MyPaint
MyPaint is a fast, distraction-free, and easy painting tool for digital artists. It supports graphics tablets made by Wacom, and many similar devices.
What is 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).
MyPaint Features
MyPaint information
- Developed byMartin Renold
- LicensingOpen Source (GPL-2.0) and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4.2
- Alternatives124 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
GitHub repository
- 2,307 Stars
- 364 Forks
- 213 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
Tags
- ink
- free-hand-painting
- Image Editor
I'm really impressed by this app. It's very lightway but features all neccessary functions to make impressive artwork. Also the brushes are astounding. The perfect tool to make sketches or paintings with a very flat learning curve.
MyPaint is an excellent application for uncompromising sketches or drawings. The infinite canvas allows you to make drawings at will, without worrying about the space available in a "virtual paper". You can do a more serious job with this, but your options are limited.
If you uses a Mac getting this app working will be complicated: You need to install MacPorts, which requires Xcode + Xcode Command Line Tools (which is over 5 GB!)
Wasting 5-6GB of disk space for a simple app? Not worth it.
you can install Xcode command line tools without installing Xcode.
Reply written ago
My favorite portable digital studio on the planet!
This app is VERY SPECIFICALLY AIMED AT DRAWING.
This is NOT a general-purpose image editor.
You can't even select an area of an image, and people have been asking for that since 2016.
hands down surpassed all my expectations. so many cool features. can pretty much work entirely in full screen thanks to amazing hotkey tools. example I really like the erase with current brush hot key, this gives your eraser a lot of possibilities. I have 10 brushes hotkeyed and can switch brushsets which means the sky is the limit. brush stroke engine is really nice, might take a little time to learn, but there are many awesome user created brushsets ready-made to choose from download and import. also the join key plus hold shift to make cool twisty 3D-like lines and the ellipses/circle tool, and easy straight lines on the fly. This delivers on so many levels and all for free! and there's even work being done to add perspective: see the forum "Testers wanted: perspective mode (early stages)"
[Edited by snipboyzw, February 02]
Official Site uses Macports to download and install for OSx. I only use Homebrew so won't be using this app.