[News] Pinta 1.2 released – Install Instructions

Pinta is a free, open source drawing/editing program modeled after Paint.NET. Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on Linux, Mac, and Windows.

New Features in Pinta 4.2 :

• Individual layers can now be rotated arbitrarily
• Added specific mouse cursors for tools (pencil, paintbucket, etc)
• Autocrop of image
• Gradient tool now takes advantage of multiple cores to speed up rendering time
• Added image preview to the images pad
• (#791161) Added white text background option
• (#892690) Show image previews in the Open File dialog

How to install :

For Ubuntu 11.10 :

Open the terminal and run the following commands :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pinta-maintainers/pinta-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pinta

For Ubuntu 12.04 :

Download the following package and double click it to install Pinta 1.2 .

Pinta 1.2 Deb Package