Pinta

Pinta is an image editing, drawing, and painting application with a simple yet powerful interface. It offers drawing tools such as a freehand brush, rectangles, ellipses, and lines. It includes more than 35 effects for images and supports unlimited layers for organizing creative projects.

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• Drawing tools. Pinta provides brushes, pencils, geometric shapes, and selection tools for creating illustrations from scratch or modifying existing images. Basic tools include the paint bucket, color picker, and zoom options.
• Layer support. Build complex compositions using independent layers. Each layer can be edited separately, which allows non-destructive adjustments and greater control over the final design.
• Unlimited history. Every action performed during editing is recorded, so you can undo or redo changes without restrictions. The detailed history panel shows each modification in chronological order.
• Effects and adjustments. Includes artistic filters such as pencil sketch, oil painting, and distortions, along with color correction tools. Manual adjustments let you change brightness, contrast, RGB balance, and tone curves.
• Selection tools. Offers rectangle select, ellipse select, magic wand, and freehand lasso for isolating specific areas. Selections can be copied, moved, or edited independently of the rest of the image.
• Text tool. Add text with customizable fonts and edit it until you finalize it. Supports adjustments to text size, color, and alignment.
• Gradients and fills. Apply linear or radial color transitions with control over the start and end points. Solid fills cover areas with flat colors, while patterns can be used for repeating textures.
• Photo correction. Dedicated photo retouching tools include red-eye removal, noise reduction, and portrait softening. Sharpen and blur filters let you adjust the clarity of the image.
• Tablet support. Compatible with input devices that detect pen pressure, which is ideal for digital illustration. Pressure sensitivity directly affects the thickness and opacity of strokes.
• File formats. Open and save images in PNG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, and other formats, as well as OpenRaster (ORA) to preserve layers. Saving options include quality and compression settings for each format.

Pinta was first developed in 2010 as a cross-platform alternative to Paint.NET. It is written in C# using the GTK toolkit, and the application has received contributions from many developers over the years. The latest stable version improves stability and adds support for new image formats, while keeping its focus on essential tools for graphic creation and editing.

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