback Machine , 2009-06-18 - Martin Renold's log2
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 4, 2005. Retrieved 2017-09-21.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ↑ "Release 2.0.1". 29 May 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  7. ↑ https://github.com/mypaint/mypaint/releases/tag/v2.0.2-alpha.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. ↑ "Download". mypaint.org/downloads/. Archived from the original on 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2015-11-28.
  9. ↑ "COPYING". GitHub . Archived from the original on 2022-08-10. Retrieved 2016-01-17.
  10. ↑ "Downloads". mypaint.info. MyPaint. Archived from the original on 2020-11-11. Retrieved 2016-01-17.
  11. ↑ "MyPaint - Summary". Gna!. Archived from the original on 2014-03-04. Retrieved 2014-07-03.
  12. ↑ "MyPaint 1.2.0 release note". Archived from the original on 2020-11-08. Retrieved 2016-01-18.
  13. ↑ "MyPaint v2.0.0 Released". Archived from the original on 2020-08-16. Retrieved 2020-02-16.
  14. ↑ brushlib splitoff (moved some code from lib into brushlib), 2008-11-23, First libmypaint commit
  15. ↑ "Latest libmypaint releases". GitHub . Retrieved 2020-02-17.
  16. ↑ "COPYING(from libmypaint)". GitHub . Archived from the original on 2025-04-03. Retrieved 2018-11-16.
  17. ↑ "Brushlib/libmypaint is now a separate module". Archived from the original on 2020-08-08. Retrieved 2015-11-28.
  18. ↑ Wilber (27 April 2018). "GIMP - GIMP 2.10.0 Released". www.gimp.org. Archived from the original on 2019-08-25. Retrieved 2019-08-25.
  19. ↑ Prokoudine, Alexandre (2010-09-30). "Interview with Sintel's art director David Revoy". Libre Arts. Archived from the original on 2025-03-19. Retrieved 2025-03-09.
  20. ↑ Willis, Nathan (2006-07-07). "Debate arises over an open raster graphics format". Linux.com Archive. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
  21. ↑ "Basic usage Tutorial: Saving and exporting your work". MyPaint (official site). 2010. Archived from the original on 2008-05-17. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
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