“Easily create pixel art with this free editor”

Don’t be fooled by mtPaint's basic appearance. In fact, this is an excellent graphic editor that offers much more than a simple Paint replacement.

mtPaint enables you to both open images in several popular formats and create your own drawings and graphic compositions from scratch. Regarding the latter, it seems that mtPaint is mainly focused on pixel art, as it allows you to draw with high precision thanks to a very powerful zoom tool. Drawing tools, in any case, may not be the strength of this program – my personal opinion is that it should include more of them.

On the upside, mPaint really stands out as a graphic editor with which you can perform many daily tasks. It's simple in design and usage, but at the same time it includes advanced features such as layer support, filters, special effects and more. Of course, this is no equivalent to Photoshop but it will work fine for most of your graphic needs.

Despite its basic appearance and simplicity of use, mtPaint is certainly a great alternative to the standard Microsoft Paint, featuring advanced functions and tools.

Languages:

English, Spanish, Arabic, Dutch, Euskera, Finnish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish

mtPaint supports the following formats:

PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, XMP and XBM.

OS requirements for mtPaint:

OS: Win95/98/Me/XP/Vista

Pros

Support for layers
Many filters and special effects
Great for pixel art

Cons

Not enough drawing tools

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From the publisher of mtPaint

mtPaint is a painting program which Mark Tyler developed from scratch so he could easily create pixel art and manipulate digital photos.

See what mtPaint features for you:

Toggle the toolbars on or off at the touch of a button.
Horizontal or vertical split view mode.
Pixel grid for guidance at high levels of zoom.
Move the mouse pointer with exact precision using the arrow keys.
Extensive shortcut keys used to improve productivity.
12 Image clipboard.
Up to 1000 undo steps.
Zoom levels between 10% and 2000%.
Pan window for quickly navigating a large image, or at a high zoom.
Browse different files passed at the command line.
Use a pressure sensitive graphics tablet.
Limit memory used for undo images.
Grab screenshots.
Edit indexed palette or RGB images.
Extensive palette features - load, save, sort, edit, posterize, quantize, remove duplicate colours, remove unused colours, colour protection, palette shifting.
Image channels: Alpha, Selection, Mask. All saved to a PNG file.
Up to 100 layers.
Create animations by moving layers, or shifting palettes.
Create animated GIF's using Gifsicle.
81 brush presets.
100 brush patterns.
User defined gradients.
Copy and paste using rectangle or polygon shapes.
Tools to shuffle pixels, flood fill, draw straight lines, smudge, clone, paste text, draw/fill rectangle/ellipses.