A powerful and unique digital art program, focusing on natural media painting, photo editing and illustrative styles.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application typeApplication types
Platforms
- Windows
United States




Gimp Painter is described as 'Fork of GIMP aiming to add drawing and painting features to the official project. It offers 2 extra tools: "G-Pen" (a stabilized ink tool) and "Mixbrush" (a paintbrush tool with pigment mixing on canvas' and is a digital painting tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Gimp Painter for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPhone, Android and iPad apps. The best Gimp Painter alternative is GIMP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Gimp Painter are Krita, Adobe Photoshop, Paint.NET and MyPaint.
A powerful and unique digital art program, focusing on natural media painting, photo editing and illustrative styles.




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