AzPainter is a full color painting software for Linux.
It’s a lightweight tool with tablet pressure support, and provides basic functions such as selection, layers, filters.
The software uses an original graphic toollkit called Mlib. It’s extremely lightweight.
Key Features
- Extremely fast and frugal on system resources.
- Optimized user interface designed for efficient painting and drawing workflow.
- Support for 16-bit color images with transparency (RGBA)
- Automatic brush size adjustment that’s dependent on tablet pen pressure.
- Many artistic filters.
- Good range of selection tools.
- Support for many third-party image formats including PSD, PNG, JPG and more.
Website: azelpg.gitlab.io/azsky2/soft/azpainter.html
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Developer: Azel
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

AzPainter is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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