CinePaint

[antihero]

Hi everyone

Does anyone know about the cinePaint Programm?

I stumbled upon their website recently (cinepaint.sourceforge.net (http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net/)). Well the website looks crappy but i wondered if someone allready messed around with this programm.
Seems like one of the first painting programms for linux (runs on windows as well, i haven't seen a mac version)... probably.

Any thoughts out there?

antihero

[egfx]

ya I heard it was about the only program that could paint in 8 bits but i think its win95 only.

[antihero]

hehe...

click (http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net/press/screenshots.html)
Ok, there is a mac version as well.
@egfx: if you check the screenshots, you'll see that it runs under win2000 (therefore possibly winXP as well).

Other thoughts?

[roger]

CinePaint is a fork of The Gimp (http://www.gimp.org) oriented to film editing, the advantages it has over The Gimp is basically that it allows 16bit image editing while gimp only supports 8 bit.

The problem is that its interface is the one in the old gimp which is pretty bad imho, if you don't need 16 bit editing you should probably wait until The Gimp 2.0 is released soon because it has a much better interface. However, for painting purposes I think none of them can rival Painter or Photoshop yet, the brushes ain't that good. With a good set of brushes and some tweaking I think the gimp 2 would be pretty good actually.

Last but not least, they're free. :)

[antihero]

I tried the GIMP once in the past but as you said, no rival when it comes to painting or professional (whatever that means) picture editing.

I would really appreciate a free painting tool... :/

Thanks roger, i guess that cleared up things.

[andyf]

I agree with the sentiments above. You just gotta have photoshop or painter, but if you want free, try Satori PhotoXL. It's an odd hybrid of vector and bitmap editing and it has pretty robust brushes for a free program.