MyPaint 1.0.x updated with new fancy color selectors (PPA available)
MyPaint is a versatile open-source application useful for digital painters, painters searching a minimalistic (when observed) yet packed with numerous features, tool that presents the user a distraction-free interface for graphics actions and, on-demand, exposes its solid bundle of tools, brushes, scratchpad, unlimited canvas and more, via a double-sided approach, in the sense that MyPaint is usable for regular computers and optimized for pressure sensitive graphics tablets.
Months ago, MyPaint 1.0 was released, nevertheless, in the same 1.x series, various enhancements are constantly landing, improving both the user interface and the available features.
The just updated MyPaint gained refreshed color selectors (accessible under Toggle Color Window) featuring a fancy HCY Wheel with Gamut mask editor by clicking its bottom-right "cog" icons and option to Add color to palette (via the bottom-right "star" icon) and Palette category with edit support and beautifully rendered/managed colors.
How do we install MyPaint 1.0?
Add the following development PPA (Precise)
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:achadwick/mypaint-testing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mypaint
Bugs can be reported on https://bugs.launchpad.net/mypaint
Worth mentioning
Although labeled as a testing PPA, the presented PPA is, according to its launchpad description, created as "we try to keep things in master fairly stable and tested, but things may still break".
