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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.

QAquarelle is discontinued. Find alternatives in the list below or click here for more info

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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