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Just a quick note that Pinta 0.5 has been released today, with a few big features like multiple images support, fun new brushes, and clone stamp. Full release notes are available here: http://pinta-project.com/release/0.5

If there's one thing I've learned in designing GUI's and websites is you can't please everyone. One person's favorite part is another's "worst idea ever". Same goes for Pinta . Some people want to be able to move the various widget pads away from their canvas. Others want them to always be visible and easy to reach. For Pinta 0.4, we're going to try to please as many people as possible. To do that, we've brought in MonoDevelop 's incredibly awesome docking library. This allows you to resize, move, close, float, and autohide pads. Here's the default: Here's an example of a customized layout: Hopefully this will please 90% of our users! Many thanks to the MonoDevelop team for such as awesome (and small!) library!

Twenty inches of rain couldn't stop the release of Pinta 0.3 . This is a great release, as it brings us pretty close to feature parity with Paint.NET. I think the most important new feature is live preview, especially as this release adds 25 new effects to play with. It also adds 3 new tools (gradient, text, magic wand select) and has several visual improvements to make image editing / painting better. I've posted packages/installers for SUSE/Mac/Windows/Zip, and the excellent Debian guys should have the Ubuntu PPA updated shortly. Check out the full release notes for Pinta 0.3 ! Thanks to everyone who made this release possible!

It's been a wet weekend here in Tennessee. On Saturday, my town got an estimated 12-15" of rain in about 12 hours. Obviously, no place is designed to handle that much rain that quickly. Then it repeated again today, causing widespread flooding throughout the entire Middle Tennessee area. Any kind of previous record for rainfall or rivers heights have been demolished. I think about the only thing they've shown on national news is this video of a portable classroom cruising down the interstate. (Note this is I-24, a 4-lane national highway.) That was yesterday, things got a lot worse today, as the water made it to the streams and rivers, which then overflowed their boundaries. It's impossible to capture in a few pictures how widespread this is. Everything in about a 50 mile radius is flooded and shut down. They actually imposed a curfew where I live, so I'm not allowed to leave my house, not that I could probably get anywhere with most major roads closed. My ...

As people may or may not be aware, even though I work for Novell, Pinta is not sponsored by Novell. It is a project I do purely in my free time. Since it's getting kinda popular, I thought it'd be nice to earn some money with it so I can dedicate more time to it. Unfortunately, society has decided that creative works (software, music, movies, tv) aren't worth paying money for. So far, I think the only successful business model for open source software is to have a browser and sell your homepage to Google or Yahoo. I thought about adding a browser to Pinta, but it was hard to justify as enhancing the user experience. Advertising is the only other legitimate option, but I was reluctant to degrade the GUI by placing ads in it. However I've come up with a brilliant and creative idea that adds advertising in a fun way that I think users will enjoy. I am still working out the deals with advertisers, but the plan is to add sponsored effects. Basically, we've come up...

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 b...

After Comcast's year-long advertising blitz on how their customers were safe from the analog->digital TV transition, I got a nice letter in the mail today informing me that Comcast is going, *gasp*, all digital. All I need to be ready for the transition is a digital converter box for every television, which they will gladly rent me! Maybe the government will offer vouchers for them. ;)