MyPaint is a

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for

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. It is available for

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, and

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History

MyPaint versions up to 1.00 and bug/issue tracking were hosted by

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. MyPaint uses

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s from

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and, since 1.2.0, uses GTK 3. 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.

Features

Among MyPaint's capabilities are: * Pressure-sensitive

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support * Dynamic brush library, standalone for integration into third-party applications * Layer management * Simple interface *

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masking color wheel * "Unlimited" canvas not requiring predetermination of image size * Symmetry Modes * Python 3 support * Integrated bug reporting * Supports graphics tablets made by Wacom, and similar devices

libmypaint

MyPaint has a custom procedural brush engine optimized for use with pressure-sensitive

s. In later MyPaint versions, the engine was broken out into the separately maintained ''libmypaint''

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to make it easier to integrate into other applications. MyPaint's brush library is available as a

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plugin, and also

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has support for MyPaint brushes by default.

Media attention

MyPaint was used by David Revoy, the art director of ''

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'' (the third computer-animated film by the

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Native file format

The

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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. As a result, a comprehensive graphics design format,

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, was developed based on the Open Document format. MyPaint uses Open Raster as its default format, but also supports saving images to PNG or

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References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mypaint 2005 software Free raster graphics editors Free software programmed in C++ Free software programmed in Python Graphics software that uses GTK Raster graphics editors for Linux