CinePaint : A deep paint image retouching tool
November 6th, 2009 Posted in Download, Graphic Design, Images, Open Source, Tools
CinePaint is a deep paint application that edits EXR, DPX, 16-bit TIFF, JPEG, PNG and many other types of image files. CinePaint is available as a native application for Linux, Mac OS X, and BSD. There’s currently no Windows version.
- 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.
