[CREATE] Announcement : CinePaint 0.22-0

Kai-Uwe Behrmann ku.b at gmx.de
Fri Apr 6 01:33:04 PDT 2007


The sources of Gtk CinePaint 0.22-0 are released on SourceForge.
Version 0.22-0 is a major release maintaining the legacy code and 
adding many new features. This release is designed for distribution.


General:
CinePaint is the popular motion picture deep colour paint and retouching 
program.
It features a flipbook, layer and channels handling, HDR creation from 
bracketed exposures, support for many file formats like Cineon, OpenEXR, 
Tiff and camera raw file and colour management tools like Cmyk/Lab 
support, 16-bit printing with Gutenprint and 3D colour and ICC profile 
visualisation.

Future:
CinePaint developers continue to maintain this legacy architecture until 
the future Glasgow architecture is complete (in 2006). For info on 
Glasgow:

  http://cinepaint.bigasterisk.com/GlasgowDocumentation


New Features (0.22-0):
o native OpenEXR Half sample type substitutes the older RnH 16-bit float
o load/save multilayerd OpenEXR files like from Blender
o load/save 16-bit Half Tiff's
o precise drawing with tablet - thanks to Tino Schwarze for hardware
o retuning of pencil and brush paint tools
o speedup in gamma-expose and Brightness/Contrast Adjustments - 
    Bradley A. Hare <sf:bradhare>
o dynamic colour visualisation in ICC Examin plug-in
o UTF-8 support through Gtk2
o UFRaw plug-in ready
o CMS defaults to Oyranos


Bugfixes:
o see Change Log 
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=492079&group_id=75029


Contributors:
o Bradley A. Hare <sf:bradhare> - speedup in some tools
o Hartmut Sbosny - Bracketing to HDR plug-in improvements
o Alan Horkana - string fix
o Kai-Uwe Behrmann - all unnamed changes
o many people reporting bugs


Download:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=75029&package_id=76680&release_id=492079

Add-ons:
o Gutenprint http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net
o Oyranos    http://www.oyranos.org


Format changes:
CinePains GBR brush format changes, in that it saves new brushes allways 
in Half precision marking the type field with 51. Old CinePaint brushes 
are still supported.


kind regards
Kai-Uwe Behrmann
--
developing for colour management 
www.behrmann.name + www.oyranos.org + www.cinepaint.org



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