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CinePaint Film Gimp 0.22-1
Aqua GTK2 on Mac (Test build of unfinished GTK2 native Mac port) |
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CinePaint Film Gimp 0.18
GTK1 on Linux
(displaying Kodak Cineon test image) |
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CinePaint Cinebrush 0.1 on
Windows
(in development) |
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CinePaint Glasgow 0.1 on
Windows
(in development) |
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CinePaint News 2008.04.06 by Robin Rowe
- MacIntel CinePaint 0.23 released. This is a native Aqua version
based on GTK+OSX, not X11, not GTK2. Our
first release as a Mac DMG disk image. Easy drag-n-drop installation
or run as is, where is. A vast improvement in CinePaint Mac packaging,
based on a makefile by Remko Tronçon. MacIntel build by
Tom Huffman.
- Sudirikku Mohanjith created a bleeding edge Fedora CinePaint
rpm that I released.
- SpectSoft is hosting
the "All Things Linux" meeting on Wednesday, April
16th, at NAB.
- Creation of HDR
Images in CinePaint (also
in German) article by Hartmut Sbosny.
- Added Google AdSense
advertising to www.CinePaint.org.
- I'm on the April cover
of Linux Format magazine UK, interview about the CinePaint project.
- Bizarrely, here's a troll
on the Freedesktop
CREATE list by the GIMP clique in reaction to my Linux Format
interview. It's been six years since I noticed the forgotten
Film Gimp code branch in GIMP CVS and released it myself. They're
still mad at me. They're still posting hate mail.
- For more news visit Robin's blog at cinepaint.blogspot.com
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Top Reasons to Use CinePaint
- Support for 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit color channels of deep
paint.
- High fidelity image file types such as DPX, OpenEXR and 16-bit
TIFF. These files can't be opened in ordinary 8-bit image applications
(e.g., GIMP) without crushing them.
- High Dynamic Range. HDR images can go brighter than white.
Ordinary images can't be brighter than a white sheet of paper
(0=black, 1.0=white).
- Gallery-quality printing. B&W photographs have only one
color channel and degrade quickly when manipulated as 8-bit images.
CinePaint has higher fidelity and offers a 16-bit printing path
to the print-head using GutenPrint.
- Color Management System. CinePaint uses LittleCMS.
- Flipbook. Movie playback of short sequences of images in
RAM.
- Innovation. CinePaint offers features that go beyond ordinary
painting tools.
- It's used to make feature films at major studios.
- Open Source. With various OSS licenses, because it uses code
from various sources, including GPL, LGPL, BSD, and MPL.
- Free.
- Friendly professional developers. Polite discussion forums.
- Being a CinePaint developer can be a good career move. CinePaint
developers have gotten jobs at companies such as DreamWorks Animation,
Sony Pictures Imageworks, and Apple.
Top Reasons Not to Use CinePaint
- You're content with Adobe
Photoshop, Corel
Painter X, Corel
Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, Krita, IrfanView,
or Seashore.
- No working Windows CinePaint version. Maybe in June.
- CinePaint originated as a rewrite of the GIMP 8-bit engine
in 1998 and still superficially resembles GIMP. However, CinePaint
has implemented new features and reuses code from many projects.
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Linux Distros that Support CinePaint
- 64Studio - Debian-based
audio studio with RT kernel.
- ArtistX - Debian-based
multimedia production studio.
- Debian - CinePaint 0.20-1-1.3
is in Etch (stable). CinePaint was removed from Debian lenny
(testing) because Debian has dropped support for GTK1. CinePaint
GTK2 exists and Debian packaging work is being done by Aedan
Kelly. Experimental debs are here.
- Fedora - Popular
RPM-based distro.
- GrafPup - A sweet desktop
Linux 64mb mini-distro that boots into ramdisk. Has a great help
system and is gawd fast because it runs /usr in RAM. If
you're curious to try CinePaint or need a quick live-cd for a
tradeshow that just works, this is it. We used it in our booth
at SCALE. It even got
the external monitor displays for our laptops right. Can be installed
to disk and mounts Linux and FAT partitions.
- PCLinuxOS
- Digital Photography Edition
- OpenSuse - Popular
RPM-based distro.
- Ubuntu Studio - Debian-based
multimedia creation distro.
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