LazPaint: A cross-platform image editor made in Lazarus
One of the areas with the most offers of applications in the field of Free Software, Open Source and GNU / Linux is the one of the media management, ie the image creation and design and photo treatment. For this reason, frequently in any website, group or GNU/Linux community several of them are mentioned, as advanced and complex as GIMP and Krita, and other simpler ones like Paint and MyPaint.
But, today, we will address one that is perhaps a little less known, since it belongs to the group of those that are not so advanced. and this is called "LazPaint"which is a good Imagen editor.
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And, before starting reading this post about this Image Editor called "LazPaint", we recommend the previous related posts to explore when finished:
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What is LazPaint?
According to its developers in its Official website, LazPaint It is described as:
"A free cross-platform image editor with raster and vector layers, written in Lazarus (Free Pascal)".
Therefore, it is an application that offers advanced drawing features for the Lazarus development environment. Also, use the library BGRABitmap to achieve a real efficient and effective image editor, for the following operating system platforms: Windows, Linux and macOS.
Features
Currently, LazPaint su current version is number 7.2.2, which was released on August 23st, 2022. And it has the following characteristics:
- It includes a window to select colors, the stack of layers and the list of tools.
- It integrates the use of the command line (CLI) to achieve its basic use from the Terminal.
- Allows the use of scripts to perform effects on layers. Also, allow the creation of scripts in Python.
- It is able to select parts of an image with anti-aliasing. Furthermore, said selection can be complex and modified like a mask.
- It can handle (read and write) many image formats, including those images that come with layers. Also, you can import images with 3D objects.
- It is able to use the right mouse button for many uses, for example, temporarily inverting the colors of the pattern, using it as selection tools, defining the position of the light (text with light and shapes with light), making a shape ( polygon or curve) and rotate a shape (by clicking a corner).
- It implements keyboard shortcuts to achieve many actions, such as: the space key (holding it down) to temporarily switch to movement mode; the F6 key to hide and show all tool windows; the Ctrl key to be able to align the pixels of the image and limit the possible angles with the rotation of the tool; the backspace key to go back when drawing a polygon or writing text; and finally, the Enter key to release a selection made.
Screen shots
The LazPaint setup files They are easily available on the home page of your website, for the various operating system platforms. Personally, I have installed LazPaint in its latest version about me Respin MX MiracleOS in its latest stable version 3.1. Therefore, next I will show you some screenshots of its current graphical user interface:
Summary
In summary, "LazPaint" is one of many graphics editing apps available in the field of Free Software, Open Source and GNU / Linux. And although it is not one of the most advanced, it can be really useful for those IT professionals o Advanced users. Or any other that works or requires modifying or creating images, or simply retouching some photos. Therefore, if you are one of them and you still do not know it, we advise you to try it.
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