Original author(s) | Jonathan Pobst |
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Initial release | February 7, 2010 |
Stable release | 2.1.2
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Written in | C# ( GTK#) |
Operating system | Linux, Mac OS X, Windows |
Platform | Mono/ GNOME |
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Available in | Multilingual (55 languages) |
Type | Raster graphics editor |
License | MIT |
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pinta-project |
Pinta is an open-source, cross-platform bitmap image drawing and editing program inspired by Paint.NET, a similar image editing program which is limited to Microsoft Windows. [3] Pinta has more features than Microsoft Paint. Compared with open-source image editor GIMP, Pinta is simpler and has fewer features. [4]
Pinta is a bitmap image editor with many features typical of image editing software including drawing tools, image filters and colour adjustment tools. [4] The focus on usability is reflected in several of the main features of the program:
Unlike some simple image editing software, Pinta also features support for image layers. [5]
Development of Pinta began in February 2010 and was driven by Jonathan Pobst, then working at Novell. [6] [7] The first stable release was in April 2011. [5] In September 2011 Pobst announced that he was no longer interested in developing Pinta. [8] A new group of developers continued the project. [4] [9] Version 1.6 brought improved shape tools and union, exclude, xor, and intersection modes. [10] Version 1.7 was the final release on GTK2. [11]
Pinta is written in C# and uses the GTK+ toolkit and the cairo library. The code adjustment and effect filters, originally came from Paint.NET but otherwise the project is original code. [7]