Pinta is an
open-source
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...
,
cross-platform bitmap image drawing and editing program inspired by
Paint.NET, a similar image editing program which is limited to
Microsoft Windows
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. Pinta has more features than
Microsoft Paint. Compared with open-source image editor
GIMP
GIMP ( ; GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation (retouching) and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized task ...
, Pinta is simpler and has fewer features.
Features
Pinta is a bitmap image editor with many features typical of image editing software including drawing tools, image filters and colour adjustment tools.
The focus on usability is reflected in several of the main features of the program:
* Unlimited
undo
Undo is an interaction technique which is implemented in many computer programs. It erases the last change done to the document, reverting it to an older state. In some more advanced programs, such as graphic processing, undo will negate the las ...
history.
* Multiple
language support.
* Flexible
toolbar arrangement, including floating as
windows or docking around the image edge.
Unlike some simple image editing software, Pinta also features support for
image layers.
History and development
Development of Pinta began in February 2010 and was driven by Jonathan Pobst, then working at
Novell
Novell, Inc. was an American software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah, that existed from 1980 until 2014. Its most significant product was the multi-platform network operating system known as Novell NetWare.
Under the lead ...
.
In September 2011 Pobst announced that he was no longer interested in developing Pinta. A new group of developers continued the project.
Pinta is written in
C# and uses the
GTK+
GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both free and proprie ...
toolkit and the
cairo library. The code adjustment and effect filters, originally came from
Paint.NET but otherwise the project is original code.
See also
*
Comparison of raster graphics editors
*
KolourPaint
*
Krita
*
MyPaint
References
External links
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