HEhelloplanets·Feb 18, 2026
In DPaint – Webbased image editor, modeled after the legendary Deluxe Paintsteffest
DPaint-js
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steffest / DPaint-js
DPaint-js
Webbased image editor, modeled after the legendary Deluxe Paint with a focus on retro Amiga file formats: read and write Amiga icon files and IFF ILBM images/animations
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Webbased image editor, modeled after the legendary Deluxe Paint with a focus on retro Amiga file formats: read and write Amiga icon files and IFF ILBM images/animations
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this seems to be supported
In Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe PaintThis is neat, some years ago i also thought of making a simple DPaint clone (though much simpler than what this project seems to do) and started by... painting the tool icons, then losing interest :-P. I did end up reusing them for a pixelart editing component for Lazarus though[0] (and put the icons in my "Bad-Common-Icons" icon set[1] that i use for my GUI programs). But i do want to, at some point, tackle making something like Paint Shop Pro 7 (for desktop, not web) because i think it has the best UX of all image editing programs (including later versions of PSP which i never liked).
That said, i played with this a bit and found some bug with the smudge tool blending[2]. It also seems browser-related as it has different behavior in Firefox and Falkon (which uses QtWebEngine / Chromium). Also the way opacity works with the smudge tool f
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eels weird/wrong as even at 1% it seems to affect the image a lot even though it should barely make a difference.
[0] https://i.imgur.com/kht16dJ.png
[1] http://runtimeterror.com/tools/icons/
[2] https://github.com/steffest/DPaint-js/issues/50
Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint
250 points · Open discussionAlso shoutout to DPaint.js, which runs in the Browser: https://github.com/steffest/DPaint-js/
(Though I will say that Aseprite has taken over as my preferred Pixel Art editor.)
In A Clone of Deluxe Paint II Written in PythonGitHub link: https://github.com/steffest/DPaint-js
In DPaint.js: A web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint