dibuja is a simple to use paint program like Paintbrush for Mac or classic MS Paint, but for Linux.
Easily create drawings and edit images. Add arrows, text, and effects to your drawings and pictures, or crop and resize your images.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Drawing tools
- Lines.
- Arrows.
- Rectangles.
- Ellipses.
- Pencil.
- Text.
- Brushes.
- Flood fill.
- Rounded rectangles.
- Polygon.
- Polylines.
- Curves.
- Rectangular Selection.
- Elliptical Selection.
- Freehand Selection.
- Selection:
- Crop to selection.
- Use selection as brush.
- Square & circle from corner.
- Undo/Redo
- Zoom in/out:
- Pixel editor style zoom in
- Effects (uses gegl):
- Grayscale.
- Invert.
- Insta Brannan (Instagram like effect).
- Insta 1977 (Instagram like effect).
- Brightness/contrast.
- Gauss blur.
- Posterize.
- Threshold.
- Vignette.
- Pixelize.
- Emboss.
- Saturation/Hue.
- Others can be added.
- Editable color palette.
- Image:
- Copy / Paste.
- Flip horizontally / vertically.
- Rotate.
- Custom rotate.
- Resize.
- Scale.
- Paste from file.
- Desktop capture.
- Antialiasing.
- File Formats:
- Whatever gdk pixbuf loaders you have installed
Website: launchpad.net/dibuja
Support:
Developer: jbal
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

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