MyPaint

Hi, my name Sean and I’ve taken over the maintenance and design of the MyPaint website. Don’t worry everything is where it used to be, it just looks better now. We decided that since it was summer and MyPaint  is headed for some exiting times we’d spice things up. Thank you.

Okay, this is so that everyone can just stop asking why MyPaint, etc. Around 2004 I bought myself a wacom tablet, having checked that it should work with GIMP on Linux. It did work. With minor bugs and glitches. For example, GIMP would sometimes drop a stroke when scribbling too fast. I also thought I could [...]

This is not such a big restructuring release as 0.6.0 was, but it contains many incremental improvements and bugfixes. This release adds a color history, support for eliptical dabs, new brushes and background patterns.  Other new functions (eg.  merging layers) have been added.  There were many bugfixes and usability tweaks. Download and Changelog

Finally, MyPaint development has gone stable again. After rewriting the surface code (tiled memory, 16bit precision, alpha channel) and changing the build system (automake to SCons) and getting rid of GObject C code (the new C++ extensions are a lot ... [More] cleaner, STL-free, designed to be swig’able and don’t depend on GTK any more), everything is finally [...] [Less]

GEGL (the upcoming GIMP backend) uses linear-light floating point as the main pixel format. Krita allows several colorspaces and color management through LittleCMS. What about MyPaint? Version 0.5.x uses 8bit sRGB without any alpha channel. Time for ... [More] a change. I have settled now with a 16bit integer for each channel, permultiplied alpha, no linear light (gamma [...] [Less]

The old forum has been locked for quite a while now because of spam problems. Let’s wish the new forum better luck. Personally I’m still not a big forum fan, so you will reach me faster via email (mailinglist or private). For bugs you can also start using the Gna Bugtracker if you prefer.

Here we are, the new MyPaint site is online and I hope you’ll enjoy it. I decided to help the project creating at least a nice looking website and trying to have more people focus their attention to this wonderful project, so please tell me if there’s anything I can get better about it, maybe in [...]