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Top Reasons to Use CinePaint
- Support for 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit color channels of deep paint.
- High fidelity image file types such as DPX?, OpenEXR and 16-bit TIFF. These files can't be opened in ordinary 8-bit image applications (e.g., GIMP) without crushing them.
- High Dynamic Range. HDR images can go brighter than white. Ordinary images can't be brighter than a white sheet of paper (0=black, 1.0=white).
- Gallery-quality printing. B&W photographs have only one color channel and degrade quickly when manipulated as 8-bit images. CinePaint has higher fidelity and offers a 16-bit printing -path to the print-head using GutenPrint?.
- Color Management System. CinePaint uses LittleCMS?.
- Flipbook. Movie playback of short sequences of images in RAM.
- Innovation. CinePaint offers features that go beyond ordinary painting tools.
- It's used to make feature films at major studios.
- Open Source. With various OSS licenses, because it uses code from various sources, including GPL, LGPL, BSD, and MPL.
- Free.
- Friendly professional developers. Polite discussion forums.
- Being a CinePaint developer can be a good career move. CinePaint developers have gotten jobs at companies such as DreamWorks? Animation, Sony Pictures Imageworks, and Apple.
Top Reasons Not to Use CinePaint
- You're content with proprietary tools Adobe Photoshop, Corel Painter? X, Corel Paint Shop Pro?, or Apple Aperture.
- You're content with open source tools GIMP, Krita, IrfanView, Seashore?, Fotoxx or F-Spot.
- No working Windows CinePaint version.
- CinePaint has implemented new features and reuses code from many projects. However, CinePaint originated as a rewrite of the GIMP 8-bit engine in 1998 and still superficially resembles GIMP.