Original author(s) | Developer(s) MyPaint Contributors | |
 | ||
Initial release March 12, 2005; 12 years ago (2005-03-12) Stable release 1.2.1 / January 21, 2017; 56 days ago (2017-01-21) Preview release 1.2.0-beta.3 / November 21, 2015; 15 months ago (2015-11-21) Repository github.com/mypaint/mypaint | ||
MyPaint is a free and open-source raster graphics editor for digital painters with a focus on painting rather than image manipulation or post processing. MyPaint is available for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux. It is in some ways similar to Corel Painter.
Contents
History
MyPaint versions up to 1.00 and bug/issue tracking are hosted by Gna!.
MyPaint uses graphical control elements from GTK+ and, since 1.2.0, uses GTK+ 3.
Features
Among MyPaint's capabilities are:
libmypaint
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.
MyPaint's brush library is available as a Krita plugin, and also the GIMP developers are discussing integrating libmypaint into GIMP.
Media attention
MyPaint was used by David Revoy, the art director of Sintel (the third computer-animated film by the Blender Foundation).
Native file format
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. 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.