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<font size="+1">Free cross-platform image editor with raster and vector layers, written in Lazarus (Free Pascal).</font>

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<big>History</big>

LazPaint was started to demonstrate the capabilities of the graphic library BGRABitmap. It provides advanced drawing functions in Lazarus development environment. Both provided a source of inspiration for the other and finally LazPaint became real image editor. Thanks to the help of Lazarus community, the program has been compiled on Windows, Linux and macOS.

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<big>Features</big>

Files: read and write a variety of file formats, including layered bitmaps and 3D files.

Tools: many tools are available to draw on the layers.

Edit/Select: select parts of an image with antialiasing and modify the selection as a mask.

View: color window, layer stack window and toolbox window.

Command line: call LazPaint from a console.

Scripts: scripts are provided to do layer effects. You can as well write your own Python scripts.

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Quick start

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<big>Useful keys</big>

Maintaining Space key down switches temporarily in move mode
F6 key hides/shows all tool windows
Ctrl key aligns to image pixels and limits possible angles with rotation tool
Backspace key erases last point in a polygon or last letter in a text
Enter key releases the selection

Right mouse button can be used to:

Swap drawing colors temporarily
Subtract from selection (selection tool)
Define reference position (light position for shaded text and shapes, rotation center, clone tool source)
Finish a shape (polygon, curve)
Rotate a shape (clicking corners)

Left clicking in the small color preview will select the pen / background / outline color or if it is a gradient, the start / end color, to be edited with the color chooser.

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<big>Video tutorials</big>

Video tutorials are available on Youtube :

Getting started
Advanced drawing tools
Using selection tools
Text with projected shadow
Drawing a vortex
Export for Krita
Using layers, magic wand and perspective
Draw a fire (overlay blending mode)
Draw lightnings (negation blending mode)
Draw a neon with blur (lighten blending mode)
Spline selection and glow effect (glow blending mode)
Drop shadow (example of layer effect)

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Download

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Binaries can be downloaded on GitHub for Windows, Linux and macOS.

Download Portable

Support this project

How to make a portable version

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Source code

The source code can be downloaded on GitHub:

LazPaint: https://github.com/bgrabitmap/lazpaint/

BGRAControls: https://github.com/bgrabitmap/bgracontrols/

BGRABitmap: https://github.com/bgrabitmap/bgrabitmap/

Dependencies:

LazPaint depends on BGRAControls and BGRABitmap.
BGRAControls depends on BGRABitmap.

You can download the source code and compile it for a specific platform. MacOS version is now fully functional.

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Compilation of latest version

Get Lazarus as a package in your distribution or download it at https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/
Open Lazarus to check it works
Download latest version of BGRABitmap at https://github.com/bgrabitmap/bgrabitmap/releases
Open the package file BGRABitmapPack.lpk in Lazarus
Download latest version of BGRAControls at https://github.com/bgrabitmap/bgracontrols/releases
Open the package file bgracontrols.lpk in Lazarus
Download LazPaint at https://github.com/bgrabitmap/lazpaint/releases
Open the package file lazpaintcontrols.lpk in Lazarus
Open the project file lazpaint.lpi or lazpaint.lpr in Lazarus (choose to Open project if prompted)
Click the green triangle "Run" and check if the program is working
Close LazPaint and close Lazarus and go in the release folder of the project

The essential files are: the executable file, the readme file, the models, i18n and scripts folders.

Additional files and instructions are in release folder for each platform:

windows: run the batch file stage.bat to generate a lazpaint32 and lazpaint64 folders that contains everything (it adds particular support for WebP and RAW images by adding dcraw.exe and libwebp.dll).
macOS: go in the folder with the terminal and call ./makedmg.sh to generate the bundle.
debian: go in the folder with the terminal and call ./makedeb.sh to generate the DEB package and the TAR.GZ file.

Note: when debugging on Windows, you may want to have support for WebP and RAW images. You can do that by copying the dcraw.exe and libwebp.dll files next to the compiled files (for example debug\i386-win32 for 32-bit version).

Screenshots

LazPaint on Linux (and dark theme)

<figure> <img src="Lazpaint_version_7.png" title="Lazpaint_version_7.png" /> <figcaption>Lazpaint_version_7.png</figcaption> </figure>

LazPaint on Windows

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LazPaint on Puppy Linux

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Interface

Many common actions can be done with the toolbar. Zoom can be changed with the magnifying glass (+ or -), or by clicking on the 1:1 button to show the image at its original size in pixels, or with the zoom fit button to set the zoom so that the whole image be within the window.

It is possible to undo/redo the 200 last operations. If you have a doubt on what you are drawing, undo back to the beginning, save a copy, and redo the modifications before going further.

Image manipulation

An image can be resampled, flipped horizontally and vertically.

Smart zoom x3 : resize the image x3 and detects borders; this provides a useful zoom with ancient games sprites.

Color manipulation

Colorize : set the color of an image while preserving intensities
Shift colors : cycle colors and change colorness (saturation)
Intensity : make colors lighter or darker without making them white
Lightness : make colors lighter or darker by making them whiter
Normalize : use the whole range of each color channel and alpha channel
Negative : invert colors (with gamma correction)
Linear negative : invert colors (without gamma correction)
Grayscale : converts colors to grayscale with gamma correction

Filters

Filters can be applied to the whole image or to the active selection.

Radial blur : non directional blur
Motion blur : directional blur
Custom blur : blur according to a mask
Sharpen : makes contours more accute, complementary to Smooth
Smooth : softens whole image, complementary to Sharpen
Median : computes the median of colors around each pixel, which softens corners
Contour : draws contours on a white background (like a pencil drawing)
Emboss : draws contours with shadow
Sphere : spherical projection
Cylinder : cylinder projection
Clouds : add clouds of the current pen color

From the Free Pascal wiki, page "LazPaint", as it stood on 2024-01-30 after a change by Circular, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's Licensing page. If you have concerns about this material, message the admin.