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Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake

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Post by eropple »

barbs wrote: post #5

I haven't used Windows as a primary OS for years. I miss having MSPaint around for small edits, and have yet to find a suitable replacement. Other apps either have too few features (e.g. Preview) or too many (GIMP), or the interface doesn't feel right. It might just be because I'm used to it after using it for years when I was younger, but MSPaint's interface just makes sense, and it hits the sweet spot of features f…

I mostly use Pixelmator for that sort of thing on OS X. It's like $20, but I also bought it about five years ago, so it's a sunk cost!

Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake

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Post by iandanforth »

barbs wrote: post #5

I haven't used Windows as a primary OS for years. I miss having MSPaint around for small edits, and have yet to find a suitable replacement. Other apps either have too few features (e.g. Preview) or too many (GIMP), or the interface doesn't feel right. It might just be because I'm used to it after using it for years when I was younger, but MSPaint's interface just makes sense, and it hits the sweet spot of features f…

I regularly use http://www.pixlr.com/editor/

Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake

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Post by hjek »

chungy wrote: post #12
ekianjo wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried mtpaint? http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/

mtPaint has pretty poor usability compared to MS Paint. ReactOS has its own Paint, I wonder... it may be simple to compile it through winelib, or just run it directly via Wine. That'd be a pretty quick and legal way to get a functionally-identical clone.

I think the non-web app that comes closest to MS Paint in functionality is GrafX2. Only other paint program I've seen that has selection-as-a-brush. http://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2

The interface is a bit different than MS Paint but it has these absolutely wild features, like colour cycling, where the colours can change while you're painting, which can be fairly psychedelic. GrafX2 is more of a clone of DeluxePaint for Amiga.

I'm no fan of mtPaint either.

Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake

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Post by AldousHaxley »

wybiral wrote: post #16

Neat, there's a multi-user mode: http://jspaint.ml/#session:test

Cool! I built something similar a while back. A bit more structured (creating accounts and such), but with a bigger variety of drawing tools, and some social features like following, project collaboration, upvotes/downvotes, and chat. https://www.formgraph.com

Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake

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Post by badsectoracula »

barbs wrote: post #5

I haven't used Windows as a primary OS for years. I miss having MSPaint around for small edits, and have yet to find a suitable replacement. Other apps either have too few features (e.g. Preview) or too many (GIMP), or the interface doesn't feel right. It might just be because I'm used to it after using it for years when I was younger, but MSPaint's interface just makes sense, and it hits the sweet spot of features f…

> and have yet to find a suitable replacement

There are a few, Kolourpaint is pretty much an MSPaint clone for KDE [1] and Paintbrush is the macOS equivalent [2]. There is also Gnome Paint [3], but hasn't seen any update in years. I suppose the closest would be Pinta [4], although that is slightly above MS Paint on the complexity level (probably more comparable to Paint.NET than MS Paint).

> I'm not sure how I feel about it being web-based

Personally i find it amusing and impressive that this implements a Win95-like GUI (i love Win95's GUI :-P) but at the same time the actual editing feels very slow - painting something takes almost a second to update with the brush being very jumpy, reminding me using ZSoft's PhotoFinish on Windows 3.1 on my 4MB 386:-P.

It is also nice that it has implemented the select+shift+drag brush feature that is ignored by almost every other clone i've seen over the years.

[1] https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/kolourpaint/

[2] https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/screenshots/

[3] https://launchpad.net/gnome-paint

[4] https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/

Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake

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Post by duozerk »

chungy wrote: post #12
ekianjo wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried mtpaint? http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/

mtPaint has pretty poor usability compared to MS Paint. ReactOS has its own Paint, I wonder... it may be simple to compile it through winelib, or just run it directly via Wine. That'd be a pretty quick and legal way to get a functionally-identical clone.

The MS version at least can be wined without issue.

However, there are tons of lightweight image editors that run as fast as MS paint and offer more features; have you tried Pinta ? or gnome-paint ?

Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake

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Post by dingo_bat »

badsectoracula wrote: post #36
barbs wrote: post #5

I haven't used Windows as a primary OS for years. I miss having MSPaint around for small edits, and have yet to find a suitable replacement. Other apps either have too few features (e.g. Preview) or too many (GIMP), or the interface doesn't feel right. It might just be because I'm used to it after using it for years when I was younger, but MSPaint's interface just makes sense, and it hits the sweet spot of features f…

> and have yet to find a suitable replacement There are a few, Kolourpaint is pretty much an MSPaint clone for KDE [1] and Paintbrush is the macOS equivalent [2]. There is also Gnome Paint [3], but hasn't seen any update in years. I suppose the closest would be Pinta [4], although that is slightly above MS Paint on the complexity level (probably more comparable to Paint.NET than MS Paint). > I'm not sure how I feel a…

> actual editing feels very slow - painting something takes almost a second to update with the brush being very jumpy, reminding me using ZSoft's PhotoFinish on Windows 3.1 on my 4MB 386:-P.

Works as fast as native paint on my laptop. What browser are you using?

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