Pinta (software)

Pinta

Simple Painting for Gtk.
Original author(s) Jonathan Pobst
Developer(s)
  • Cameron White
  • Robert Nordan
  • Olivier Dufour[1]
Initial release February 7, 2010
Stable release 1.6 / March 1, 2015
Development status Active
Written in C# (GTK#)
Operating system Linux, Mac OS X, Windows
Platform Mono/GNOME
Size
  • Windows: 2.5 MB
  • Ubuntu: 1.4 MB
  • Mac OS X: 1.6 MB
Available in Multilingual (55 languages)
Type Raster graphics editor
License MIT X11
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.[2] Pinta has more features than Microsoft Paint but is simpler and has fewer features than open-source image editor GIMP.[3]

Features

Pinta is a bitmap image editor with many features typical of image editing software including drawing tools, image filters and colour adjustment tools.[3] 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.[4]

History and development

Development of Pinta began in February 2010 and was driven by Jonathan Pobst, then working at Novell.[5][6] In September 2011 Pobst announced that he was no longer interested in developing Pinta.[7] A new group of developers continued the project.[3][8]

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.[6] Pinta is under active development.

Version Release date Major changes
0.1 February 7, 2010 Initial release
0.2 March 15, 2010 Improved layer and history windows; zoom, paint bucket, color replacer, line, and pan tools; live preview for layer changes; multithreading support for effects and adjustments
0.3 May 3, 2010 Live preview for adjustments and effects; pixel-precise zoom; gradient, magic wand and text tools; 26 new effects ported from Paint.NET
0.4 July 6, 2010 Internationalization support; docking windows; OpenRaster support; saving in BMP, ICO and TIFF formats in addition to JPEG and PNG
0.5 November 2, 2010 Multiple image support; TGA format; palette editing; more languages; bug fixes
0.6 January 11, 2011 53 bug fixes; improvements to the "History" feature stability; rewritten text tool
0.7 March 2, 2011 Text outline support; more bug fixes
0.8 March 31, 2011 Bug fixes
1.0 April 27, 2011 First stable version;[4][9] 6 bug fixes
1.1 November 13, 2011 Several improvements and bug fixes, first release with new maintainers[10]
1.2 April 22, 2012 Individual layers can now be rotated arbitrarily; tools have specific mouse cursors; improving gradient tool; image autocrop; added image preview to the images pad; bug fixes[11]
1.3 April 30, 2012 Bug fixes[12]
1.4 September 27, 2012 Magic Wand tool selection modes; new layer blending modes; copy/paste support for the text tool.[13]
1.5 May 24, 2014 Re-editable text; Mouse cursors now resize based on the active brush size; The Move Selection and Move Selected tools can now rotate the selection using the right mouse button; Added an Invert Selection command; New or redesigned mouse cursors for every tool; Improved OSX integration (file associations and improved dock integration); Redesigned Windows installer, which automatically downloads and installs the correct version of GTK# and the .NET Framework if necessary; Improved JPEG Compression Dialog (remembers previous settings and has the OK button as the default control); The Open File dialog now shows image previews for ORA files, as well as any file formats provided by add-ins [14]
1.6 March 1, 2015 Re-editable shapes; Union, exclude, xor, and intersection selection modes; Add-in repository; numerous bug fixes [15]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Pinta team. "Contact - Pinta". Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  2. ↑ Purdy, Kevin (9 February 2010). "Pinta Brings Paint.NET's Just-Enough Image Editing to Every Computer". Lifehacker. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Germain, Jack M. (3 July 2012). "Image Editing Is a Snap With Pinta". LinuxInsider. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 The H Open. "Version 1.0 of Pinta Paint.NET clone released". Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  5. ↑ Pobst, Jonathan (7 February 2010). "Introducing Pinta". Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Holwerda, Thom (8 February 2010). "Introducing Pinta, a Gtk+ Clone of Paint.NET". OSNews. Retrieved 1 May 2012.
  7. ↑ Sneddon, Joey (6 September 2011). "Development Ceases On Open Source Graphics App 'Pinta'". OMG! Ubuntu!. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  8. ↑ Sneddon, Joey (12 September 2011). "Pinta Revived, New Release Planned". OMG! Ubuntu!. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
  9. ↑ Pobst, Jonathan. "Pinta 1.0 Released". Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  10. ↑ Morlock, Johnathan. "Release Notes 1.1". Retrieved 16 August 2012.
  11. ↑ Morlock, Johnathan. "Release Notes 1.2". Retrieved 16 August 2012.
  12. ↑ Morlock, Johnathan. "Release Notes 1.3". Retrieved 16 August 2012.
  13. ↑ Morlock, Johnathan. "Release Notes 1.4". Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  14. ↑ White, Cameron. "Release Notes 1.5". Retrieved 26 May 2014.
  15. ↑ White, Cameron. "Release Notes 1.6". Retrieved 2 March 2015.

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