Painting Homebrew For Pandora

[ahahah]

hello

is there any painting homebrew for pandora like "colors" already available for nintendo ds and iphone/ipod touch (see http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/ )

pandora has a touch screen like these machines so it would be possible to create such a program, wouldn't it?

 

[lulzfish]

Yes, since the Pandora is a full Linux PC it will be to trivial to port TuxPaint or something like that.
We will have GIMP, but the interface is kinda weird...

Unless Colors has some really amazing features, one of us could probably just write a Qt application that works just like it.

Also, the Pandora's touchscreen is like the DS, but not like the iPod. It works with a stylus, fingertip, or pencil, but not with multiple contacts.

Edit: Almost forgot, the Pandora's touchscreen is supposed to have 16 levels (4 bits) of pressure-sensitivity, which according to Colors is used on their DS version. I don't know if there's a way to access that in Qt, but maybe in SDL? Does anyone know how the pressure sensitivity will work?

 

[mcobit]

http://pinta-project.com/

This is a new, opensource Paint.net clone for Linux. Maybe someone want to look into porting it?

 

[GreenDream]

http://pinta-project.com/

This is a new, opensource Paint.net clone for Linux. Maybe someone want to look into porting it?

Great find!

 

[ashdjones]

http://pinta-project.com/

This is a new, opensource Paint.net clone for Linux. Maybe someone want to look into porting it?

Great find!

Looks good. The best I could find in the past was Kolourpaint:

 

[ahahah]

the advantage of colors is the possibility to use the transparency (controlled by the screen pressure)
with it you can do amazing paintings.
you want some examples?

look here http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/ranking.php?page=1

look the available tools http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/images/brush.png
this interface is very simple: thickness, transparency, color and size. nothing else
it is available by pressing a button, to switch between this screen and the painting.

while painting: 2 buttons assigned to zoom in/out, one button to pick a color on the painting and an other one to move the painting

colors is perfect for painting, the programs you're talking about are suitable for pixeling.

 

[dflemstr]

the advantage of colors is the possibility to use the transparency (controlled by the screen pressure)
with it you can do amazing paintings.
you want some examples?

look here http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/ranking.php?page=1

look the available tools http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/images/brush.png
this interface is very simple: thickness, transparency, color and size. nothing else
it is available by pressing a button, to switch between this screen and the painting.

while painting: 2 buttons assigned to zoom in/out, one button to pick a color on the painting and an other one to move the painting

colors is perfect for painting, the programs you're talking about are suitable for pixeling.

If you can link me to a video of how the program works, I'll make a clone in no-time. Deal?

(I'll need a Pandora first, of course, to add pressure sensitivity)

 

[fischju2000]

the advantage of colors is the possibility to use the transparency (controlled by the screen pressure)
with it you can do amazing paintings.
you want some examples?

look here http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/ranking.php?page=1

look the available tools http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/images/brush.png
this interface is very simple: thickness, transparency, color and size. nothing else
it is available by pressing a button, to switch between this screen and the painting.

while painting: 2 buttons assigned to zoom in/out, one button to pick a color on the painting and an other one to move the painting

colors is perfect for painting, the programs you're talking about are suitable for pixeling.

If you can link me to a video of how the program works, I'll make a clone in no-time. Deal?

(I'll need a Pandora first, of course, to add pressure sensitivity)

You could run the DS version in no$gba, though pressure sensitivity might not work. It is a great program, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coOj5imiBqg

 

[ahahah]

this video (10 minutes) seems to be more complete to show you how this homebrew works
http://vimeo.com/7734329

 

[spinghed]

wow... I've been thinking about a good painting app for pandora, maybe we can lobby the nice people who made colours??

Rick

 

[ahahah]

wow... I've been thinking about a good painting app for pandora, maybe we can lobby the nice people who made colours??

i've thought about this, but they are very late for their ds version update.
it is 2 years since the ds version is not updated, the developpers have no time no more.
they have promised an update for the ds version so they will make it but we feel it would be the last version because of lack of time.
they also developped the app for ipod, some people asked them for zunehd or ipad without hope.
so it is impossible that they interest in pandora...

 

[renwils]

I'm hoping that Inkscape will run, and is able to use the pressure sensitivity of the touch screen.

 

[Ravnos]

hello

is there any painting homebrew for pandora like "colors" already available for nintendo ds and iphone/ipod touch (see http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/ )

pandora has a touch screen like these machines so it would be possible to create such a program, wouldn't it?

Not really related, but I would kill to see a version of Colors ported to Maemo 5/the N900. A generic Linux release for ARM and x86 would be fine too.

 

[rabidpoobear]

hello

is there any painting homebrew for pandora like "colors" already available for nintendo ds and iphone/ipod touch (see http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/ )

pandora has a touch screen like these machines so it would be possible to create such a program, wouldn't it?

Not really related, but I would kill to see a version of Colors ported to Maemo 5/the N900. A generic Linux release for ARM and x86 would be fine too.

It's really interesting to me how much people like Colors considering it's such a simple application.

If dlemstr doesn't beat me to it I'll rewrite it for Pandora for sure.

 

[Sphinxter]

I have an extra one on order for Bill to borrow so I'm fairly certain you'll at least see Tuxpaint.

 

[kagato]

The last time a painting topic came up, MyPaint was mentioned, which looks awesome (but I still haven't tried out).

It's very artist-focused, and has a couple of features that should lend itself well to the limited screen real estate on the Pandora -- minimal interface, expanding canvas -- and of course it's open source.

Hopefully someone will port it; but if not I guess I'll have to knuckle down and figure it out myself...

 

[torpor]

Inkscape will work well, I'm sure ..

 

[valhalla]

There is a Colors clone that runs under a linux based system, but it is a sugar activity, and I believe that it is not a pure python one, but includes a binary blob, so it won't even work out of the box even if sugar is ported to pandora. AFAIR it is all open source, however, so it may be a starting point.

 

[grasshoppir]

GrafX2 if you can pixel.

 

[rabidpoobear]

I had some free time so I started working on a Pandora painting app. It's pretty killer so far. I think y'all will like it.
I'm adding in the replay feature and the transparent brushes next. It's pressure sensitive too of course.
Todo:
- replay feature
- transparent brushes
- saving / loading images

Would be nice:
- brushes of images
- support for opening Colors! files
- zooming in/out
- panning

Painting program mascot:

Hey, I never said I was good at painting