Textual Paint is a TUI (Text User Interface) image editor, inspired by MS Paint.
It’s built with Textual, a Rapid Application Development framework for Python.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Open and save images.
- Fancy file dialogs.
- Drag and drop files to open.
- Warnings when overwriting an existing file, or closing with unsaved changes.
- Auto-saves a temporary .ans~ backup file alongside the file you’re editing, for crash recovery.
- Edits ANSI art and raster images and more.
- All tools from MS Paint: Free-Form Select, Select, Eraser/Color Eraser, Fill With Color, Pick Color, Magnifier, Pencil, Brush, Airbrush, Text, Line, Curve, Rectangle, Polygon, Ellipse, and Rounded Rectangle.
- Color palette.
- Efficient screen updates and undo/redo history, by tracking regions affected by each action.
- Use over SSH.
- Brush previews.
- Status bar.
- Menu bar.
- Keyboard shortcuts.
- Nearly every command from MS Paint is supported, including fun ones like:
- Flip/Rotate.
- Stretch/Skew.
- Edit Colors.
- Set As Wallpaper (Tiled/Centered).
- Dark mode.
- Zooming works with text, despite running in the terminal.
- International support – 26 languages: Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, and Simplified Chinese.
Website: github.com/1j01/textual-paint
Support:
Developer: Isaiah Odhner
License: MIT License
Textual Paint is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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