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CinePaint
Stable release
0.25 / November 6, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-11-06)[1]
Repository
Operating systemUnix-like
TypeGraphics
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websitewww.cinepaint.org
cinepaint on Fedora
CinePaint on Fedora 14

CinePaint is an open source computer program for painting and retouching bitmap frames of films. It is a fork of version 1.0.4 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). It is likely the most successful open source tool in feature motion picture work today.[2] It is free software under the GNU General Public License.

Under its former name Film Gimp, CinePaint was used for films such as Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, The Last Samurai and Stuart Little[3].

Features that set CinePaint apart from its photo-editing predecessor include the frame manager, onion skinning, and the ability to work with 16-bit and floating point pixels for high dynamic range imaging (HDR). CinePaint supports a 16-bit color managed workflow for photographers and printers, including CIE*Lab and CMYK editing. It supports the Cineon, DPX, and OpenEXR image file formats. HDR creation from bracketed exposures is easy.

CinePaint is currently available for Unix-like OSes including Mac OS X and IRIX.

Glasgow, a completely new code architecture being used for CinePaint, is expected to make a new Windows version possible and is currently under production. The Glasgow effort is FLTK based.[4]

Main features

CinePaint is a professional open-source raster graphics editor, not a video editor. Per-channel color engine core: 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit. The image formats it supports include BMP, CIN, DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, OpenEXR, PNG, TIFF, and XCF. Examples of the software's application in the movie industry include Elf, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Duplex, The Last Samurai, Showtime, Blue Crush, 2 Fast 2 Furious, the Harry Potter series, Cats & Dogs, Dr. Dolittle 2, Little Nicky, The Grinch, The 6th Day, Stuart Little, Planet of the Apes, Stuart Little 2, and Spider-Man[5].

The program is available on Linux, OS X, FreeBSD and NetBSD. Its main proprietary competitor is Adobe Photoshop.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.cinepaint.org/
  2. ^ Robin Rowe (2005-02-17). "The Linux Motion Picture Pipeline". LinuxMovies.org. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
  3. ^ CinePaint home page
  4. ^ CinePaint Documentation: Why Migrate from GTK to FLTK, Retrieved on March 10, 2008
  5. ^ CinePaint home page