mtPaint is a simple GTK+1/2 painting program designed for creating icons and pixel-based artwork. It can edit indexed palette or 24 bit RGB images and offers basic painting and palette manipulation tools. Its main file format is PNG, although it can also handle JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, TGA, XPM, and XBM files.
| Tags | multimedia Graphics Editors Raster-Based |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPLv3 |
| Operating Systems | Windows Windows Windows Windows POSIX Linux |
| Implementation | C |
| Translations | Spanish Czech English French Portuguese Dutch German Italian Japanese Polish Russian Slovak Swedish Turkish Chinese |
Recent releases


Changes: This release updates Japanese, French, and Swedish translations, and fixes several bugs.


Changes: This release adds system clipboard import/export, support for tracing images, "smart grid" and tile grid, a new file selector and color selector, image skewing, an edge-preserving blur effect, seven new edge detection filters, 12 new blend modes, angular, conical, and shapeburst gradients, paste-and-swap operation, better undo memory management for layers, and numerous other improvements and new features. New Dutch, Italian, and Swedish translations have been added, most other translations updated, and several bugs fixed.


Changes: This release adds Galician and Russian translations, updates the Spanish translation, adds some small improvements, and fixes several bugs.


Changes: This release adds an improved text paste tool, the ability to save and load TGA files, support for XPM files with more than 256 colors, two new image quantizers, a tile-based undo system which uses less memory, and many other new features. Several bugs have been fixed.


Changes: This release updates the French translation, adds support for loading and saving LSS16 files, and includes several other improvements and bugfixes. Many GTK+ 1-specific bugs were fixed.
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