Pinta (software)


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. Pinta has more features than Microsoft Paint. Compared with open-source image editor GIMP, Pinta is simpler and has fewer features.

Features

Pinta is a bitmap image editor with many features typical of image editing software including drawing tools, image filters and colour adjustment tools. 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.

History and development

Development of Pinta began in February 2010 and was driven by Jonathan Pobst, then working at Novell. In September 2011 Pobst announced that he was no longer interested in developing Pinta. A new group of developers continued the project.
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.
VersionRelease dateMajor changes
0.1February 7, 2010Initial release
0.2March 15, 2010Improved layer and history windows; zoom, paint bucket, color replacer, line, and pan tools; live preview for layer changes; multithreading support for effects and adjustments
0.3May 3, 2010Live preview for adjustments and effects; pixel-precise zoom; gradient, magic wand and text tools; 26 new effects ported from Paint.NET
0.4July 6, 2010Internationalization support; docking windows; OpenRaster support; saving in BMP, ICO and TIFF formats in addition to JPEG and PNG
0.5November 2, 2010Multiple image support; TGA format; palette editing; more languages; bug fixes
0.6January 11, 201153 bug fixes; improvements to the "History" feature stability; rewritten text tool
0.7March 2, 2011Text outline support; more bug fixes
0.8March 31, 2011Bug fixes
1.0April 27, 2011First stable version; 6 bug fixes
1.1November 13, 2011Several improvements and bug fixes, first release with new maintainers
1.2April 22, 2012Individual 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
1.3April 30, 2012Bug fixes
1.4September 27, 2012Magic Wand tool selection modes; new layer blending modes; copy/paste support for the text tool.
1.5May 24, 2014Re-editable text; Mouse cursors now resize based on the active brush size; The Move Selection and Move Selected tools can now rotate the selection using the right mouse button; Added an Invert Selection command; New or redesigned mouse cursors for every tool; Improved OS X integration ; Redesigned Windows installer, which automatically downloads and installs the correct version of GTK# and the.NET Framework if necessary; Improved JPEG Compression Dialog ; The Open File dialog now shows image previews for ORA files, as well as any file formats provided by add-ins
1.6March 1, 2015Re-editable shapes; Union, exclude, xor, and intersection selection modes; Add-in repository; numerous bug fixes