MyPaint

MyPaint 0.9.0 beta1 has now been released. This release has most of the new features, changes and fixes that will be in MyPaint 0.9.0. A list of the improvements is unfortunately not available at this time, so just check it out instead The final relase will be out in between 2 and 4 weeks time. Here [...]

Here is a short summary of MyPaint related things from Libre Graphics Meeting 2010. The two most active MyPaint developers, Martin Renold and Jon Nordby attended, along with a number of MyPaint community members like “Popolon” and “vlada”.  Also ... [More] attending was several users, including some that use MyPaint professionally like Camille Bissue “yagraph”. Sadly David Revoy, [...] [Less]

Libre Graphics Meeting, or LGM for short, is a conference for users and developers of free and open source graphics software. It brings together people from many projects, including Inkscape, GIMP, Krita and Blender, and aims to foster collaboration and sharing of ideas. This year, LGM is held in Brussels, Belgium between 27th and 30th of [...]

This is an ultra-conservative bugfix release. This fixes a regression in MyPaint 0.8.1, where temporary layers did not disappear, eg. when picking brushes from the canvas.

This is a conservative bugfix release. A memory leak has been fixed that was keeping all layers ever visited in memory. Layer names are now loaded correctly. When saving PNG, layer visibility is now handled correctly. Other minor bugs were fixed, and the GUI has been translated into Korean.

Finally we got MyPaint 0.8.0 released. There were many persons involved coding, creating new brushes and translating. Thanks to everyone who has contributed! My personal highlight are all the new brushes, nicely grouped and ready to be discovered. ... [More] This happened even though the number of changes in the brush engine was near zero. Some brushes are [...] [Less]

Intrest around the MyPaint project seems to have increased lately, both from end users and contributors. I suspect this is both due to the software maturing and getting more publicity (especially thanks to David Revoy of the Durian project).  We hope to see this trend continue! In and before version 0.7 practially all development was done [...]

pablolizardo came into our IRC channel on irc.freenode.net (#mypaint) and quickly told us about the flickr group he created. You can find it here There’s already some nice stuff there! Thanks, pablolizardo.

This is a bugfix release without any new features worth mentioning. Screen artefacts seen by Compiz users were fixed by limiting the cursor size. Windows specific bugs were fixed; we finally have a recent Windows binary again. This release does not contain the new features that are in git. Download and Changelog

The blender foundation famous for it’s Open Source 3D software blender has been making Open movies for a few years. Their last movie “Big Buck Bunny” showed just how level the playing field has become. Now on their next big project tentatively titled “Project Durian” they have chosen MyPaint as one of their design packages. David Revoy [...]