Resources and tutorials for Webmasters
Resources and tutorials for Webmasters

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

CinePaint : A deep paint image retouching tool

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.

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