MyPaint

Another application specialising in materials emulation is MyPaint, an application that might feel a little more familiar to a Unity desktop user than Krita. MyPaint's interface is clean and minimal, but it still offers all of the most important features that a digital artist might want.

The most commonly used palettes are minimised in the upper right corner of MyPaint; there's an icon for the colour picker, the brush presets, layers, a scratchpad for testing out brushes and colour mixing, and full-screen mode.

Along the top toolbar on the left are the less-frequent, but no less important, controls. Particularly important is the drop-down contol panel for a brush's size, opacity, and precision. The Slow Position Tracking setting is MyPaint's term for precision, and it can be extremely useful. If you find that the computer is translating every little movement that you make with your tablet or mouse, but you would rather it pick up on only the broad, important strokes, then increase the Slow Position Tracking amount. This means that MyPaint will intentionally delay its detection of brush movement. This means that you can make rather clumsy movements across your desk or tablet and still end up with smooth and flowing brush strokes on the screen.