Initial reaction to the new release of MyPaint has been overwhelmingly positive, despite it only being less than a week old. This is the first significant release of MyPaint since the version 1.2 release over four years ago and features a plethora of improved tools and new features.

Users should follow their Linux distributions recommended procedures if they want to create a desktop shortcut or menu entry for MyPaint 2.0. Once you’ve set the permissions and made the MyPaint 2.0 AppImage executable, double-click the file to run. Set Access to Read & Write and check the Allow this file to run as a program checkbox. In your file browser, right-click the MyPaint-v2.0.0.AppImage file and select Properties. Once you download the file, you must change the file permissions and mark it executable to run it.

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The beauty and genius of AppImages are that users need only the application, make it executable, and run it. The best option for users wanting to install and try out MyPaint 2.0 is to download the AppImage from. Running MyPaint 2.0 on Linuxīecause it’s so new, it’s unlikely that your Linux distro will yet have MyPaint 2.0 in their repositories, if ever.

Expanded flood fill functionality, including gap detection, feather, offset and moreįor a detailed list of the changes in MyPaint 2.0, please read the release announcement.

Additional symmetry modes, including a snowflake, rotational, vertical+horizontal, and verticle.

Brushstrokes dependent on view zoom and zoom rotation.

New brush inputs, including base radius, attack angle, gridmap x/y, direction 360, and barrel rotation.

Linear compositing and spectral blending (pigment).

New brush settings, including offsets, posterize, pigment, gridmap, and additional smudge settings.

Besides support for Python 3 (Python 2 still supported, too), new brush parameters, and new layer mode, MyPaint v2.0 has a plethora of other changes, including:

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