MyPaint

MyPaint versions up to 1.00 and bug/issue tracking were hosted by Gna!.{{cite web|url=http://gna.org/projects/mypaint/|title=MyPaint - Summary|publisher=Gna!|accessdate=2014-07-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304121220/http://gna.org/projects/mypaint/|archive-date=2014-03-04|url-status=dead}}

MyPaint uses graphical control elements from GTK and, since 1.2.0, uses GTK 3.{{cite web |url=http://mypaint.org/blog/2016/01/15/mypaint-1.2.0-released/ |title=MyPaint 1.2.0 release note}}

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.{{Cite web|url=http://mypaint.org/blog/2020/02/16/MyPaint-2.0.0-release/|title=MyPaint v2.0.0 Released}}

Among MyPaint's capabilities are:

• Pressure-sensitive graphics tablet support{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}
• Dynamic brush library, standalone for integration into third-party applications{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}
• Layer management
• Simple interface
• Gamut 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

{{Infobox software

| name = libmypaint

| collapsible =

| author = Martin Renold

| developer = [https://github.com/mypaint/libmypaint/graphs/contributors libmypaint Contributors]

| released = {{Start date and age|2008|11|23}}[https://github.com/mypaint/libmypaint/commit/021ae77e9c36fd1297b55bc4d6edfc00c1a741f6 brushlib splitoff (moved some code from lib into brushlib)], 2008-11-23, First libmypaint commit

| discontinued =

| latest release version = 1.6.1

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2020|05|12}}{{cite web|title=Latest libmypaint releases|website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/mypaint/libmypaint/releases/latest|access-date=2020-02-17}}

| latest preview version =

| latest preview date = {{Start date and age|2020|02|08}}{{r|LIBMPREL}}

| repo = {{URL|https://github.com/mypaint/libmypaint}}

| programming language = C

| operating system = Linux, macOS, Windows

| platform =

| genre = Brush library

| license = ISC{{cite web|title=COPYING(from libmypaint)|website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/mypaint/libmypaint/blob/master/COPYING|accessdate=2018-11-16}}

| website = {{URL|mypaint.org}}

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MyPaint has a custom procedural brush engine optimized for use with pressure-sensitive graphics tablets. In later MyPaint versions, the engine was broken out into the separately maintained libmypaint library to make it easier to integrate into other applications.{{cite web|url=http://mypaint.org/blog/2014/04/29/brushlib-libmypaint-is-now-a-separate-module/|title= Brushlib/libmypaint is now a separate module|accessdate=2015-11-28}}

MyPaint's brush library is available as a Krita plugin, and also GIMP has support for MyPaint brushes by default.{{cite news|url=https://www.gimp.org/news/2018/04/27/gimp-2-10-0-released/|title=GIMP - GIMP 2.10.0 Released|last=Wilber|website=www.gimp.org|date=27 April 2018|language=en|access-date=2019-08-25}}

MyPaint was used by David Revoy, the art director of Sintel (the third computer-animated film by the Blender Foundation).{{cite web|url=https://librearts.org/2010/09/interview-with-sintel-art-director-david-revoy/|title=Interview with Sintel's art director David Revoy|last=Prokoudine|first=Alexandre|publisher=Libre Arts|date=2010-09-30|accessdate=2025-03-09}}

The Adobe 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.linux.com/news/debate-arises-over-open-raster-graphics-format/|title=Debate arises over an open raster graphics format|last=Willis|first=Nathan|publisher=Linux.com Archive|date=2006-07-07|accessdate=2013-03-25}} As a result, a comprehensive graphics design format, OpenRaster, was developed based on the Open Document format. MyPaint uses Open Raster as its default format, but also supports saving images to PNG or JPEG.{{cite web|url=http://mypaint.intilinux.com/?page_id=3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517111220/http://mypaint.intilinux.com/?page_id=3|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-05-17|title=Basic usage Tutorial: Saving and exporting your work|publisher=MyPaint (official site)|date=2010|accessdate=2013-03-25}}

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