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QAquarelle

Qaquarelle is a very young opensource Qt4-based painting application that is supposed to provide a...

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Qaquarelle is a very young opensource Qt4-based painting application that is supposed to provide a native way of painting with emulated traditional instruments, including watercolor simulation, full support for tablets and OpenGL-based processing in GPU.

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Discontinued painter watercolor

QAquarelle was added by gyorgyjano in Nov 2010 and the latest update was made in Nov 2014. The list of alternatives was updated Aug 2018 There is a history of all activites on QAquarelle in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on QAquarelle or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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Latest vsersion: 0.0.4 from 2010-02-09. See https://sourceforge.net/projects/qaquarelle/files/

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QAquarelle Comments

Comment by mohawke

about QAquarelle · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

This is a fairly young application, but it works very well. I see it competing with MyPaint, Painter, etc. I can't wait for this to mature, and to see what kind of features get added. Nice that it runs on OS X and Linux also.

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