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Pinta is an open-source raster graphics editor developed by the Pinta Community, designed as a lightweight alternative to more complex image manipulation suites. Built with GTK#, the software provides a streamlined interface for basic drawing, photo retouching, and layered composition tasks, making it suitable for students, hobbyists, and professionals who need rapid edits without the overhead of enterprise-grade tools. Typical use cases include quick annotation of screenshots, color correction of photographs, creation of web graphics, and frame-by-frame pixel art, all facilitated by a tabbed workspace that supports unlimited layers, blending modes, and over 35 adjustment and effect filters such as Gaussian blur, unsharp mask, and hue/saturation. The program also imports and exports more than 30 file formats—including PSD, ORA, JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, and WebP—ensuring compatibility with workflows originating in GIMP, Adobe Photoshop, or Krita. Version history spans nine major and minor releases, with the current stable build, 3.0.5, introducing high-DPI awareness on Windows, a rebuilt brush engine for smoother strokes, and faster project loading through asynchronous thumbnail generation. Previous milestones added pressure-sensitive tablet support, a magnetic lasso selection tool, and a completely translatable UI available in over 50 languages. Because Pinta is released under the MIT license, its codebase encourages community contributions, plugin development, and cross-platform deployment on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The application is categorized under Image Editors within the catalog and is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are provided via trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always delivering the latest version and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.
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