CinePaint(1) Version-$VERSION CinePaint(1)NAME
CinePaint - 32-bit image painting and retouching
SYNOPSIScinepaint [option ...] [files ...]
DESCRIPTION
CinePaint is different from other painting tools because it supports
deep color depth image formats up to 32-bit per channel deep. For com‐
parison, GIMP is limited 8-bit, and Photoshop to 16-bit. To avoid bit
depth confusion, note that 48-bit scanners are 16-bit per channel and
24-bit monitors are 8-bit per channel. Like with audio, extra image
bits can hold higher fidelity.
CinePaint supports high fidelity image formats such as 32-bit TIFF,
10-bit log Cineon, and 16-bit half float OpenEXR. It also supports less
exotic formats such as JPEG, GIF and PNG. For historical reasons, Cine‐
Paint's native format is 16-bit XCF, a variant of the GIMP format.
Internally, CinePaint works in 8-bit unsigned, 16-bit unsigned, 16-bit
binary fixed point, 16-bit chopped float, or 32-bit IEEE float. Support
for 16-bit half float is coming.
CinePaint includes a built-in flipbook for playback of image sequences.
It does not yet support audio playback or synchronized 24fps playback.
It doesn't yet support editing, DV, M-JPEG, AVI, Quicktime, or MPEG.
CinePaint runs on all popular flavors of Linux and on Mac OS X as an
X11 application. A native Mac Aqua port of CinePaint is in development.
The Windows port of CinePaint is currently broken, but may be available
again in 2005.
OPTIONS
From cinepaint--help
Usage: cinepaint [option ...] [files ...] Valid options are:
-h --help Output this help.
-v --version Output version info.
-b --batch <commands> Run in batch mode.
-n --no-interface Run without a user interface.
--no-data Do not load patterns, gradients, palettes,
brushes.
--verbose Show startup messages.
--no-splash Do not show the startup window.
--no-splash-image Do not add an image to the startup window.
--no-shm Do not use shared memory between GIMP and its
plugins.
--no-xshm Do not use the X Shared Memory extension.
--console-messages Display warnings to console instead of a dia‐
log box.
--debug-handlers Enable debugging signal handlers.
--display <display> Use the designated X display.
The no-interface mode has never worked, but a new architecture called
img_img is under development to provide headless operation.
ENVIRONMENT
DISPLAY - default host and display number.
XENVIRONMENT - name of a resource file that overrides the global
resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property
FILES
$PREFIX/bin/cinepaint - program
$HOME/.cinepaint - user configuration/data
$PREFIX/lib/cinepaint/$VERSION - plug-ins, etc.
$PREFIX/share/cinepaint/$VERSION - configuration/data
gtkrc - GTK config settings
menurc - keybindings
pluginrc - plugin initialization values
$HOME/.cinepaint/tmp - temp space default
brushes - brush files
palettes - palette files
patterns - pattern files
gradients - gradient files
scripts - scripts used in Script-Fu
gflares - gflare files
gfig - gfig files
SEE ALSOCOPYRIGHT
CinePaint was originally based on GIMP 1.0.4, but has had many indepen‐
dent contributions and has adopted code from other open source
projects. This code is a mixture of GPL, LGPL and BSD licenses. Copy‐
rights are to the original authors, which are many.
For information about open source licenses see www.opensource.org.
SUGGESTIONS AND BUG REPORTS
Report bugs or feature suggestions to the mailing list at cine‐
paint-developers@lists.sourceforge.net or the online bug-tracking sys‐
tem available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cinepaint/. Anyone can
post to the developers list, but posting to the bug-tracker requires
logging into SourceForge. Patches are welcome and can be submitted to
the SourceForge site.
When reporting bugs please include description, instructions to repro‐
duce the bug, version number of CinePaint and OS version.
OTHER INFO
CinePaint began in 1998 as a project sponsored by motion picture tech‐
nology company Silicon Grail (later acquired by Apple) and visual
effects studio Rhythm & Hues. The goal was to add deep paint to GIMP.
By 2000 a CVS branch of GIMP known as Film Gimp offered that feature.
GIMP had begun in 1995 as a class project at the University of Califor‐
nia Berkeley, but the original student developers left GIMP after grad‐
uation. The GIMP student effort was mostly taken over by hackers who
wanted to further the GNU cause. In 2000 the GIMP hackers and Silicon
Grail ceased work on the Hollywood-based development of GIMP. Although
everyone at GIMP (mostly based in Germany) thought it was dead, Film
Gimp development continued independently in Hollywood at Rhythm & Hues
and then spread to Sony Pictures Imageworks.
On July 4, 2002, Film Gimp was released to the general public on
SourceForge. Many more developers joined the project. A year later the
project was renamed CinePaint. The current developers of CinePaint have
never had any affiliation with the GIMP project.
www.cinepaint.org
AUTHORS
Programmers at Rhythm & Hues, Sony Pictures Imageworks, DreamWorks,
ILM, other companies, and universities have contributed to CinePaint's
development.
For a list of authors see www.cinepaint.org.
Robin Rowe
CinePaint project leader
<Robin.Rowe@MovieEditor.com>
Robin.Rowe@MovieEditor.com January 1, 2005 CinePaint(1)
