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CinePaint is a computer program to paint on and retouch bitmap frames of movies. It is a fork of version 1.0.4. of the GIMP. It is free software under the GNU General Public License. Its developers claim it is the most successful open source tool in feature motion picture work today.

Under its old name Film Gimp, CinePaint has so far been used for films such as Scooby-Doo
, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
and Stuart Little
.

Features that set CinePaint apart from its photo-editing predecessor are the frame manager, the possibility to do onion skinning, and to work with 16-bit and floating point pixels for HDR. CinePaint supports an 16-bit throughout colour managed workflow for photographers and printers, including CIE*Lab and CMYK editing. creation from bracketed exposures is easy.

The current version (Nov.12, 2005), is 0.20.1. It is available for Operating Systems: All 32-bit MS Windows (95/98/NT/2000/XP), All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), Linux, OS X, SGI IRIX . The CinePaint developers have rejected the GIMP library GEGL, and have opted for a less complex system. As an additional simplification, images will simply be stored in linear arrays instead of the complex and error-prone tiled format used by GIMP.

Glasgow, a complete new code architecture for CinePaint, will make a new Windows version possible. The Glasgow effort is FLTK based.

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