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6 CinePaint - 32-bit image painting and retouching
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11 cinepaint [option ...] [files ...]
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16 CinePaint is different from other painting tools because it supports
17 deep color depth image formats up to 32-bit per channel deep. For com‐
18 parison, GIMP is limited 8-bit, and Photoshop to 16-bit. To avoid bit
19 depth confusion, note that 48-bit scanners are 16-bit per channel and
20 24-bit monitors are 8-bit per channel. Like with audio, extra image
21 bits can hold higher fidelity.
22 CinePaint supports high fidelity image formats such as 32-bit TIFF,
24 10-bit log Cineon, and 16-bit half float OpenEXR. It also supports less
25 exotic formats such as JPEG, GIF and PNG. For historical reasons, Cine‐
26 Paint's native format is 16-bit XCF, a variant of the GIMP format.
27 Internally, CinePaint works in 8-bit unsigned, 16-bit unsigned, 16-bit
28 binary fixed point, 16-bit chopped float, or 32-bit IEEE float. Support
29 for 16-bit half float is coming.
30 CinePaint includes a built-in flipbook for playback of image sequences.
32 It does not yet support audio playback or synchronized 24fps playback.
33 It doesn't yet support editing, DV, M-JPEG, AVI, Quicktime, or MPEG.
34 CinePaint runs on all popular flavors of Linux and on Mac OS X as an
36 X11 application. A native Mac Aqua port of CinePaint is in development.
37 The Windows port of CinePaint is currently broken, but may be available
38 again in 2005.
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42 From cinepaint --help
43 Usage: cinepaint [option ...] [files ...] Valid options are:
45 -h --help Output this help.
46 -v --version Output version info.
47 -b --batch <commands> Run in batch mode.
48 -n --no-interface Run without a user interface.
49 --no-data Do not load patterns, gradients, palettes,
50 brushes.
51 --verbose Show startup messages.
52 --no-splash Do not show the startup window.
53 --no-splash-image Do not add an image to the startup window.
54 --no-shm Do not use shared memory between GIMP and its
55 plugins.
56 --no-xshm Do not use the X Shared Memory extension.
57 --console-messages Display warnings to console instead of a dia‐
58 log box.
59 --debug-handlers Enable debugging signal handlers.
60 --display <display> Use the designated X display.
61 The no-interface mode has never worked, but a new architecture called
63 img_img is under development to provide headless operation.
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66 DISPLAY - default host and display number.
67 XENVIRONMENT - name of a resource file that overrides the global
69 resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property
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72 $PREFIX/bin/cinepaint - program
73 $HOME/.cinepaint - user configuration/data
75 $PREFIX/lib/cinepaint/$VERSION - plug-ins, etc.
77 $PREFIX/share/cinepaint/$VERSION - configuration/data
79 gtkrc - GTK config settings
81 menurc - keybindings
83 pluginrc - plugin initialization values
85 $HOME/.cinepaint/tmp - temp space default
87 brushes - brush files
89 palettes - palette files
91 patterns - pattern files
93 gradients - gradient files
95 scripts - scripts used in Script-Fu
97 gflares - gflare files
99 gfig - gfig files
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104 CinePaint was originally based on GIMP 1.0.4, but has had many indepen‐
105 dent contributions and has adopted code from other open source
106 projects. This code is a mixture of GPL, LGPL and BSD licenses. Copy‐
107 rights are to the original authors, which are many.
108 For information about open source licenses see www.opensource.org.
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112 Report bugs or feature suggestions to the mailing list at cine‐
113 paint-developers@lists.sourceforge.net or the online bug-tracking sys‐
114 tem available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cinepaint/. Anyone can
115 post to the developers list, but posting to the bug-tracker requires
116 logging into SourceForge. Patches are welcome and can be submitted to
117 the SourceForge site.
118 When reporting bugs please include description, instructions to repro‐
120 duce the bug, version number of CinePaint and OS version.
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123 CinePaint began in 1998 as a project sponsored by motion picture tech‐
124 nology company Silicon Grail (later acquired by Apple) and visual
125 effects studio Rhythm & Hues. The goal was to add deep paint to GIMP.
126 By 2000 a CVS branch of GIMP known as Film Gimp offered that feature.
127 GIMP had begun in 1995 as a class project at the University of Califor‐
129 nia Berkeley, but the original student developers left GIMP after grad‐
130 uation. The GIMP student effort was mostly taken over by hackers who
131 wanted to further the GNU cause. In 2000 the GIMP hackers and Silicon
132 Grail ceased work on the Hollywood-based development of GIMP. Although
133 everyone at GIMP (mostly based in Germany) thought it was dead, Film
134 Gimp development continued independently in Hollywood at Rhythm & Hues
135 and then spread to Sony Pictures Imageworks.
136 On July 4, 2002, Film Gimp was released to the general public on
138 SourceForge. Many more developers joined the project. A year later the
139 project was renamed CinePaint. The current developers of CinePaint have
140 never had any affiliation with the GIMP project.
141 www.cinepaint.org
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145 Programmers at Rhythm & Hues, Sony Pictures Imageworks, DreamWorks,
146 ILM, other companies, and universities have contributed to CinePaint's
147 development.
148 For a list of authors see www.cinepaint.org.
150 Robin Rowe
152 CinePaint project leader
154 <Robin.Rowe@MovieEditor.com>
156Robin.Rowe@MovieEditor.com January 1, 2005 CinePaint(1)