CinePaint

The main CinePaint website (where you can download files) is at http://www.cinepaint.org.

CinePaint Main Docs Page

CinePaint documentation on Wiki-based web pages can be edited live.

LICENSE: Documentation created here is released under the OSI MIT license (a BSD-style license) and copyright the original authors. In providing documentation here authors agree to release such documentation under this very liberal license. Contributing writers are cautioned not copy the works of others without permission. You must have authority to release any text or images you provide. Material that violates this policy will be removed. We chose the MIT license over other licenses (such as GNU FDL) for simplicity and the lack of restrictions on derivative works. Links to external sites may have different licenses.

Documentation for the current release is here. Our next generation architecture is on this page:

Glasgow Documentation

Installation

• Windows (broken in legacy architecture, works in coming Glasgow version)
• Macintosh
  • [Mac OS X Compiling] 11/11/07 Robin Rowe
  • Mac OS X Panther Installation 6/25/04 Nelson Brann
  • MacOSXPantherInstallation 9/23/04 Lucy Lu
  • How to Uninstall MacCinePaint 3/16/04 Andy Prock
• Linux
  • Debian (search on cinepaint at http://packages.debian.org)
  • Gentoo "emerge cinepaint" or look at http://gentoo-portage.com/media-video/cinepaint for details
  • Gentoo packaging 4/10/06 Hassan Khoshkhabar
  • Redhat (search on cinepaint at http://rpm.pbone.net) or take from http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/bekun/Fedora_Extras_6/repodata/
  • Mandrake (supported)
  • SUSE (supported) http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/bekun/openSUSE_10.2/repodata/
  • Ubuntu universe at http://mirrors.xmission.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/c/cinepaint/
  • Grafpup - a 72MB Live CD http://www.grafpup.org/
  • Arch Linux in extra at http://archlinux.org/packages/search/?q=cinepaint
• BSD
  • FreeBSD (supported)
  • NetBSD (supported)
  • OpenBSD (not supported?)
• IRIX (use source tarball)
• Source
  • Source Tarball 1/29/05 Robin Rowe
  • CVS HOWTO 1/29/05 Robin Rowe

Getting Started

• Getting Started 12/7/02 Robin Rowe
• HD and Digital Intermediate 3/14/04 Robin Rowe
• Motion Picture Tools Overview 3/5/04 Robin Rowe
• CinePaintGlossary

User Documentation

• Statistical Filters 11/11/05 Nicola Montecchiari
• DCraw camera RAW decoding 10/27/05 Kai-Uwe Behrmann
• HighDynamicRange image creation and handling 10/26/05 Hartmut Sbosny and others
• CinePaint - 16-bit imaging. From digital camera to print - an tutorial (external link). german version Kai-Uwe Behrmann
• From rawfile to print, a colormanaged 16 bit workflow on linux - (external) screencast of Lars Tore Gustavsen
• Teaching Animation Using Open Source Tools 3/16/05 Robin Rowe
• RotoscopingLightSabres is a fairly easy tutorial for a started project, even if it isn't the sort of project CinePaint is really intended for.
• Rotoscoping Light Sabres 2/9/04 Tom Huffman
• KDE Button Style 8/31/04 Robin Rowe
• CinePaint Flipbook User Documentation 5/23/04
• CinePaint Colour Management User Documentation 5/11/04
• How Common is 32-bit? 5/6/04
• Feature Matrix
• The Spirit of Open Source 3/17/04
• The History of CinePaint 7/4/04 Robin Rowe
• Creating Custom Brushes for Film Gimp 02/06/03 Dave Nagel (external)

Developer Documentation

• Internationalisation i18n 08/april/06 Kai-Uwe Behrmann
• New Developer Procedures 10/1/05 Robin Rowe
• Backing Up the Wiki Using wget 2/11/05 Robin Rowe
• Development Timeline 9/26/04 Robin Rowe
• Function trace: loading an image 6/25/04
• Fixing make distcheck openexr issue 3/26/04
• Adding a new plug-in to CinePaint 3/24/04
• Comparing CinePaint and GEGL/GIMP Architectures 2/29/04
• GIMP Code Integration 2/20/04
• CinePaint Roadmap 2/19/04
• Debuggng Linux Plug-ins 2/17/04
• GIMP Plug-in Quick Port Guide 2/11/04
• ChannelArchitecture
• RenderArchitecture 6/25/04
• DisplayCMS
• CinePaint Code Architecture - Added January 10, 2004
• CMYK Features Suggestions - Added December 17, 2003
• Proposed Channel Plug-in Architecture - Added December 17, 2003
• DL_list Documentation - Added December 17, 2003
• Java VM Comparison - Added December 8, 2003
• Work-in-Progress - Added December 2, 2003
• XCF file format - Added December 2, 2003, Updated December 17, 2003
• SpotMascot - Added December 2, 2003
• UBFP Paint Functions - Added December 2, 2003
• Adding rc data - Added December 2, 2003
• CASR Coding Style Recommendation - Added July 27, 2003
• GIMP GBR Brush Specification - Added July 10, 2003
• Developers Roadmap (DR) - Added June 21, 2003
• Studio Workflow - Added June 22, 2003
• CinePaint Architecture Plan (CAP) - Added Feb 7, 2003
• Macro Recorder Design - Added Feb 10, 2003
• Brushes - Added Jan 27, 2003
• Color Management - Added Jan 27, 2003
• Plug-ins - Creating and using - Added Nov 20, 2002
• CVS HOWTO - Added Jan 21, 2003
• Patches HOWTO - For developers, creating and applying patches - Added Nov 30, 2002
• CinePaint Initialization - An aid to programmers learning the CinePaint code - Added Jan 21, 2003
• Building CinePaint from Source - Added Nov 20, 2002
• Release Manager Notes - Please ignore, instructions so we don't forget what we're doing - Added July 24, 2002

Versions

• CinePaint 0.22 Released April 05, 2007 Kai-Uwe Behrmann
• CinePaint 0.21 Released Aug 11, 2006 Kai-Uwe Behrmann
• CinePaint 0.20 Released Nov 3, 2005 Kai-Uwe Behrmann
• CinePaint 0.19 Changes 1 June/5/05
• CinePaint 0.19 Changes 3/28/04
• Release 0.18-2 3/21/04
• CinePaint Progress Reports 3/1/04

Obsolete Documentation

• http://cinepaint.sourceforge.net/docs/index.html

Wiki

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