MyPaint is the Mspaint alternative for Linux Ubuntu Systems. Install MyPaint 1.2.0 on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu Derivatives.
MyPaint is a simple drawing and painting program that works well with Wacom-style graphics tablets. MyPaint is a nimble, distraction-free, and easy tool for digital painters. It supports graphics tablets made by Wacom, and many similar devices. Its brush engine is versatile and configurable, and it provides useful, productive tools.
The standard brushes can emulate traditional media like charcoal, pencils, ink, or paint. But you don’t have to limit yourself to just the standard ones. It’s easy to make expressive, artful new brushes that don’t respond like anything conventional. Fullscreen mode declutters the interface, leaving you with just your brush and your creativity. You can still reveal the tools you want, when you need them. This distraction-free approach means you can focus better on the art you make, not the tool you make it with. MyPaint has simplicity, yet it gives you all the tools you need to create great artwork.
MyPaint Version 1.2.0:
MyPaint 1.2.0 is the latest version of the software and has been released with the following changes:
- New intuitive Inking tool for smooth strokes.
- New Flood Fill tool.
- Automated backups of your working docs, with recovery on startup.
- Improved symmetry-setting and frame-setting modes.
- New workspace UI: two sidebars, with dockable tabbed panels.
- Smoother scrolling and panning.
- New brush pack.
- New brush and color history panel.
- New layer trimming command in frame options.
- Added layer groups.
- New layer modes: several masking modes added.
- Add display filters: greyscale, simulate dichromacy for trichromats.
- New color wheel options: Red/Yellow/Blue, Red-Green/Blue-Yellow.
- Uses dark theme variant by default.
- Clearer icons, prettier freehand cursors.
- Device prefs allow glitchy devices to be restricted.
- Eraser mode no longer changes the size of the brush.
- New vector layers, editable in an external app (Inkscape recommended).
- New fallback layer types: non-PNG image, data.
- More kinds of images now work as backgrounds.
- Improved Windows support
- Ported to GTK3.
- Accelerator map editor has moved to preferences.
- Many other bugfixes, translations, and code quality improvements.
Install MyPaint 1.2.0 on Ubuntu
The latest version MyPaint 1.2.0 can be installed on Ubuntu, via PPA. Run the following commands in Terminal to install MyPaint 1.2.0 on Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu Derivatives:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:achadwick/mypaint-testing
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install mypaint
Once installed, open the MyPaint application from Ubuntu Dash or Menu.
If you’d like to build MyPaint from source yourself, you can download an official, signed source code bundle on our GitHub releases page. Ubuntu PPA builds are available from the MyPaint-testing PPA, and other distributions for Linux or OS X will doubtless pick up the new release in due course.
- https://github.com/mypaint/mypaint/releases/tag/v1.2.0
- https://launchpad.net/~achadwick/+archive/ubuntu/mypaint-testing/+packages
If you aren’t happy with program and wish to uninstall MyPaint from Linux Ubuntu Systems, run:
$ sudo apt-get remove mypaint