Our Paint

A Natural Painting Program

Intuitive digital art, Our Paint makes you feel right at home.

Infinite Canvas^*1

Pick up your pen and start making art. Draw first, adjust cropping at any time!
Built-in present for ISO/DIN A/B/Chinese traditional type paper sizes, with cropping utility tools that takes margin/padding, vertical/horizontal layout and two page spread references into account.

*1: Internally limited to 100000*100000px

True Pigment

Dual component pigment canvas enables accurate color mixing in with both opaque and transparent colors.
Most flexible color mixing algorithm so far in open source digital painting programs^*2

Full pixel dual component pigment canvas works by storing spectral reflectance and transmittance of pigment into Sub-pixels, and when forming the final image, those pixels are combined to generate a physically accurate RGB value for display.

*2: Based on Yiming's WellObserve studio internal testing, 2025

Opaque and transparencies, at the same time.

Use opaque color for impasto, or glazing over with transparencies, any process, any time.

Opaque Overlay

Transparent Overlay

Fresh out of tube, maybe add water too.

Different reflectance behaviour for dense/diluted colors, enjoy the hue shifts as you mix.

Flexible lighting.

Allow different light source and exposure control of the image. Fine tune the look till you are satisfied.

Node-Based Brush Engine

First in industry^*3 to enable full node-based control of brush dabs.
Support pressure-sensitive input devices via libwacom / WinTab / WindowsInk. Pressure, Tilt, Twist^*4 axis are supported.
Iterative and branched control logic.

*3: Based on Yiming's WellObserve studio internal testing, 2025

*4: Not all pressure-sensitive input devices support pen tilt and twist axis.

Accurate Color Management

Entire canvas and interface is color-managed^*5*6, with option to choose from sRGB / AdobeRGB 1998 Compatible / D65 P3 color spaces for both monitors and canvas color values^*7.
One click real-time CMYK soft proofing for all supported display and canvas color spaces. Allow user imported CMYK icc/icm color profiles.
Support reading EDID information from connected monitor and use monitor specified color space.^*8

*5: Linux: X11 only, require the entire desktop to output entire RGB range / is in sRGB.
*6: Windows: require the entire desktop to output entire RGB range / is in sRGB.
*7: Canvas pixel value color space choice only available in RGB canvas mode.
*8: Linux only. Not all monitors report correct color space info with their EDID.

A piece of artistic freedom.

Our Paint is a free application^*9. Download now:

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*9: Our Paint is Developed by Wu Yiming and licensed under GNU GPL v3 or later for individuals.
For commercial licensing, customization and technical support, contact Yiming for details.