CinePaint

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CinePaint
Latest release:	0.21 / November 1, 2006
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	Graphics
License:	GNU General Public License
Website:	www.cinepaint.org

CinePaint is a computer program to paint on and retouch bitmap frames of movies. It is a fork of version 1.0.4. of the GIMP. It is free software under the GNU General Public License. Its developers claim it is the most successful open source tool in feature motion picture work today.

Under its old name Film Gimp, CinePaint has so far been used for films such as Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and Stuart Little.

Features that set CinePaint apart from its photo-editing predecessor are the frame manager, the possibility to do onion skinning, and to work with 16-bit and floating point pixels for HDR. CinePaint supports a 16-bit colour managed workflow for photographers and printers, including CIE*Lab and CMYK editing. It supports the Cineon, DPX, and OpenEXR image file formats. HDR creation from bracketed exposures is easy.

It is available for Operating Systems: Linux, BSD, UNIX-like OSes, Mac OS X, SGI IRIX. Currently support for Windows is broken.

Glasgow, a complete new code architecture for CinePaint, will make a new Windows version possible. The Glasgow effort is FLTK based.

[edit] External links

• Official homepage
• 16-bit imaging. From digital camera to print a colour management tutorial
• Basic color management for X
• High Dynamic Range images under Linux