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Npainter

NPainter is a free fast and simple painting software created from scratch. the most important goal is provide a powerful and lightweight tool for beginner and amateur art artists as well semi-professional artists.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

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Platforms

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • itch.io
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Features

  1.  Pressure Sensitivity
  2.  Custom Brushes
  3.  Drawing Tablet Support

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  •  324 Stars
  •  7 Forks
  •  7 Open Issues
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Lightweight painting software, with huge interface and feature inspiration from Paint Tool SAI and Medibang Paint.

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What is Npainter?

NPainter is a free fast and simple painting software created from scratch. the most important goal is provide a powerful and lightweight tool for beginner and amateur art artists as well semi-professional artists.

This project is under early state and work in progress, however a demo is provided right now to evaluate the following current features:

  • 100% Native and Lightweight: no Electron, no Qt, no GTK, no dear imgui
  • Advanced Layer System: 25 blending modes, clipping group, folders, mask/stencil
  • Brush Engine similar to popular manga software
  • Bucket Fill with Antialiasing + Gap Closing
  • Canvas View Control: zoom, rotation, moving, mirror
  • Infinite Undo History: using compressed swap file
  • First bits of Intuitive UI/UX