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CinePaint 
CinePaint 0.22 on Fedora 14Stable release 0.25 / November 6, 2008[1] Operating system Unix-like Type Graphics License GNU General Public License Website www.cinepaint.org CinePaint is an open source computer program for painting and retouching bitmap frames of films. It is a fork of version 1.0.4 of the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). It enjoyed some success as one of the earliest open source tools developed for feature motion picture visual effects and animation work.[2] The main reason for this adoption over mainline gimp was its support for high bit depths (greater than 8-bits per channel) which can be required for film work. The mainline gimp plans to add (but has not yet added) these features [3]. It is free software under the GNU General Public License.
Under its former name Film Gimp, CinePaint was used for films such as Scooby-Doo (2002), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001), The Last Samurai (2003) and Stuart Little (1999).[4]
Features that set CinePaint apart from its photo-editing predecessor include the frame manager, onion skinning, and the ability to work with 16-bit and floating point pixels for high dynamic range imaging (HDR). CinePaint supports a 16-bit color managed workflow for photographers and printers, including CIE*Lab and CMYK editing. It supports the Cineon, DPX, and OpenEXR image file formats. HDR creation from bracketed exposures is easy.
CinePaint is currently available for Unix-like OSes including Mac OS X and IRIX.
Glasgow, a completely new code architecture being used for CinePaint, is expected to make a new Windows version possible and is currently under production. The Glasgow effort is FLTK based.[5] This effort appears to have stalled.[6]
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Main features
CinePaint is a professional open-source raster graphics editor, not a video editor. Per-channel color engine core: 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit. The image formats it supports include BMP, CIN, DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, OpenEXR, PNG, TIFF, and XCF. Examples of the software's application in the movie industry include[7]:
- Elf (2003)
- Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
- League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
- Duplex (2003)
- The Last Samurai (2003)
- Showtime (2002)
- Blue Crush (2002)
- 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
- The Harry Potter series
- Cats & Dogs (2001)
- Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001)
- Little Nicky (2000)
- The Grinch (2000)
- The 6th Day (2000)
- Stuart Little (1999)
- Planet of the Apes (2001)
- Stuart Little 2 (2002)
- Spider-Man (2002)
The program is available on Linux, OS X, FreeBSD and NetBSD. Its main competitors are the mainline GIMP and Adobe Photoshop.
See also
References
- ^ http://www.cinepaint.org/
- ^ Robin Rowe (2005-02-17). "The Linux Motion Picture Pipeline". LinuxMovies.org. http://linuxmovies.org/software.html. Retrieved 2007-07-29.
- ^ "Gimp 2.6 release notes". http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.6.html. Retrieved 2011-05-10.
- ^ CinePaint home page
- ^ CinePaint Documentation: Why Migrate from GTK to FLTK, Retrieved on March 10, 2008
- ^ [1]
- ^ Old CinePaint about page
External links
- CinePaint Web site
- CinePaint Wiki and downloads
- 16-bit imaging. From digital camera to print a colour management tutorial
- Basic color management for X (linux.com)
- High Dynamic Range images under Linux (linux.com)
- GIMP and Film Production
Categories:- Free raster graphics editors
- Free video software
- Linux bitmap graphics editors
- Cross-platform software
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