Pinta is a free, open-source program for drawing and image editing. It combines intuitive tools with powerful features, making it easy to create, enhance, and manipulate images. Whether you"re sketching or retouching photos, Pinta keeps things simple without sacrificing functionality. Compared to Microsoft Paint, Pinta includes more features, such as support for layers and multiple undo levels. While it’s not as powerful as GIMP or professional tools like Adobe Photoshop, it strikes a good balance between simplicity and functionality for everyday image editing.
Draw stuff. Fix photos. Make cool things — super easy with Pinta. Whether you"re editing a picture or just messing around, it’s fun and simple to use.
Some of the main feature benefits of Pinta include:
- Multiple operating system support (Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X).
- Layering (most simple bitmap editors don"t have this capability). This feature is available in programs like Photoshop and GIMP but Pinta’s system is more user-friendly for all levels of users. Layers help separate and group elements of an image for easy editing.
- Full history enabling users to experiment as you can always use the undo feature to easily to revert changes and actions.
- Customizable workspace.
- Multiple language support.
- Add-ins capability ( i.e. can write a custom brush).
- Has over 35 adjustments and effects for editing images.
Pinta 3.1 Beta 1 changelog:
Added
- Implemented a new axonometric grid (View > Canvas Grid... > Show Axonometric Grid) (#1438, #1541)
- Rewrote the canvas widget to improve performance and memory usage issues for zoomed-in images (#1020, #1485)
- Added a new Cells effect (#1589)
- Added a polygon selection mode to the Lasso Select tool (#1725, #1096)
- The "About" dialog now includes links to the issue tracker and discussion forum (#1343)
- When compiling Pinta, the GirCoreSource MSBuild property can be set to easily build Pinta against a local build of gir.core for easy debugging (#1403)
- Keyboard shortcuts are now displayed on all toolbar button tooltips (#1408, #1432)
- Added a right click menu for layers, containing actions that can be applied to the selected layer (#1588)
- The Dithering effect can now use Pinta"s current palette in addition to the effect"s preset color palettes (#1594)
- Random seed values for effects can now be directly controlled, in addition to use the Reseed button (#1592, #1591)
- Support for color picking in SimpleEffectDialog. Useful for add-in developers (#1611)
- The text tool now supports using Ctrl+Backspace to delete words (#1680)
- Added a Windows ARM64 installer (#1699, #1378)
- The selection of an area on the canvas is now being projected and highlighted on the rulers (#1723)
- Added a Radius Percentage parameter to the Twist effect (#1739)
Changed
- Packaging changes
- Updated dependencies to require GTK 4.18+ and libadwaita 1.7+
- Pinta now consistently uses an application ID of com.github.PintaProject.Pinta, which previously had been applied in patches for downstream packages (#1706, #1419)
- Breaking API changes for add-ins will require add-ins to be rebuilt against Pinta 3.1
- Attributes used for effect configuration properties (CaptionAttribute, MaximumValueAttribute, ...) are now in the Pinta.Core assembly and the Pinta.Core namespace (#1665)
- Methods RegisterEffect, UnregisterInstanceOfEffect, RegisterAdjustment, and UnregisterInstanceOfAdjustment in EffectsManager are now generic (#1678)
- Removed use of deprecated Gtk.FontButton (#1421)
- View menu moved from hamburger menu to dedicated button (#1428, #1471)
- Updated the application icon on macOS to better match the platform"s icon style guidelines (#1572)
- Removed the blend mode parameter from the Clouds effect. The replacement workflow is to create a new layer and configure the layer"s blend mode (#1695)
Fixed
- Fixed a bug where cancelling the color picker dialog could still update the palette colors (#1390, #1411)
- The text tool"s "Normal and Outline" mode now draws the outline behind the text to avoid obscuring it (#1423, #1426)
- Improved the handling of negative angle values in the Rotate / Zoom Layer dialog (#1142, #1440)
- Fixed incorrect behavior with transparent colors in the Gradient tool (#1552, #1543)
- Fixed issues where the layer widget did not show the correct selected layer when switching documents (#1602, #1573)
- Fixed toolbar layout issues with displaying the cursor position and selection size (#1429, #1540)
- Fixed a potential hang when switching the active layer in a tool with uncommitted edits (#1463, #1660)
- Fixed a bug in the text tool where Ctrl+A only selected starting from the current line (#1698)
- The icon and window title now appear correctly on KDE Wayland sessions (#1419)
- Fixed bug where the text tool could incorrectly display a default cursor (#1707)
- Fixed drifting when holding Shift while expanding a rectangle selection using the vertical or horizontal handles (#1733)
Download: Pinta 3.1 Beta 1 | ARM64 | ~50.0 MB (Open Source)
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