Microsoft Paint Alternatives for Linux

Alternatives to Microsoft Paint for Linux with any license

Krita

Krita is a complete creative sketching and painting application with advanced, commercial quality features. It's free, open-source and available across all major desktop platforms. User Interface - An intuitive user interface that stays out of your way. The dockers and panels can be moved and customized for your specific workflow. Once you have your setup, you can save it as your own workspace. You can also create your own shortcuts for commonly used tools.
- No, Paint is far smaller and more limited program than Krita. Krita can do much more than Paint, so using it as an alternative would be absurdly unwieldy. Guest • Feb 2020 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Paint is a far smaller and more limited program than Krita. While Krita can probably do everything Paint can, it can do so much more that to use it as an alternative would be absurdly unwieldy. Guest • Aug 2019 • 6 agrees and 4 disagrees
- I was looking for a program that could convert a .JPG file into .ico,and Krita did just that. vincentasmargis • Jul 2017 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees
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Digital Drawing Animation Blending brushes Frame by frame animation ... Keyframe animation Advanced brush settings Animations Digital-painting focused Drawing Lightweight Smooth lines Texture painting Support for Wacom Tablets 3D Poser Background transparency Blending and lineart Brush Stabilizers Color blending Customizable Image Editing Layer manipulation Multi-choice brushes Penetration tools Sketching Texture for brushes Auto aligment rulers Auto Correction Document templates Drawing 2D Drawing Tablet Support Fullscreen support Instant edit screenshots Support for Layers No Kernel-Mode Components Page labeling Painting Tools Photographic editor Pop-up Palette Portable Open PSD files Rewind the changes Structured data Support for Hotkeys SVG Editors Symmetry brush Tablet Pressure Sensitivity Timeline-based Optimized for Touch screen Add a feature

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MyPaint

MyPaint is a fast painting program with an emphasis on full-screen use. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only when you need it. MyPaint supports pressure or tilt sensitive graphic tablets and comes with an easy-to-use brush collection. There is a complex interface for creating own brushes, focusing on brush dynamics (changes with speed, pressure, randomly).
- There is no selection tool, which is what i need. Guest • Jun 2017 • 5 agrees and 2 disagrees
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Infinite canvas Color blending Drawing Fullscreen support ... Image Editing Support for Layers Portable Sketching Support for Wacom Tablets Add a feature

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Pinta

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. On Windows, Pinta requires the .NET framework, just like Paint.NET.
- Discontinued
  Last stable release was in 2015. See https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/releases/1-6
- Pinta Has all the tool necessary for a quick manipulation, like paste screenshots, cut, paste, resize, etc... Guest • Nov 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Simple interface with powerful tools Guest • Feb 2018
- Is simple and have all the tools of Microsoft Paint Guest • Jan 2018
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Mono
Support for Layers Image Editing Lightweight Add a feature

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KolourPaint

Features: + Support for drawing various shapes - lines, rectangles, rounded rectangles, ovals and polygons. + Curves, lines and text. + Colour picker. + Selections. + Rotation, monochrome and other advanced effects. KolourPaint does not support transparencies in PNG files.
- Best alternative for Linux with KDE environment. UsernameUn • Dec 2019
- Easy to use with more functions. Guest • Apr 2019 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Almost the same funtions and interface edgatolobo • Sep 2019
- Reacts very similar. Has rectangle selection. Cut and paste work well (like paint.) Has an undo feature. When a file is opened to edit, it resizes it's own screen. You can stretch the screen with the mouse just like paint. Guest • Feb 2019
- It works very well and is like what paint should be. Guest • Apr 2020
Free Open Source Linux
Image Editing Texturing Add a feature

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LazPaint

LazPaint is a free and open image editor, like PaintBrush or Paint.Net, written in Lazarus (Free Pascal). Uses BGRABitmap library. LazPaint has features layers and transparency. It supports the format OpenRaster so it can interoperate with MyPaint, Gimp and Krita. LazPaint has been written with Lazarus / Free Pascal and BGRABitmap.
- Really lightweight and fast, has a lot of additional features but is neat, making it powerful but not complicated (looking at you, Gimp). It would count closer to a Paint.NET replacement in my opinion. Though if you have this why would you ever want a normal MS Paint clone? Guest • Mar 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
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Lightweight Reads PDN Format Layer manipulation Pixel accuracy ... Transparent images Support for Layers Portable Add a feature

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Pixelitor

Pixelitor is a cross-platform raster graphics editor written in Java. It supports image filters, drawing, layers, multiple undo, etc. Currently its main strength lies in the more than 70 image filters and color adjustments, some of which are unique. Features: - Layers. - Unlimited undo. - Image filters. - Color adjustments. - Drawing.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Drawing Image Editing Image Processing Java ... Photo effects Photographic filters Retouch photos Sketching Add a feature

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miniPaint

miniPaint is free online image editor using HTML5. Edit, adjust your images, add effects online in your browser without installing anything. You can use the Electron based version of the editor if you like.

Free Open Source Linux Web Self-Hosted
Create New Empty Images Support for Layers No Login Required Add a feature

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PhotoFlare

Photoflare is a cross-platform image editor with an aim to balance between powerful features and a very friendly graphical user interface. It suits a wide variety of different tasks and users who value a more nimble workflow. Features include basic image editing capabilities, paint brushes, image filters, colour adjustments and more advanced features such as Batch image processing.
- Photoflare is more powerfull than microsoft paint but below a full featured program like Gimp. With the simple and intuitive UI, you can make basic edits, like crop an image, add text, annotate, draw, change contrast... clembeb • Apr 2020
Free Open Source Windows Linux
Image Editing Photo effects Photographic filters Add a feature

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showFoto

You can use it to view your photographs and improve them. Showfoto is the standalone image editor of the digiKam project.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux KDE
Image browser Image Editing Add a feature

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Dibuja

Easily create drawings and edit images. Add arrows, text, and effects to your drawings and pictures, or crop and resize your images. The application is for the most part feature complete and will receive bug fixes as necessary. Dibuja is the default graphics application for ALDOS (mexican linux distro) and it's also included in the repositories of: - ALT Linux - PCLinuxOS - https://alternativeto .
- Low resources and can do many things rutricemla • Apr 2020
Free Open Source Linux BSD
Crop images Drawing Image Editing Add a feature

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