Made my own paint program... (BETA RELEASED!!)

[skull3k3]

^ Good luck with that, basic Java when i did it a month or two was very weird so i will stay with PHP for the moment :D

 

Keep us up to date with the progress and new ideas u get

[kingcomet32]

thats sick i wish i knew how to make a program this is gunna be a reallll good program once you add a couple more advance tools to it like zoom and crop

[venomai]

Hey folks, I'm still here and I've recently been thinking about the new design for Picto. As I've said, it will be a lightweight program intended purely for digital painting. It will be aimed at beginners and mainly for use in communities (like TIF and RSC graphic communities).

 

 

 

Here is the project page which will be the main host for Picto:

 

http://code.google.com/p/picto/

 

 

 

Here's a quick summary of how I'm going to design the next release.

 

 

 

Planned Features:

 

- very lightweight and cross-platform

- comes in applet and application form (can be a downloadable as well)

- pressure sensitivity support for tablets in Linux and Windows (can be turned off; Mac will come later)

- eyedropper tool (hotkey ALT like in Photoshop)

- use up to 5 custom brush tools, each with:

- name

- texture (soft, spatter, regular, etc)

- smudge (on/off)

- opacity

- size

- an eraser tool (same as brush but clears the area)

- use up to 5 layers, each with:

- name

- visibility (show/hide)

- opacity

- up to 10 "snapshots" of the progress can be taken for later review (usually 25% size)

- snapshots, layers and brush settings can be saved in the Picto file format

- up to 50 history states undo/redo

- (hopefully) support for zoom, copy/paste, transforming individual layers, different document sizes

 

 

 

I'm thinking of using SwingX to get a nice background blur feature for dialogs:

 

http://www.curious-creature.org/2007/08 ... over-2007/

 

 

 

Also, I was planning on having an "Export Snapshots" feature that would automatically pack any saved progress like so: (just a quick example)

 

 

 

 

What Features will NOT be in Picto?

 

- No shape tools (eg: rectangle/ellipse)

- No dashed brush tool

- No paths/vector tools

[venomai]

Also, the file format will look something like this:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>




















              isSmudge="true"

              opacity="0.25"

              diameter="10">

...

























...





...





...





...





...

[pryomancer]

=D>

 

 

 

Hurry up and get all these features coming. :P

[Punc]

The new update list sounds very good, goodluck with it :)

 

I'll check the link you gave once in a while, to see how it's coming along.

[Lightshayde]

OH man, that's so cool...

 

My father programs in Java for a living, and is planning to teach me, but hasn't gotten around to it yet. #-o

 

OK, back on track.

 

That is so cool, i'm looking forward to trying it out.

[Latinoking]

Wow this program is free and useful!

 

 

 

Great to those people who use Gimp or Paint.net

[4be2jue]

 

 

 

 

 

this a great tool i have never bothered to use paint or gimp

 

but this is very easy to get to grips with the above is about 20 mins work i think after working a while with the program you could quite easy get to grips with it.

 

great tool well done. i like it very much =D>

[Pureleader18]

this looks really neat. well done dude :D

 

 

 

ima make something soon

[venomai]

Finished the file reading/writing system. :)

 

 

 

Picto files are compressed into ZIP archives. All brushes, snapshots and layers are separate entries in the ZIP, along with the XML definition of the project. :) Instead of having the PNG data inside XML tags, I'm now using references to "link" to the images (this keeps the XML very clean).

 

 

 

The code is very flexible and will allow each individual element (snapshots, brushes, brush packs, etc) to be saved/loaded. :)

[Aussie_King]

Wow, very amazing, and you did it all in Java ^_^

[venomai]

Code updates. Added first revisions..

 

 

 

So far it only includes the core API. From here it shouldn't be too difficult to build up a Swing application.

 

http://picto.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Picto/

[Gehackte]

dam i cant open it on school because we dont have the newest java version:S

[Plectrum]

Very cool program :) . I got to the point in c++ that I could make a calculator program similar to the microsoft program, only better. I never got around to it, therefore I lost all my knowledge of c++ :(.

 

 

 

How many programming classes have you had?

[venomai]

dam i cant open it on school because we dont have the newest java version:S

 

What version do you have there? It should work on 1.5 -- but I might have the next release moved down to work on 1.4.2 also.

 

 

 

How many programming classes have you had?

 

Third year beginner's programming, although nearly everything I know was self-taught (the teacher knows very little). I only stay in the class for the easy marks and the steady stream of good assignment ideas that keep me practicing. :)

[Talset65]

I love this programme! loads of fun ^_^

[Andy]

I'm so doing my first pixel on this.

[venomai]

Paint's probably much better for pixels. :)

 

 

 

Here is some more progress.

 

 

 

Recent Tests:

 

I've recreated the old test using the new Picto engine.

 

This test starts with an empty 500x500 project, but it can also load from a .picto archive. It contains all the major features -- layers, tablet pressure, master brush diameter, textured brushes, opacity, etc. Here is a screenshot after testing various brushes and opacities.

 

 

 

 

Project Viewer:

 

I also wrote a simple project viewer tool. I'll have a similar tool for brush pack files later on. But most likely these won't be very useful to non-developers.

 

 

 

 

Source Code:

 

http://picto.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/Picto/src/

 

 

 

I'll have webstarts soon. :)