EasyPaint

EasyPaint is a simple graphics painting program. This program is like MS Paint, but nice, lightweight and cross-platform. The Makefile in this fork is specifically for MacOS, but it can be adapted for any OS since QT is a cross-platform framework.

EasyPaint is a part of QtDesktop project and Razor-qt's 3rd party applications.

Changes

• Uses GNU make
• Ported to QT 6
• Pretty UI
• Supports alpha in colors

Installing

Install EasyPaint (simplified as paint.app for easier path & spotlight) using brew and GNU make

brew install qt
make clean macbundle

I've also provided paint.app in releases, but brew install qt is currently mandatory.

Usage tip

Use Command + Control + Shift + 4 to screengrab into your clipboard, then Command + V to paste. Couple with Command + N for a quick new canvas if required.

Wishlist

It's my first project but I intend to do as many of these as possbile.

• Escape button should deselect
• Some way to use simple transform features on the selection
  • Rotation
  • Scaling
  • Tilting
• Alpha in color picker
  • Alpha should affect fill operations
  • Color Picker should show blended color
  • Brush should not be dotty in alpha mode
• Delete button should set the selection to color 2
• Add visual grid option, with custom grid unit
  • A smart default grid unit should be chosen
• Versatile selection movement (arrows, shift, alt, control)
  • Selection is visible while moving
  • Arrows, move pixel at a time
  • Arrows and Shift, move based on flat 'grid unit' size (no need for velocity)
  • Shift and mouse, move snapped to axis
  • Control and mouse, move copy
  • Control Shift and mouse, axis-snapped move copy
  • Alt and mouse, 'drag move' copy (redraw the edge pixels as the selection is dragged)
  • Alt Shift and mouse, axis-snapped 'drag move' copy
• Arrowhead options for line tool
• Line tool should snap to horizontal and vertical axis if shift is pressed
• Default canvas and window size should be smarter
• New canvas size should be prefilled based on the active view
• Command A should select all
• Rotate should function on selection, not canvas
• Pencil and Eraser should have a 'grid unit' size option
• Vertical and Horizontal mirror options (on selection)
• Bundle separate scripts to convert multipage PDF -> PNG and back (convenience only)
  • Consider making it a tool instead of conveience scripts (tool to save into multiple files with open and dest prompts)
  • Tool to export to PDF with configurable ghostscript parts, optimised defaults
• Info about modifier button actions in hover tooltips
• Info about page <-> DPI <-> A4 in both PDF export and new.. options
• Control click with selection makes custom selection area polygon
• Tool to recolor to sharp black and white from selection
• Tool to recolor black to custom from selection
• Option to crop canvas to selection in Canvas size tool
• Canvas size changes should reflect in undo history
• Display canvas in fullscreen, preferences for 'fill' (shortest edge), 'fit' (longest), 'resize' (stretch), or '100% center' (black border aligned center)
  • Consider allowing current brush primary and secondary pair while in fullscreen
  • Consider allowing text shortcut while in fullscreen
• Tool to play gif in fullscreen
• Color picker selection should reflect in undo history
  • Changing color using swatches should also add to undo history
  • bug: Changing colors before using the canvas adds to undo history but can't be undone until some change is made to the canvas - mIsEdited?
  • unchecked: Transparent background handling - if a png with no background is loaded, what happens to fill and blended brush
• Better icons and toolbar frames - remove pencil from icons, hovering changes color and displays multiline tooltip with shortcut and modifier options
• Better tabs - left align and square
• Better default for brush size, based on DPI
• Rework the curve tool to be usable
• bug: Closing, clicking save, then canceling should not close without saving
• Right click should be meaningful on swatch, color picker and fill
• Ellipse and Rect tools should observe Shift for perfect shapes and swatches for fill
  • Swatches should contain a 'no fill' option that makes certain instruments behave differently
  • Eraser and delete should default to white if 'no fill' is selected
• Command click on swatches should allow for color choosing to swatch color
  • Shift click on swatch should replace/blend all secondary color with swatch color
• Tool to 'grow' canvas, by padding edges
• Button to swap swatch color

License

EasyPaint by Gr1N was originally distributed under the MIT license. I haven't spent enough time on licensing and naming to be sure that this repo is A-OK. Please let me know if there's anything I should fix.