AzPainter

🖌 AzPainter is mainly a full color painting software for illustration drawing.

Website

Official Website: http://azsky2.html.xdomain.jp/linux/azpainter.html (Japanese)

Other:

English: https://azworldweb.wordpress.com
Brazilian Portuguese: https://aznosekai.wordpress.com
Russian: http://zenway.ru/page/azpainter

Screenshots

Expand to see screenshots of AzPainter

Brushes

Built-in and community created brushes listed on «Brushes» wiki-page.

Themes

Read «Themes» wiki-page for more info on customizing interface colors.

Packaging status

Note: Current packages & build instructions available only for Unix-like OS:

Expand to view the downstream package repositories that currently carry the AzPainter package

BSD-based
Linux-based
macOS
AppImage (master branch) (Note: AppImages are self-contained executables)

Important note: Continuous AppImage-builds are not yet usable. Currently they're used only for testing purposes!

All available packages listed on wiki-page.

Prerequisites

X Window System (X11R6 or later)
Note: (X11R 7.5 or later when you want to recognize pen pressure)
Unix-like OS (BSD-based, Linux-based, macOS, etc.)

Important Note: MS Windows is not officially supported BUT you could try to compile & run AzPainter using Cygwin/X or Xming tools. More details on building on Windows found on the dedicated wiki-page.

Installation

Dependencies

gcc
make
automake
Xlib       (libX11)
Xext       (libXext)
XInput2    (libXi)
freetype2  (libfreetype)
fontconfig (libfontconfig)
zlib
libpng
libjpeg

Linux Distros

Expand this section to read about installing AzPainter on various Linux distros

Debian/Ubuntu

gcc make automake libx11-dev libxext-dev libxi-dev \ 
libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig1-dev zlib1g-dev libjpeg-dev

Important Note:

For Debian 9.0 / Ubuntu 16.10 or later you'll need: libpng-dev
For Debian 8.0 (or less) / Ubuntu 16.04 (or less) you'll need: libpng12-dev

RedHat

gcc make automake libX11-devel libXext-devel libXi-devel \ 
libfreetype6-devel libfontconfig-devel zlib-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-devel

Arch Linux

You'll need to download AzPainter from the AUR
You can use yay or trizen or your package manager to install the package

Compile from Source

Expand this section for instructions on how to compile AzPainter from source

Download & unpack tarball of latest sources release.

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install-strip

Note: It will be installed in the /usr/local by default.

Run ./configure
Note: You can customize the install directory e.g. installing to /usr will require the following flag:

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr

If you can not find the header files of freetype you can specify their location with the --with-freetype-dir flag:

$ ./configure --with-freetype-dir=/usr/include/freetype2

Invoke AzPainter

$ ./azpainter

Usage

Using the GUI: find AzPainter in your distro's application menu and invoke it.
Using the terminal: as mentioned before, invoking AzPainter from the terminal is as simple as typing:
```
$ azpainter
```

Tutorials

To learn how to use AzPainter, take a look at the «Tutorials» wiki-page for textual and video tutorials.

Developer

Copyright (C) 2013-2019 Azel azelpg@gmail.com

https://github.com/azelpg

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