CinePaint
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| CinePaint | |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 0.23 / April 6, 2008 |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Genre | Graphics |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | www.cinepaint.org |
CinePaint is a computer program to paint on and retouch bitmap frames of movies. 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.[1] It is free software under the GNU General Public License.
Under its old name Film Gimp, CinePaint has so far been used for films such as Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, The Last Samurai and Stuart Little[2].
Features that set CinePaint apart from its photo-editing predecessor are the frame manager, the possibility to do onion skinning, and to work with 16-bit and floating point pixels for HDR. CinePaint supports a 16-bit colour 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.
It is available for Linux, BSD, UNIX-like OSes, Mac OS X, and SGI IRIX. Currently support for Windows is broken.
Glasgow, a complete new code architecture for CinePaint, will make a new Windows version possible and is currently under production. The Glasgow effort is FLTK based[3].
[edit] Main features
CinePaint is a professional open-source raster graphics editor. It is not a video editor.
Per-channel color engine core: 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit.
Image formats: BMP, CIN, DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, OpenEXR, PNG, TIFF, XCF, and more.
Examples of application in the movie industry include Elf, Looney Tunes, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Duplex, The Last Samurai, Showtime, Blue Crush, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Harry Potter, Cats & Dogs, Dr. Dolittle 2, Little Nicky, The Grinch, Sixth Day, Stuart Little, Planet of the Apes, Stuart Little 2, and Spider-Man.[4]
Main competitor: Adobe Photoshop.
Available in the following platforms: Linux, Mac Native, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Windows XP.
[edit] References
- ^ Robin Rowe (2005-02-17). The Linux Motion Picture Pipeline. LinuxMovies.org. Retrieved on 2007-07-29.
- ^ Linux Free Software's killer applications, visited 8-7-2007
- ^ CinePaint Documentation: Why Migrate from GTK to FLTK, Retrieved on March 10, 2008
- ^ CinePaint home page
[edit] External links
- CinePaint Web site
- CinePaint Wiki and downloads
- 16-bit imaging. From digital camera to print a colour management tutorial
- Basic color management for X
- High Dynamic Range images under Linux
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