Pinta (software)

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Pinta
Original author(s) Jonathan Pobst
Developer(s)
  • Cameron White
  • Robert Nordan
  • Olivier Dufour [1]
Initial releaseFebruary 7, 2010;15 years ago (2010-02-07)
Stable release
3.0 [2]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 12 April 2025
Repository
Written in C# (GTK#)
Operating system Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Platform Mono/GNOME
Size
  • Windows: 2.5 MB
  • Ubuntu: 1.4 MB
  • macOS: 1.6 MB
Available inMultilingual (55 languages)
Type Raster graphics editor
License MIT
Website pinta-project.com

Pinta is an open-source, cross-platform bitmap image drawing and editing program inspired by Paint.NET, a similar image editing program which is limited to Microsoft Windows. [3] Pinta has more features than Microsoft Paint. Compared with open-source image editor GIMP, Pinta is simpler and has fewer features. [4]

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Features

Pinta is a bitmap image editor with many features typical of image editing software including drawing tools, image filters and colour adjustment tools. [4] The focus on usability is reflected in several of the main features of the program:

Unlike some simple image editing software, Pinta also features support for image layers. [5]

History and development

Development of Pinta began in February 2010 and was driven by Jonathan Pobst, then working at Novell. [6] [7] The first stable release was in April 2011. [5] In September 2011 Pobst announced that he was no longer interested in developing Pinta. [8] A new group of developers continued the project. [4] [9] Version 1.6 brought improved shape tools and union, exclude, xor, and intersection modes. [10] Version 1.7 was the final release on GTK2. [11] Version 2.0 added a status bar widget, an improved text tool, and various quality-of-life improvements alongside the port to GTK3 which brought various improvements to Wayland support, performance improvements, and better support for HiDPI displays. [12] On April 12, 2025, Pinta 3.0 was released, which brought improvements to the color picker dialog, added various new filters, restored support for add-ins, and other various quality-of-life improvements along with the port to GTK4 and Libadwaita. [13]

Pinta is written in C# and uses the GTK+ toolkit and the cairo library. The code adjustment and effect filters, originally came from Paint.NET but otherwise the project is original code. [7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Pinta team. "Contact - Pinta". Archived from the original on 7 August 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  2. ↑ . 12 April 2025 https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta/releases/tag/3.0 . Retrieved 12 April 2025.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ Purdy, Kevin (9 February 2010). "Pinta Brings Paint.NET's Just-Enough Image Editing to Every Computer". Lifehacker . Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  4. 1 2 3 Germain, Jack M. (3 July 2012). "Image Editing Is a Snap With Pinta". LinuxInsider. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  5. 1 2 3 The H Open. "Version 1.0 of Pinta Paint.NET clone released" . Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  6. ↑ Pobst, Jonathan (7 February 2010). "Introducing Pinta" . Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  7. 1 2 Holwerda, Thom (8 February 2010). "Introducing Pinta, a Gtk+ Clone of Paint.NET". OSNews . Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  8. ↑ Sneddon, Joey (6 September 2011). "Development Ceases On Open Source Graphics App 'Pinta'". OMG! Ubuntu! . Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  9. ↑ Sneddon, Joey (12 September 2011). "Pinta Revived, New Release Planned". OMG! Ubuntu! . Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  10. ↑ "Release Notes 1.6 - Pinta". www.pinta-project.com. Retrieved 2024-04-09.
  11. ↑ "Release Notes 1.7.1 - Pinta". www.pinta-project.com. Retrieved 2024-04-09.
  12. ↑ Nestor, Marius (2022-01-01). "Pinta 2.0 Open-Source Paint Program Is Out Now as a Major Update, Ported to GTK 3". 9to5Linux. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
  13. ↑ "Release Notes - Pinta: Painting Made Simple". Pinta. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
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