Pinta 0.2 has been released. Pinta is a drawing/editing program modeled after Paint.NET. It's goal is to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP for casual users. It is currently early in development.

" Pinta 0.2 is a big step towards general feature parity with PDN, by adding great new features like:

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Pinta 0.2 on Windows

- 5 new tools (Paint Bucket, Recolor, Line, Zoom, Pan)
- 5 new adjustments (Levels, Curves, Brightness/Contrast, Hue/Saturation, Posterize)
- 5 new effects (Ink Sketch, Oil Painting, Pencil Sketch, Gaussian Blur, Glow)
- Enhanced layer and history pads
- Multithreaded adjustments/effects rendering
- Basic OS X integration
- and more!
Full release notes (with pictures!) are available here. "

Pinta is licensed under the MIT X11  open source license. You can download your version for Windows, Mac OSX, and GNU/Linux from Here.

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Pinta !

Jamaan (not verified) on Thu, 03/18/2010 - 14:24

It has a useful tools and functions
I really like it. But it takes time and effort to be substitute of GIMP.

For fedora users , you can download openSUSE package.
Thanks Fahad