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CinePaint(1)                   Version-$VERSION                   CinePaint(1)

NAME
       CinePaint - 32-bit image painting and retouching

SYNOPSIS
       cinepaint [option ...] [files ...]

DESCRIPTION
       CinePaint is different from other painting tools because it supports
       deep color depth image formats up to 32-bit per channel deep. For
       comparison, GIMP is limited 8-bit, and Photoshop to 16-bit. To avoid
       bit depth confusion, note that 48-bit scanners are 16-bit per channel
       and 24-bit monitors are 8-bit per channel. Like with audio, extra image
       bits can hold higher fidelity.

       CinePaint supports high fidelity image formats such as 32-bit TIFF,
       10-bit log Cineon, and 16-bit half float OpenEXR. It also supports less
       exotic formats such as JPEG, GIF and PNG. For historical reasons,
       CinePaint's native format is 16-bit XCF, a variant of the GIMP format.
       Internally, CinePaint works in 8-bit unsigned, 16-bit unsigned, 16-bit
       binary fixed point, 16-bit chopped float, or 32-bit IEEE float. Support
       for 16-bit half float is coming.

       CinePaint includes a built-in flipbook for playback of image sequences.
       It does not yet support audio playback or synchronized 24fps playback.
       It doesn't yet support editing, DV, M-JPEG, AVI, Quicktime, or MPEG.

       CinePaint runs on all popular flavors of Linux and on Mac OS X as an
       X11 application. A native Mac Aqua port of CinePaint is in development.
       The Windows port of CinePaint is currently broken, but may be available
       again in 2005.

OPTIONS
       From cinepaint --help

       Usage: cinepaint [option ...] [files ...] Valid options are:
         -h --help              Output this help.
         -v --version           Output version info.
         -b --batch <commands>  Run in batch mode.
         -n --no-interface      Run without a user interface.
         --no-data              Do not load patterns, gradients, palettes,
       brushes.
         --verbose              Show startup messages.
         --no-splash            Do not show the startup window.
         --no-splash-image      Do not add an image to the startup window.
         --no-shm               Do not use shared memory between GIMP and its
       plugins.
         --no-xshm              Do not use the X Shared Memory extension.
         --console-messages     Display warnings to console instead of a
       dialog box.
         --debug-handlers       Enable debugging signal handlers.
         --display <display>    Use the designated X display.

       The no-interface mode has never worked, but a new architecture called
       img_img is under development to provide headless operation.

ENVIRONMENT
       DISPLAY - default host and display number.

       XENVIRONMENT - name of a resource file that overrides the global
       resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property

FILES
       $PREFIX/bin/cinepaint - program

       $HOME/.cinepaint - user configuration/data

       $PREFIX/lib/cinepaint/$VERSION - plug-ins, etc.

       $PREFIX/share/cinepaint/$VERSION - configuration/data

       gtkrc - GTK config settings

       menurc - keybindings

       pluginrc - plugin initialization values

       $HOME/.cinepaint/tmp - temp space default

       brushes - brush files

       palettes - palette files

       patterns - pattern files

       gradients - gradient files

       scripts - scripts used in Script-Fu

       gflares - gflare files

       gfig - gfig files

SEE ALSO
COPYRIGHT
       CinePaint was originally based on GIMP 1.0.4, but has had many
       independent contributions and has adopted code from other open source
       projects. This code is a mixture of GPL, LGPL and BSD licenses.
       Copyrights are to the original authors, which are many.

       For information about open source licenses see www.opensource.org.

SUGGESTIONS AND BUG REPORTS
       Report bugs or feature suggestions to the mailing list at
       cinepaint-developers@lists.sourceforge.net or the online bug-tracking
       system available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cinepaint/. Anyone
       can post to the developers list, but posting to the bug-tracker
       requires logging into SourceForge. Patches are welcome and can be
       submitted to the SourceForge site.

       When reporting bugs please include description, instructions to
       reproduce the bug, version number of CinePaint and OS version.

OTHER INFO
       CinePaint began in 1998 as a project sponsored by motion picture
       technology company Silicon Grail (later acquired by Apple) and visual
       effects studio Rhythm & Hues. The goal was to add deep paint to GIMP.
       By 2000 a CVS branch of GIMP known as Film Gimp offered that feature.

       GIMP had begun in 1995 as a class project at the University of
       California Berkeley, but the original student developers left GIMP
       after graduation. The GIMP student effort was mostly taken over by
       hackers who wanted to further the GNU cause. In 2000 the GIMP hackers
       and Silicon Grail ceased work on the Hollywood-based development of
       GIMP. Although everyone at GIMP (mostly based in Germany) thought it
       was dead, Film Gimp development continued independently in Hollywood at
       Rhythm & Hues and then spread to Sony Pictures Imageworks.

       On July 4, 2002, Film Gimp was released to the general public on
       SourceForge. Many more developers joined the project. A year later the
       project was renamed CinePaint. The current developers of CinePaint have
       never had any affiliation with the GIMP project.

       www.cinepaint.org

AUTHORS
       Programmers at Rhythm & Hues, Sony Pictures Imageworks, DreamWorks,
       ILM, other companies, and universities have contributed to CinePaint's
       development.

       For a list of authors see www.cinepaint.org.

       Robin Rowe

       CinePaint project leader

       <Robin.Rowe@MovieEditor.com>

Robin.Rowe@MovieEditor.com      January 1, 2005                   CinePaint(1)