I've recently downloaded mypaint and i could use the freehand, idk what happened but i can no longer use it. I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it but it doesnt work, I can use the other things there. Can someone help, thanks.

Hi everyone, need help with stuff related to MyPaint drawing program and sketch files(.ora files). tysm

Hi my mypaint is only drawing straight likes of various lengths when I try using brushes. How do I make it so I can paint regularly? Thanks

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New mixed media artwork by me, the character has been entirely made with MyPaint 1.0

hello I used to be a user of mypaint.

The main test releases are 0.71 to 1.0.0.It is mainly to test file size, resource consumption, and optimization stability of drawing software.

Let me start with my thoughts.

I think so.Good software should not change version numbers.Mistaking it for a newer game

Or add unnecessary things, leading to higher consumption.You CAN MAKE SOFTWARE files SMALLER and USE less memory.Isn't that a great thing?

mypaint 0.71 ~ 1.0 windows ram +mb test

Version 0.71 is the version with the lowest memory footprint of mypaint.

But there are drawbacks.The bug is that all tool columns pop up in the screen window.Normally it is in the drawing software.In addition, this version does not support "pen pressure".

Version 0.8.0, and version 1.0.0, I think are the lowest memory consumption versions of mypaint.It occupies about 51.000kb.These two versions also represent a single interface.One is the old interface, one is the new interface.

But the biggest problem with both versions is that.Blank key movement will produce a ton of stucktons, which will not move the canvas naturally.

Also, let's move on to version 1.2.0 of mypaint.In this version the software becomes heavier, bloated, and has a higher memory footprint....Can you imagine the file size taking up 86.5mb?As a result, the software starts more slowly.

The file size of the software keeps increasing, it seems to become a hodgepodge, the developers have not optimized this place, 80mb...90mb.... 100mb so for that reason.I moved to Mischief and am very happy with it, everything is like mypaint originally looked, better and more polished.

Hey y’all. Been having issues with trying to figure out how to get the pressure sensitivity to work on my Surface Studio laptop and had the same issues with the previous laptop I had, which was a Surface Pro 4. How do I enable it for the laptop with the Surface Pen?

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When I try drawing with a brush, it draws on the canvas even when I'm not clicking or touching my screen. Moving my mouse around or hovering over my screen draws on the canvas. What setting do I adjust to fix this?

I haven't seen any updates in almost 2 years now. Been hoping for a bunch of bug fixes and better support but at this point I might be moving on.

Would love to hear news to the contrary

Hey everyone, I am new to art and mypaint. I was wondering if people could share their tips/recommendations on shading/lighting. Ie, how do you get the effect, what brushes they use, etc.

Does MyPaint have a grid lines tool like MsPaint?

Does MyPaint have grid lines tool like MsPaint?

Where are the settings for pen pressure, for opacity and size at the same time?

Hi everyone, I'm having a problem with exporting png files.

I exported seven backgrounds, just solid colors on a 1000 x 1000 pixel canvas, but when I exported the eighth, there was nothing in the folder. I tried changing the color and exporting again to no avail.

Please help! Have so much to export!

UPDATE: I restarted the program and I can export again.

Can anyone help me with this? can barely find any info about this

Does wacom one tablet (no display) support mypaint on Linux? I have Pop OS 20.04, and I'm thinking of purchasing a wacom one tablet. If it isn't supported, what is a viable alternative?

Hi,

I used to play around with MyPaint years ago and installed it again recently. I noticed there are some missing icons on the top tool bar, showing red with stop sign symbol. I've installed all the packages related to MyPaint that I can find.

One more question, didn't the older MyPaint have Brushes in a Palette on the left? It seems to be on the toolbar on the bottom. I'd like to get rid of the bottom toolbar and have Brushes back on the left, is that possible?

Thank you.

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Missing icons?

What I am missing a lot in MyPaint is a way to select some part of a layer and delete it. Using an eraser and having to adjust its size every time feels very cumbersome.

Is there any better way to achieve this? Thanks!

Anyone have a good cheat sheet for MyPaint? I'm using a monoprice display which has the pressure sensitive pen and a single button. Drawing is good but something to help with knowing the keyboard actions would be good.

Hey I'm an artist that has been doing traditional art with mainly copic markers for around 2 years and just recently got a drawing tablet for Christmas, is there a way to emulate something similar to a marker on my paint. I've tried making the paint smaller but my pen is pressure sensitive so I have press down hard all the time to get the same look.

I've been using MyPaint for years, which doesn't amount to much as I don't draw for months at a time. But when I do, I love Mypaint. Haven't tried version 2 yet but I just love how simple MyPaint is to use, the focus on organic analog painting, the infinite canvas, and the diverse and fun brushes.

I've never interacted with the community and most of my drawings are random sketches that I immediately delete, lol. So I thought I ought to at least say aloud that I absolutely love this program!

Hi All, I am not sure of the best place to ask these questions (elaboration later) so I am starting with the three subreddits for programs that have implemented this format. (Krita, Gimp, Mypaint)

For a while I was struggling with trying to work with the PSD file format for certain personal projects that involved client-agnostic sharing of graphics source files. It became frustrating and so I ended up looking for similar alternatives which ended up leading to discovery of ORA format.

Since then I have found that the standard does not seem to have a current maintainer, and there were some additional features I was looking to add and improve. As the changes became more significant, I spoke to some folks on the Krita chat channels and it was suggested that I query the user population to determine if the changes are amicable. Note that I am willing do do the implementation (I have already done some of it as WIP merge requests), this is more just about what people would desire in the format.

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• Possibility to specify both a blending and compositing operator for one layer. The intent here is to support something like Photoshop's 'clip layers'. In the current standard, a layer can be either clipped (with the attribute 'svg:src-atop') or blended (with something like 'svg:multiply'). I have worked with a few artworks which I was not able to convert to ORA format without duplicating a layer to both clip and blend it, and this is obviously not desirable. One question is, is it worth supporting one composite and one blend in general, or should we *only* support svg:src-atop (clip layer). Currently, Krita only supports clip layer in tandem with a blend mode (by using the 'alpha inherit' property on a layer) Gimp supports a handful of composite modes along with a blend mode (clip to layer, clip to backdrop, intersection, and union). Mypaint seems to straight-up support exactly what ORA supports (so no support for this feature yet, but might be willing to if the spec changed) I would like to aim to support *at least* an attribute for svg:src-atop mode, plus a blend mode, but possibly we could also support any composite mode + any blend mode.
• Vector/Text layers. This is a major split in design between many of the programs that interact with ORA format. Krita has in general full support for text and svg / vector elements. Gimp supports text vectors, but not svg in general. Mypaint supports neither. There are a few possible solutions to this. Programs may simply ignore vectors if they can not support them. Another solution would be to store both a svg version and raster version of vector layers, so that raster-only programs could still render these layers, but the information would overwrite the vector if they saved the file this way. A side benefit of this could be that programs like InkScape would also be able to adopt ORA format support with some meaning, and allow interchange between inkscape and gimp / krita.
• UUID attribute. This is a more minor change, which would allow unique identification of layers that have been loaded / saved between multiple programs, even when the supported naming schemes are not the same. (For example, in GIMP duplicate layer names are not supported, but they are in Krita. With persistent UUIDs there would be some unchanging identifier for the layer over many edits, which is useful to develop a good ORA library / API)

Overall I am interested in taking some ownership of the maintenance and implementation of this standard, if it is desired. I am looking to determine which features would be useful to the most people in an interchange format. I appreciate any feedback you can provide! ^_^