MyPaint is a free software

Free software

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

 graphics application

Raster graphics editor

A raster graphics editor is a computer program that allows users to paint and edit pictures interactively on the computer screen and save them in one of many popular “bitmap” or “raster” formats such as JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF....

 for digital painters

Digital painting

Digital painting is an emerging art form in which traditional painting techniques such as watercolor, oils, impasto, etc. are applied using digital tools by means of a computer, a digitizing tablet and stylus, and software. Traditional painting is painting with a physical medium as opposed to a...

, similar to Corel Painter

Corel Painter

Corel Painter is a raster-based digital art application created to simulate as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is intended to be used in real-time by professional digital artists as a functional creative...

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History

The project has been under development since before August 11, 2004 (date of revision 87 in SVN)

• Version 0.1 was released March 12, 2005
• Version 0.4 was released November 19, 2005
• Version 0.5.0 was released July 9, 2007
• Version 0.6.0 was released January 26, 2009
• Version 0.7.0 was released June 7, 2009
• Version 0.8.0 was released January 29, 2010
• Version 0.8.2 was released March 6, 2010
• Version 0.9.1 was released March 5, 2011
• The latest version, 1.0.0, was released November 22, 2011

Features

Among MyPaint's capabilities are:

• Supports pressure sensitive graphics tablets
  Graphics tablet
  A graphics tablet is a computer input device that enables a user to hand-draw images and graphics, similar to the way a person draws images with a pencil and paper. These tablets may also be used to capture data or handwritten signatures...
  
  
• Extensive brush creation and configuration options
• Unlimited canvas size
• Layer management
• Most basic drawing functions have a keyboard shortcut
• Graphical interface may be hidden for a lightroom style view

Media attention

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

Sintel

Sintel is a short computer animated film by the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation. The name comes from the Dutch word sintel, which can mean cinder or ember, as confirmed by Ton Roosendaal in a blog comment: " “Sintel” is [a] piece of glowing coal or metal...

 (the third film project in computer graphics by the Blender Foundation

Blender Foundation

The Blender Foundation is a non-profit organization responsible for the development of Blender, an open source program for three-dimensional modeling....

, code-named Project Durian

Sintel

Sintel is a short computer animated film by the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation. The name comes from the Dutch word sintel, which can mean cinder or ember, as confirmed by Ton Roosendaal in a blog comment: " “Sintel” is [a] piece of glowing coal or metal...

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Saving files format

Since 2006, the Adobe PSD format changes its license; it was just permitted to develop PSD format in order to interact with Adobe software. Therefore a complete graphic design format, Open Raster, was developed based on the Open Document format. Mypaint uses Open Raster as its default format, but also supports saving images to PNG or JPG.

See also

• Corel Painter
  Corel Painter
  Corel Painter is a raster-based digital art application created to simulate as accurately as possible the appearance and behavior of traditional media associated with drawing, painting, and printmaking. It is intended to be used in real-time by professional digital artists as a functional creative...
  
  
• Gimp
  GIMP
  GIMP is a free software raster graphics editor. It is primarily employed as an image retouching and editing tool and is freely available in versions tailored for most popular operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, and Linux.In addition to detailed image retouching and...
  
  
• Pencil (software)
  Pencil (software)
  There are two software products named Pencil, that are not related to each other. This article is about the graphical animation software.# A 2D graphical animation software that runs on Mac, Windows, Linux and BSD...
  
  
• Krita
  Krita
  Krita is the digital painting and illustration software included based on the KDE Platform and Calligra Suite libraries. Designed as a digital painting and illustration suite, Krita is free software and distributed under GNU General Public License...