Quién no se acuerda del Paint de Windows. A su imagen y semejanza han surgido muchos programas básicos de dibujo, pero solo uno ha destacado por encima del resto, tomando la sencillez del original y potenciándola con características avanzadas para la creación y edición de imágenes: Paint.NET.
Ya está con nosotros la primera versión estable del mejor clon que haya tenido Paint.NET -solo disponible para Windows- en Linux, y su nombre es tan sencillo como cabría esperar:
Pinta es un programa dirigido a quienes se inician en el dibujo o retoque de imágenes digitales y programas como Krita o GIMP, repletos de opciones avanzadas, les quedan grandes. Por el contrario, la aparente simplicidad de Pinta guarda en su interior las herramientas imprescindibles para los trabajos más básicos.
Por ejemplo, Pinta cuenta con capas, historial de cambios, diferentes herramientas de dibujo y ajuste de imagen, una selección de filtros limitada… Lo justo para hacer trabajos sencillos o adentrarse poco a poco y de la manera más fácil en el mundo de la edición de imágenes digitales. No llega al nivel de Paint.NET, pero para el año aproximado de desarrollo que lleva está muy bien.
Features:
- Adjustments (Auto level, Black and White, Sepia, and so on)
- Effects (Motion blur, Glow, Warp, and so on)
- Multiple layers Support
- Unlimited undo/redo
- Drawing tools (Paintbrush, Pencil, Shapes, and so on)
- Full History: Pinta tracks your full history so user can always undo.
What's in this release:
- New Features / Improvements:
- Redesigned shape tools (demo video):
- The Line tool now supports drawing curves and arrows
- Shapes remain editable after being drawn
- All shape tools now support drawing dashed lines
- All selection tools now support the Union, Exclude, Xor, and Intersection modes
- New community add-in repository - add-ins can be installed through the Add-in Manager dialog (via the Add-ins menu)
- Redesigned New Image dialog, which includes presets, orientation and background options, and a thumbnail preview of the image.
- The toolbox and color palette now have a flexible layout and can expand horizontally, making them significantly more usable on small screens.
- When launching Pinta from the command line, the standard --version and --help options are now supported.
- Bugs Fixes:
- Fixed a number of issues with the text tool's support for Unicode text.
- Fixed a number of issues with undoing selections.
- Fixed a number of untranslatable strings throughout Pinta, and the zoom toolbar's percentages are now formatted using the current locale.
- The text tool now supports the standard shortcuts for toggling bold (Ctrl+B), italic (Ctrl+I), and underline (Ctrl+U), and all of the text can be selected with Ctrl+A.
- Fixed a potential crash after undoing a text action.
- Fixed a crash when holding both the left and right mouse buttons with the Pencil tool.
- Fixed issues with zooming in very far on large images
- Fixed a potential crash when exiting Pinta.
- Fixed issues with the toolbar's state (hidden vs. visible) not being preserved after re-opening Pinta.
- Fixed several bugs where undo did not work correctly for the Freeform Shape tool.
- Fixed a bug where resizing a selection allowed the selection to grow beyond the edge of the canvas.
- The selection handles are now larger and easier to click.
- Fixed bugs where using the Recolor tool after the Line/Curve tool resulted in odd behavior.
- The error dialog now includes a link to the bug tracker.
- Improved the error message when opening an unsupported file format.
- Fixed an issue where cancelling the saving of a jpg image made it appear that the image had actually been saved.
- Auto-hiding now works correctly for the history and open images pads.
- Auto Crop now works correctly if there is an active selection.
- The progress dialog is now modal.
- The Backspace and Delete keys are now usable when editing text fields in the toolbar.
- Improved the readability of the text cursor against dark backgrounds.
>>>Available for Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic/14.04 Trusty/12.04 Precise/Linux Mint 17.1/17/13/and other Ubuntu derivatives
To install Pinta in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:
Terminal Commands: |
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sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pinta-maintainers/pinta-stable |
sudo apt-get update |
sudo apt-get install pinta |
Pinta es un programa multiplataforma disponible para Windows, Mac OS X y Linux -evidentemente-, que podéis descargar desde su misma web,