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Whats the difference between CinePaint and Photoshop?

April 26, 2017cinepaint difference Photoshop

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Whats the difference between CinePaint and Photoshop?

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The base functionality is similar, but Adobe Photoshop doesn’t include the special features that CinePaint has for working with motion pictures and film. CinePaint has higher color fidelity — supporting 16-bit channels, plus a frame manager and a flipbook movie player. Photoshop is more mature as an application, with a more pleasing user interface, support for color spaces, and CMYK. These areas are being improved in CinePaint. CinePaint is available for many more operating systems. Photoshop is available on Windows and Macintosh. CinePaint is available for Windows, Macintosh OS X (via X11 only), Linux, IRIX, DEC/Compaq Alpha, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, Intel IA64, IBM S/390, and HP-UX. A native Mac Aqua version is coming. Some consider it a significant difference that CinePaint is free and Photoshop costs hundreds of dollars. • How can it be free? What’s the catch? How do you make money? CinePaint is free open source software. There is no catch. CinePaint exists through the generosity