RS-Paint

A lightweight image editor, written in Rust using GTK4.

Setup

# 1. Install gtk4
sudo pacman -S gtk4 base-devel # Arch &c
sudo apt install libgtk-4-dev build-essential # Debian &c
sudo dnf install gtk4-devel gcc # Fedora &c

# 2. build and run
cargo run

Goals

• Match the intuition and simplicity of MS-Paint
• Add core features and ergonomics MS-Paint lacks
• Be cross-platform, free, and open-source

Features

• Basic Tools
  • Cursor (pan)
  • Pencil (+ various brushes and blending modes)
  • Eyedropper
  • Rectangle Select
  • Magic Wand
  • Fill
  • Free Transform (Translate, Scale, Rotate)
  • Shapes
  • Text
• Color Palette
  • Primary and Secondary Colors
  • Import/Export Palette
• Image Transformations
  • Flips
  • Rotations
  • Resizes
    • Cropping
    • Expansion
    • Scaling
• I/O
  • Import/Export (most common formats are supported)
  • Save/Load (project files)
• Complexity Management
  • Tabs
  • Layers
    • Merging, Cloning and Rearranging
    • Visibility Toggle
    • Modification Locking
  • Multi-Level Undo
    • Tree-View, Click-to-Navigate
• Misc.
  • Copy/Paste (internal selections and external clipboard)
  • Keybinds (see Help/Keyboard-Shortcuts)