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Friday, April 2, 2010

Open Source painting with MyPaint | Worldlabel Blog

MyPaint is a lightweight, easy-to-use open source painting application that you might not have heard of before. Unlike some of the more mature open source raster-graphics applications (such as Krita or Gimp), MyPaint doesn’t try to do everything: it’s not a photo editor, it doesn’t bother with paths, geometric shapes, text manipulation, or fancy masking options. Instead, it focuses on one and only one use: painting.

By Nathan Willis

“MyPaint’s default interface, which make the canvas prominent and takes up as little space as possible for the tools.  You can click on a new brush or a color from the palette with the pen stylus.”

MyPaint is built around use with pressure-sensitive graphics tablets, and puts natural-media-simulation first. There is only one “tool” per se, the paintbrush with which you draw directly onto the image. However, you can choose from dozens of different profiles with which to use that brush, simulating everything from charcoal to pencil, to ink to watercolor. Each has a different behavior, including the way it responds to pressure, speed, changes in direction, and interacting with pixels already on the canvas.

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http://blog.worldlabel.com/2010/unleash-your-inner-old-master-with-mypaint-open-source.html

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