News
9th June 2008
Version 3.21 released
Version 3.21 has new Galician and Russian translations, updated Spanish translation, and several small improvements and bugfixes.
28th December 2007
Version 3.20 released
After fixing a dozen small but annoying bugs, now mtPaint 3.20 is ready at last, and can be downloaded HERE.
19th November 2007
Version 3.19 released
The latest beta version of mtPaint is now available, and can be DOWNLOADED HERE.
Version 3.19 is a beta version for the final version 3.20, which will be released in a few weeks time. It was a long time between releases, but not all of it had been wasted. ;-) Among other things, mtPaint had large parts of its low-level image-handling and interface framework rewritten, so if you spot any bugs or glitches, please contact me HERE.
Here is the latest fragment from the NEWS file:
- mtPaint is now licensed as GPL version 3 (or later)
- Chinese (Simplified) added by puppychinese(Cecc)
- Japanese translation added by Norihiro YONEDA
- Polish translation updated by Groszek150(LucaS)
- FreeType text pasting facility added
- Actions section added to File menu
- Sharper image reduction toggle added to "Scale Canvas"
- Spacing for non-continuous tools is now configurable - right click the continuous mode toggle
- "Blend" drawing mode added
- "Unassociate Alpha" operation added to Channels menu
- PNG compression level made configurable
- TGA file format save/load added
- JPEG2000 file format save/load added
- XPM files with up to 4096 colours can now be saved and loaded as RGB images
- Palette->Dither A sets colour A/B and the pattern based on the current A colour and the palette
- Max-min quantizer added - creates small palettes with higher saturation and contrast
- Faster and better PNN quantizer replaces the old DL3 quantizer
- Full error precision toggle added to settings page of 'Convert To Indexed' window
- Eliminated flicker when scrolling canvas in GTK+1 and GTK+2/Windows
- Dragging the main/view window divider made to behave in GTK+1
- Main menu now rearranges itself to fit in window
- Tile based undo system introduced to save memory when changes affect only small areas of the canvas
- Max undo levels now configurable (from 10 to 1000)
- Image loading now can be made undoable
- mtPaint can now be compiled as a library (libmtpaint)
- Image rotation now sharper and faster
- Difference of Gaussians effect added
- Patterns increased to 100 and now stored in xbm_patterns.xbm file
- Edit->Create Patterns removed as patterns are now saved as standard XBM file
- Preferences->Paths : Default palette and patterns now selectable
- BUGFIX - Colour selective mode with zoom < 100% doesn't cause crash
- BUGFIX - Gradient preview now properly shows effect of mask channel
- BUGFIX - "Resize Canvas" with negative offset now works correctly
- BUGFIX - Clipboard rotation now properly handles clipboard alpha
- Lanczos3 rescaling filter removed due to unfavourable results
- DL1 quantizer removed for the same reason
3rd April 2007
Version 3.11 released
Version 3.11 has updated French translation, support for saving and loading LSS16 files, and several other improvements. Also, GTK+1 support is now much better, with many bugs fixed.
22nd January 2007
Version 3.10 released
Interface issues got resolved, a couple of other bugs got fixed, and now version 3.10 of mtPaint is finally ready, and can be downloaded HERE.
There was a change in packaging - now, HTML documentation is included in Linux binary packages, instead of being a separate download. The increased size of these packages is due to that, and not to mtPaint binary suddenly becoming hugely bloated. :-)
Also, due to popular demand, we now provide a .deb package for Ubuntu.
30th December 2006
Version 3.09 released
The latest beta version of mtPaint is now available, and can be DOWNLOADED HERE.
Version 3.09 is a beta version for the final version 3.10, which will be released in a few weeks time. It may exhibit interface glitches in its gradient configuration window under some systems, which problem will be fixed in the final release. If you do have other problems with the program or the handbook, please contact me HERE.
There are improvements in many areas, but the new version is not much larger, and certainly
no slower, than before.
Here is the latest fragment from the NEWS file:
- Gradient drawing mode added
- Palette shifting feature added to Palette menu
- Turkish translation added by Muhammet Kara, Tutku Dalmaz
- Taiwanese Chinese translation added by Wei-Lun Chao
- Image tiling mode added to "Resize Canvas"
- Greyscale effect now respects masking
- Gamma corrected greyscale effect added
- Gaussian blur effect replaces the old blur effect
- Unsharp mask effect added
- More palette sort modes added
- Controls for alpha/selection/mask A/B added to "Edit colour A & B"
- RGB and HSV colour scales generation integrated into palette editor
- New advanced dithering modes with many configuration options added to "Convert To Indexed" window
- Optional gamma correction for image scaling, rotation, Gaussian blur and unsharp mask
- Smudge tool can be configured to ignore opacity mode - right click the tool icon
- Smudge tool respects tool opacity for RGB images
- Channel deletion made easier to use
- View window can now be placed under drawing window using the View menu or 'H' key
- "Blend A to B" with colour A identical to B now works like GIMP's Color To Alpha filter
- Arrows and Shift+Arrows now move cursor around on canvas
- Enter now simulates left mouse click, and Backspace, right click
- '[' ']' and '{' '}' keys now used to change colour A/B
- Ctrl+scroll wheel now scrolls canvas left-right (GTK+2 only)
- Shift-+/- keys now zooms view window in/out
- Shift-1...Shift-4 keys now switch to image/alpha/selection/mask channel
- Selection marquee now persists through tool changes
- Lasso tool now works for rectangular selections too
- Indexed clipboard can now be pasted into RGB image
- Image save/load completely rewritten, now with better support for TIFF, BMP, XPM and XBM formats
- Channels, composite images and undo images can now be saved to any suitable supported file format
- Image channel can now be saved and loaded just like other channels
- Paint tool in tint mode now respects both Tint +/- toggle and left/right mouse button
- "By image channel" flood fill option now works in non-fuzzy mode too
- BUGFIX - Polygonal selections now respect selection channel
- BUGFIX - Effects menu items now remain enabled for indexed images' utility channels
- BUGFIX - 'Focus View Window' toggle now doesn't cause snatching during layer drags
- BUGFIX - Smudge now doesn't make pixels darker than it should
13th October 2006
Version 3.02 released
Version 3.02 has updated Spanish translation and several bugfixes.
16th July 2006
Version 3.01 released
Version 3.01 has updated German translation and two minor bugfixes.
25th June 2006
mtPaint is alive and well!
From now on, mtPaint project will be maintained by me, Dmitry Groshev.
Version 3.10 can be expected sometime this autumn. I hope. ;-)
21st June 2006
Version 3.00 released
Sadly I am suspending the mtPaint project with immediate effect. Due to real world issues that I have to face, I do not have the time or the energy to continue. It was a great project, and a lot of fun over the last 2 years, but nothing lasts forever.
I would like to thank all of the people who have helped me with mtPaint, or written to me with feedback, as I have really appreciated their support.
I hope people continue to find mtPaint useful, either as a tool, or maybe a fork.
Best wishes for the future,
Mark.
17th June 2006
Version 2.90 released
The latest beta version of mtPaint is now available, and can be DOWNLOADED HERE.
The documentation now exists in a separate HTML form. CLICK HERE for more information.
Version 2.90 is a beta version for the final version 3.00, which will be released in a few weeks time if no major bugs are found. If you do have a problem with the program or the new handbook, please contact me HERE.
There are a lot of changes and additions to the program but it remains small and fast. In fact, thanks to Dmitry's excellent work, many operations are significantly faster and more efficient than before.
Here is the latest fragment from the NEWS file:
- Channels facilities added
- Menus & toolbars reworked to be more task oriented
- Toolbars can now be toggled on and off via the View menu
- Drag 'n' drop from file managers supported for loading new layers
- Clicking palette numbers opens up "Palette Editor" window
- Paste preview now respects the palette protection mask
- Transform Colour Window - Hue control added
- Transform Colour Window - Selective palette option
- Undo now less wasteful of memory when adjusting the palette
- Major rewrite of back end code to improve performance
- Colour A/B editor now uses GTK+ colour dialog
- Ctrl+Arrows resizes selection area
- Flood fill has fuzzy mode - right click icon for controls
- Saving/Loading clipboards now includes mask data
- Saving a composite layer image now de-coupled from saving the layer data file
- Most documentation has been removed from the F1 help and is now in HTML form
- HTML documentation available as a separate download package
- mtPaint mailing lists set up - http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=155874
- configure script makes no assumptions about CPU - ./configure --help
- BUGFIX - Saving a composite layer image does not occasionally leave transparent areas
- BUGFIX - Transforming colour of palette with preview (RGB images) now works properly
- BUGFIX - Status bar now updated after removing all layers
31st May 2006
Version 2.31 released
A German translation was contributed by Oliver Frommel, so I released a new version for the benefit of German mtPaint users.
Version 2.90 Coming Soon
The work on the new features for version 3 is almost finished, so a beta version (2.90) will be released sometime in June. If you want to get an email when this is released, sign up to the 'announce' mailing list as described HERE.