Plan Paint

A workspace in your language

Version 1.1.2 follows your operating system’s language and includes 22 language packs. Settings shows the complete language list when space permits, with a visible scrollbar in smaller windows. In non-English interfaces, Help! English! beside Help offers a return to English after restarting. English is built into the application and remains available if a translation file is missing. Bundled fonts support Arabic, Hebrew, Indic scripts and CJK text. The in-app guide is translated too.

Settings → Canvas controls adds drawing coordinates, pixel-step movement and separate Start stroke and Finish stroke buttons. Checkbox controls replace held shape modifiers. These controls expose names and actions through the operating system’s accessibility services. Voice Control, switch, eye-tracking and screen-reader workflows still need end-to-end user testing; the release does not claim universal accessibility. The complete ribbon is not mirrored for right-to-left languages.

Available languages and translation files · Drawing controls and verified accessibility support

Give a region a gradient

Open the Fill bucket arrow and choose Use gradient. Its Gradients ribbon offers linear fills with an angle and circular fills from the region’s center. Click the strip to add handles, drag them into position, and set each color and transparency independently. Between 2 and 32 stops let you build soft transitions or tight metallic highlights.

Twelve presets include Rainbow spectrum, Sunset fire, Electric blue, Metallic chrome, Gunmetal, Purple galaxy, Gold, Rose quartz, Ocean, Emerald, Copper, and Black and white. Fills respect connected regions, selections and guides, and undo in one step. Gradient controls and behavior.

The first mark

Open a picture or start with the blank canvas. Choose Pencil in Home for a precise one-pixel stroke; choose Brushes for a wider mark. Pick a color from the ribbon and drag across the paper. Undo and Redo are always near the left edge. On Mac, Command+Z undoes; on Windows and Linux, use Ctrl+Z.

For a line or shape, click to start, move the pointer, then click to place it. Hold Ctrl to draw a closed shape outward from its center. Settings retains click-and-drag placement as an option.

Drag an image into the window to place it as a movable selection. View → Fit window makes room for the whole picture. Click the active ribbon tab to fold its controls away; the painting stays in place. File → Settings adjusts scrolling and offers felt or matte backings around the canvas. Those workspace surfaces never enter the saved image.

Settings also offers an optional rotation grip outside the canvas corner: drag it to turn the working view, then right-click it to reset upright. Painting stays in the original image coordinates. Arrow keys pan, and Shift pans farther; the color picker samples Primary or Alt on click and pans when dragged. Choose a custom tool size after 64 px in the size menu or from the bottom bar.

Make a pattern of your own

Materials offers Bricks, Buttons, Cargo Net, Circuits, Cobblestones and Straw Mat, plus a custom tile. Choose Edit custom pattern to open its separate canvas. Draw black with the left mouse button and white with the right; the preview shows the tile repeating at actual pixel size.

Width and height each range from 1 to 128 pixels. The tile has its own Undo and Redo, and completed edits are saved for the next session. Return to main canvas restores the picture, selection, view and drawing history. The tile supplies a mask for the material colors when you paint.

Let the gears draw

Open Path → Spirograph for a translucent green support and blue insert. Explore 16 guides and 23 inserts: rings, shaped frames, straight racks, circular gears and rounded shapes. Drag pegs into the insert’s sockets, fill them with Primary or Alt ink, then drag the center grip to draw.

Click a seated peg to select it and assign a brush medium; its cap previews the mark. Each peg retains its own ink, width and material. Move the support to reposition the assembly without drawing, or close it with the red button. The temporary apparatus follows the same tool-switching rules as Guide.

A few colors, many marks

Select an area and choose Selection → Dither / posterize…. Choose 2–32 colors and compare Crosswind, Weave, Scrambled or Drift in the preview. Posterize gives flat regions their own representative-color palette. With no selection, the operation applies to the whole canvas.

Refined OKLab palettes preserve tonal structure. Dithering also fits how those colors mix, discouraging harsh bright or unrelated color speckles; Crosswind avoids carrying unrepresentable error into fringes. Apply commits the preview as one undoable edit. Transparent pixels, alpha and the area outside the selection are preserved.

A whole sheet, one frame at a time

Atlas divides a sprite sheet into rows and columns, with optional margins and spacing. Choose a frame in the ribbon or step through with Alt+Left and Alt+Right. Expand gallery retains the sheet’s two-dimensional arrangement. Edits participate in undo across frames; saving keeps the whole sheet, including unused edge pixels.

Warp edges wraps painting across the active frame’s horizontal and vertical edges. Preserve transparency holds every original alpha value, including soft edges. Right-click another frame to use it as a half-opacity reference; that overlay is only a guide. ICO and CUR files open as sets of sizes, and cursor hotspots remain editable.

Free rotation, resized selections, transformed stamps and mesh reshape use a continuous CONV field compiled from the original pixels. Prepared previews use point synthesis; committed affine and mesh transforms integrate destination pixel areas. Resizing integrates each changed axis. Prepared nonconstant transform sources are limited to one million pixels. The optional rotated view uses a substantial preparation cache and gives direct pixel feedback while preparation is pending or unavailable. The CONV perspective workbench explores the related image-field approach in the browser.