There is a very good downloadable manual, but not generous in providing small details applicable when working in a low res bitmap such as that found in knit design. The scope of AhrahPaint is smaller, but its functions are well worth exploring from simple designs with any application including hand knitting, to scaling, drawing in repeat, configuring those repeats in many arrangements easily, color reductions, and much more for end-use in machine knitting. Working notes may be found in my many past blog posts on using Gimp including the latest 8/gimp-update-for-mac-2/. I have used it intermittently for features not achievable in Gimp at all, especially prior to its latest Mac updates. I have been using Gimp for eons, it is my go-to along with Numbers to create the charts in my blog and graph my designs to ready them for download.ĪrahPaint is a free paint program, part of a far larger weaving one. I work exclusively on a Mac unless downloading to my Passap with Wincrea, an ancient laptop, and as old a version of windows.
Questions regularly turn up asking what software we use as individuals to design repeats for our knitting.
