Cinepaint

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Io non conoscevo questo programma nato per ritoccare foto per i film

E' un progetto opensource per Linux, Windows e Mac... usato niente popò di meno che da "Rhythm & Hues for Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Cats & Dogs, Dr. Dolittle 2, Little Nicky, Grinch, Sixth Day, Stuart Little, and Planet of the Apes. Sony Pictures Imageworks used CinePaint for Stuart Little II. Hammerhead Productions used it for Showtime and Blue Crush, and will use it for The Fast and the Furious II."

Ad agosto dovrebbe uscire la versione "definitiva", chiamata Glasgow

Suppora 16bit e i profili...


http://www.cinepaint.org/


Disney, DreamWorks, and Pixar funded Crossover (Wine) to make Adobe Photoshop for Windows run nicely on Linux. Other studios, such as Sony Pictures Imageworks, use CinePaint. Some studios use proprietary or internally developed tools. This list of studios using CinePaint should not be considered complete, is just some we know about.


* Amalgamated Pixels
Elf, Looney Tunes
* Computer Cafe
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
* Flash Film Works
Duplex, The Last Samurai
* Hammerhead
Showtime, Blue Crush, 2 Fast, 2 Furious
* Rhythm & Hues
Harry Potter, Cats & Dogs, Dr. Dolittle 2, Little Nicky, Grinch, Sixth Day, Stuart Little, Planet of the Apes
* Sony Pictures Imageworks
Stuart Little II, Spider-Man

CinePaint Features

Before we look at the software features of the CinePaint let's look another kind of CinePaint features.
Feature Films

CinePaint has been in use for many years in feature motion pictures. CinePaint was used by studio Rhythm & Hues for Scooby-Doo, Harry Potter, Cats & Dogs, Dr. Dolittle 2, Little Nicky, Grinch, Sixth Day, Stuart Little, and Planet of the Apes. Sony Pictures Imageworks used CinePaint for Stuart Little II. Hammerhead Productions used it for Showtime and Blue Crush, and will use it for The Fast and the Furious II.
What is CinePaint?

CinePaint is an image retouching and painting tool with features similar to GIMP and Adobe Photoshop. CinePaint, GIMP, and Photoshop are general purpose tools that can be used in many ways. However, each tool's design is recognized as appealing especially to a particular type of user. Photoshop is recognized as a tool for print artists. GIMP is recognized as a tool for Web artists. And, CinePaint is recognized as a tool for motion picture artists. That's not to say CinePaint can't be used for print and Web tasks. Anyone who wants to retouch or paint images can use CinePaint. What it means is that satisfying motion picture studio users is CinePaint's primary mission.

What is the "Film" part of CinePaint? What makes CinePaint better for working with 35mm film? CinePaint has vast dynamic range: 16-bits per channel (64-bit RGBA). That's more range than can be displayed on a computer monitor (24-bit RGB), but can make a visible difference when working with film. Film scanners have more range than monitors, and can capture a superior image from film. Even with images that started in 8-bit, conversion to 16-bit can preserve color information that can otherwise be lost during the editing process. Such loss of fidelity can be visible as banding when an image is eventually printed back to film or blown up to higher magnification for a still print.

The extended dynamic range of CinePaint appeals not just to 35mm cinematographers, but to 35mm still photographers as well. Still photographers can think of CinePaint as having many more F-stops of range, of being capable of capturing much more subtle nuances of color in a vast blue sky for instance. CinePaint handles 8-bit, 16-bit linear, and 16-bit float images.

Digital photographers and videographers use lossy compression methods such as JPEG or MPEG. For a small tradeoff in picture quality, the files can be made much smaller. That's why JPEG and MPEG are such popular formats on the Web. However, for highest image quality, artists use uncompressed or losslessly compressed images such as TIFF, RLE, Cineon, and EXR. CinePaint supports many formats in this realm -- formats unfamiliar to the typical Photoshop or GIMP user. CinePaint includes support for JPEG, PNG, and other common formats.
Supported File Formats

* Cineon
* JPEG
* OpenEXR
* PNG
* TIFF
* more...

What's Special About Motion Picture Files?

Motion picture tools have to cope with individual frames that are huge. Scanners are typically set to 2k resolution, that is, two thousand pixels wide. A frame in television DV format is 720 pixels wide. It is possible to pack these huge 2k motion picture frames into a codec such as Quicktime, but it doesn't gain anything to do so. The resulting file would be humongous and very difficult to handle. Instead, motion picture frames are simply handled as numbered images. Motion picture tools understand that a directory of numbered images is actually a movie. CinePaint is much more nimble at handling numbered images than doing the equivalent {File}{Open} operation over and over again in a general purpose tool. CinePaint knows what "Next" means.

CinePaint provides a Store Frame Manager and flipbook under the {Dialogs} menu.