CinePaint is a FREE deep paint image retouching tool that supports higher color fidelity than ordinary painting tools.

With CinePaint you can retouch feature films and in pro photography. It opens high fidelity image file formats such as DPX, 16-bit TIFF, and OpenEXR, and conventional formats like JPEG and PNG. It has a flipbook for movie playback of image sequences in RAM and supports 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit color channels, HDR and CMS.

It is mostly used of professionals for motion picture frame-by-frame retouching, dirt removal, wire rig removal; render repair, background plates, and painting 3D model textures. It’s been used on many feature films, including The Last Samurai where it was used to add flying arrows.

CinePaint can be used also of professional photographers. CinePaint can import bracketed HDR exposures. It has gallery-quality 16-bit per channel color printing with GutenPrint. CinePaint’s high dynamic range is crucial with B&W still photography, where images only have a single channel.

Link: www.cinepaint.org

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