Pinta: Nil Dot Duo

I am extremely excited to announce the release of Pinta 0.2!

Pinta 0.2 is a big step towards general feature parity with PDN, by adding great new features like:

- 5 new tools (Paint Bucket, Recolor, Line, Zoom, Pan)
- 5 new adjustments (Levels, Curves, Brightness/Contrast, Hue/Saturation, Posterize)
- 5 new effects (Ink Sketch, Oil Painting, Pencil Sketch, Gaussian Blur, Glow)
- Enhanced layer and history pads
- Multithreaded adjustments/effects rendering
- Basic OS X integration
- and more!

Full release notes (with pictures!) are available here.

Packages are available here, and likely more will be contributed.

The most exciting part about this release is that it isn't all my work. Pinta has attracted several great contributors who are helping it quickly move towards maturity. Without their awesome work, Pinta would be releasing today with only about half of these new features!

With 0.2 out the door, now I can turn to the merge requests already waiting to make 0.3 an even better release!

Comments

Jens Fursund said…
This looks really interesting, and you seem to be moving quite fast. Are you building GPU acceleration into this from the beginning?
March 15, 2010 at 1:17 AM
Unknown said…
on next release, you will be able to write "dog is watching" with the text tool ;-)
March 15, 2010 at 3:42 AM
Jonathan Pobst said…
@dlai:

No, there is currently no GPU acceleration in Pinta. I do not know if an open, cross-platform solution for doing work on the GPU currently exists.
March 15, 2010 at 9:44 AM
Anonymous said…
Might I suggest OpenTK (bindings to OpenCL)?

http://www.opentk.com
March 15, 2010 at 3:02 PM
Ben Daniel said…
Aww how cute does your dog look in that glow example. Heez/sheez show adorable, yes heez/sheez iz!! lol

Also, great work on those new features! Please keep them coming! :D
March 15, 2010 at 6:02 PM
trh said…
Really cool, waiting for the text tool ;)
March 16, 2010 at 12:27 AM
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