Comments on: Top 9 Painting Programs for Ubuntu

By: Habutre

Habutre — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:42:14 +0000

For my, different of dozen post on the Web, the Pinta is the best substitute for M$ Paint. The gpaint is too basic and the kolourpaint requires lots of depencies. Pinta is thin and efficient.

By: Richie Lopez

Richie Lopez — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:34:00 +0000

Hi,

we just released a professional painting application for $19.99 for Ubuntu called PaintSupreme, have a look at http://www.braindistrict.com.

Features:

Create, edit and polish images with an easy-to-use and fun user interface.

Layer-based editing with an unlimited amount of layers. Lots of powerful layer-based editing options (merge, group, lock etc.)

Powerful selection tools: Freehand, ellipse and lasso. Selections can be joined, subtracted and intersected and can also be loaded and saved.

Sophisticated but easy to use tools with a lot of powerful options, like the Brush, Pen, Magic Wand, Gradient, Erasure, Clone and Paint Bucket tools.

Various transform, color adjustment and text tools.

Support of vector shapes which can be used as a shape source for the pixel tools and which can be converted to selections.

Guides and rulers make it easy to orientate and paint within sub-parts of the image.

Various filters to polish your images and photos.

Supports dozens of external image formats for import / export.

By: Javier

Javier — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:10:30 +0000

I’m running Ubuntu 10.04 and I get: “Couldn’t find package pinta” maybe I need to upgrade the whole thing.

By: Jake

Jake — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:40:03 +0000

Nice list, Pinta is new that I I did not know.
kolourpaint is my favorite from this list. instead of pinta I have used krita for little challencing editing. krita can be found directly from packages in ubuntu LTS.But have to check that pinta.

By: James

James — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:59:24 +0000

What about a program that’s more like MS Paint? One feature I don’t see in any of these is the ability to add text, that has a background, to a screenshot.

This has been a major source of frustration in my move away from Windows. Anyone know of a good, simple solution out there for adding text to screenshot PNG’s or JPEG’s and making that text have a background so it’s easy to read?

MS Paint is a great program, and I’ve yet to see anything on Linux that even comes close.

Thank you,
Jamesm

By: ninez

ninez — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:24:29 +0000

On the subject of mypaint….

The toolbox can be attached to the painting window, or separate from it. it is also persistent (it remembers your choice, when starting mypaint).

You should have also included cinepaint in your list. Although not popular (unless you edit films in Hollywood), cinepaint is very powerful and supports higher end formats than gimp and the like. it also has a ‘flipbook’ feature for when you are editing multiple frames…

By: Razvan T. Coloja

Razvan T. Coloja — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 10:20:08 +0000

What about Pixel?
http://www.kanzelsberger.com/

By: Craciun Dan

Craciun Dan — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 19:25:07 +0000

Thanks you, guys. I agree, they are for Linux, however I tend to favor Ubuntu and Debian because I use them.

Peter: That’s nice. Actually Pinta was an addition after I published the article, after getting a suggestion on another site :)

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:23:49 +0000

Many thanks for mentioning Pinta!
I saw at instant that it looks very much like Paint.net which I use on Windows for quickly photo editing (and GIMP for the manipulation).

From the Pinta site:
Pinta is a free, open source drawing/editing program modeled after Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

So it’s basicly the same. I’m very glad discovering this program and am going to try it right away!

By: Jonquil

Jonquil — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:53:40 +0000

I agree, it is a nice & comprehensive list of basic paint programs in Linux. I think this person used Ubuntu though to indicate they are all installable through Ubuntu’s repositories. Still the title is a little misleading.

By: dutchkind

dutchkind — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:20:09 +0000

Nice list, but please change title, they can be installed in most linux distro’s