CinePaint is a computer program to paint on and retouch bitmap frame (film)s of films. It is a fork (software) of version 1.0.4. of the GIMP. It is free software under the GNU General Public License. Its developers claim it is the most successful open source tool in feature motion picture work today.

Under its old name Film Gimp, CinePaint has so far been used for films such as Scooby-Doo (film) , Harry Potter and the Philosopher s Stone (film) and Stuart Little (film) .

Features that set CinePaint apart from its photo-editing predecessor are the frame manager, the possibility to do onion skinning, and to work with 16-bit and floating point pixels for High_dynamic_range_imaging. CinePaint supports an 16-bit throughout color management workflow for photographers and printers, including Lab_color_space and CMYK editing.

The current development version, 0.19, is available for Mac OS X, Linux and other Unices. The latest Microsoft Windows version was 0.16. The CinePaint developers have rejected the GIMP library GEGL, and have opted for a less complex system. As an additional simplification, images will simply be stored in linear arrays instead of the complex and error-prone tiled format used by GIMP.

Glasgow, a complete new code architecture for CinePaint, will make a new Windows version possible. The Glasgow effort is FLTK based.

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