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HairyWill · Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 2946 Location: Southampton, UK

One of the nice features about OSS development is how close you can get to the developers. Dmitry Groshev the mtPaint maintainer is currently looking for areas to focus on in the next development branch.

If you have any suggestions for features or improvements to mtPaint it would be really good to hear them.

I've never quite understood how mtPaint manages to cram so much into such a small package.To find out more about mtPaint, use it and read here.

J-Bob · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 283 Location: Canada

my suggestion would be to be able to copy between different prgrams and mtpaint, and between different mtpaint windows. if he does this, he might have something that could take on the gimp on his hands.

as that's the only reason i use the gimp, is because of that.

Flash · Posted: Sat 27 Dec 2008, 22:47 Post subject:

It would be great if mtPaint could show the Exif metadata from my digital camera's pictures. Smile

Lobster · Posted: Sun 28 Dec 2008, 00:51 Post subject:

use a generic interface Smile

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=147130&search_id=947759647#147130

Fossil · Posted: Sun 28 Dec 2008, 06:53 Post subject:

Batch resize in standard formats - 640, 800, 1024, etc. Also batch enhance, lighten/darken, contrast/gamma.
For what it's worth, I much prefer manipulating images in mtPaint to Fottox which, by comparison, is so slow on an old machine with 256 megs of ram.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 28 Dec 2008, 07:30 Post subject:

Something which might look like
http://www.pixlr.com/editor/
or
http://www.splashup.com/
or
plus a stationary colour wheel under the layers,
and use these icons, so people might know what they are
http://tango.freedesktop.org/ArtLibreSet
Plus when you click file/save or file/save as it saves the complete picture including all the layers, It should ask to have the layers flattened.
the layers window should be opened automatically with the colour wheel and be a part of the main application and the working area should be in the middle, Like the picture piclr
Actually he did want some icons before, But I never had time to design them, If anyone has time, maybe post some icons that you built yourself, or that are open sourced and provide the links to the orginal icons, so the author may be contacted if needed.
Also whats up with the 2 window view, that confusing and really you just need 1 window with layers.If you wanted another window just open another mtpaint Smile

and copy and paste between them

ttuuxxx

droope · Joined: 31 Jul 2008 Posts: 811 Location: Uruguay, Mercedes

My suggestion is the same as Bob, that I can't for example cut my selection and then paste it into a new window... Sad

That sucks really really badly. All in all, it's a nice program

Aronzak · Joined: 29 Dec 2008 Posts: 36 Location: Sydney

I'd suggest having a simple mode/ advanced mode. That way it would be easier to use for someone that has never used it before, but would still have a lot of features.

wjaguar · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 359

smokey01 · Posted: Wed 31 Dec 2008, 06:23 Post subject:

I would really like to view next and previous image in the current directory.

If it can already do this, please tell me how.

I wouldn't like to see too many changes as I think mtPaint is brilliant. I use it on a daily basis.

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6759 Location: hobart

I've uploaded a .pet of mtpaint v3.29 here

Aronzak · Joined: 29 Dec 2008 Posts: 36 Location: Sydney

Flash · Posted: Wed 31 Dec 2008, 22:13 Post subject:

wjaguar · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 359

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6759 Location: hobart

If it's exiv2 that's required, it's available here.