Film Gimp Project Renamed to CinePaint

ubiquitin writes "To avoid confusion with the GIMP, the Film Gimp project has renamed itself to CinePaint. The project is essentially a legitimate fork of GIMP, and is focused on image manipulations for moving pictures." We've mentioned Film Gimp several times lately; it'll be even handier as programs like Cinelerra and Kino grow more polished.

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Re:Why fork?

[ocelotbob]

Essentially, the fork came from a different design philosophy and set of priorities. One of the big reasons was that the Film GIMP (now CinePaint) crew wanted support for 16 bit per channel color, something that the GIMP crew wasn't going to be getting around to until GIMP 2.0. While GIMP 1.3.x now has that support, CinePaint now has support for other color models, such as floating point colors. Also, GIMP is migrating to GTK 2.x, and CinePaint is still using 1.2.