mtPaint is an open source paint application for both Linux and Windows developed for the purpose of creating and manipulating pixel images.
It was developed from scratch by Mark Tyler and maintained by Dmitry Groshev. If you hadn’t heard about it prior to reading this article it is probably because before its latest update in June 2016, its last update was in 2011!
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