

Individual layers can now be rotated arbitrarily tools have specific mouse cursors improving gradient tool image autocrop added image preview to the images pad bug fixes Several improvements and bug fixes, first release with new maintainers Multiple image support TGA format palette editing more languages bug fixesĥ3 bug fixes improvements to the "History" feature stability rewritten text toolįirst stable version 6 bug fixes Internationalization support docking windows OpenRaster support saving in BMP, ICO and TIFF formats in addition to JPEG and PNG Live preview for adjustments and effects pixel-precise zoom gradient, magic wand and text tools 26 new effects ported from Paint.NET Improved layer and history windows zoom, paint bucket, color replacer, line, and pan tools live preview for layer changes multithreading support for effects and adjustments The code adjustment and effect filters, originally came from Paint.NET but otherwise the project is original code. Pinta is written in C# and uses the GTK+ toolkit and the cairo library. A new group of developers continued the project. In September 2011 Pobst announced that he was no longer interested in developing Pinta. History and development ĭevelopment of Pinta began in February 2010 and was driven by Jonathan Pobst, then working at Novell. Unlike some simple image editing software, Pinta also features support for image layers. Flexible toolbar arrangement, including floating as windows or docking around the image edge.The focus on usability is reflected in several of the main features of the program:

#Pinta painting software
Pinta is a bitmap image editor with many features typical of image editing software including drawing tools, image filters and colour adjustment tools. Compared with open-source image editor GIMP, Pinta is simpler and has fewer features. Pinta has more features than Microsoft Paint. 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.
