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GNU Paint

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Developer(s)
  
Andy Tai

Operating system
  
Linux

Written in
  
C

Available in
  
English

GNU Paint

Stable release
  
0.3.3 / September 10, 2007; 9 years ago (2007-09-10)

Repository
  
git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gpaint.git

GNU Paint, otherwise known as gpaint, is a free and open-source raster graphics editor similar to Microsoft Paint. It is free software licensed under the terms of GNU General Public License version 3 and is part of the GNU Project.

Overview

Features of gpaint include:

  • Drawing tools such as ovals, freehand, polygon and text, with fill or shadow for polygons and closed freehand shapes.
  • Cut and paste by selecting irregular regions or polygons.
  • Preliminary print support using gnome-print.
  • Modern, ease-to-use user interface with tool and color palettes.
  • Multiple-image editing in a single instance of the program.
  • All the image processing features present in xpaint.
  • No facility to crop images
  • No ability to make rectangular selections

    • References

    GNU Paint Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA