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

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Post by tbabb »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #49
blt wrote: post #41

The UI and behavior is amazingly close to the real thing. But I cannot help but sigh when the brush tool lags more than Paint lagged on a 233 MHz Celeron. I really think this is an awesome project, but I am old enough (30) to remember fast performing GUI apps and I don't know if I'll ever "get over" losing them. edit: hopefully it is an inefficient implementation and not the inherent slowness of web apps.

One thing I noticed is that it doesn't draw zoomed-in images correctly - pixels are blurry. Didn't check if this is Canvas or WebGL, but something in the code begs being changed from LINEAR to NEAREST. (EDIT: turns out to be a Firefox issue; Chrome shows the sweet pretty pixels correctly.) > I really think this is an awesome project, but I am old enough (30) to remember fast performing GUI apps and I don't know if I'…

The spline and polygon tools also antialias, unlike the old app.

Not knocking it though; it's an impressively close clone.

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

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Post by rypskar »

colordrops wrote: post #56
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…

It doesn't take very long at all to get familiar with basic Gimp features. The investment in time is minimal and worth it. You could probably figure how to do everything you can do in MSPaint in Gimp in 20-30 minutes.

And then when you need it the next time 3 months later you need to invest the same 20-30 minutes to relearn how to use Gimp. It isn't only Gimp that have this problem, it is hard for power users to understand the problems casual users has with using software

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

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Post by wetpaws »

colordrops wrote: post #56
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…

It doesn't take very long at all to get familiar with basic Gimp features. The investment in time is minimal and worth it. You could probably figure how to do everything you can do in MSPaint in Gimp in 20-30 minutes.

This is exactly 20-30 minute more than any sane person should waste on a image editor.

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

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Post by janci »

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…

KolourPaint is very close. GIMP is great, but simple operations (ie. screenshot-crop-higlight-annotate) get complicated (layers, floating layers, text layers, alpha)

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

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Post by Yaggo »

eropple wrote: post #31
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!

Pixelmator is crazy cheap for its features and polishness.

Edit: seems to be $60 now for "Pro" version, whatever that means, but still cheap. My only wish is svg export¹.

[1] http://www.pixelmator.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7663...

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

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Post by colordrops »

wetpaws wrote: post #64
colordrops wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't take very long at all to get familiar with basic Gimp features. The investment in time is minimal and worth it. You could probably figure how to do everything you can do in MSPaint in Gimp in 20-30 minutes.

This is exactly 20-30 minute more than any sane person should waste on a image editor.

If you only use it once yeah. I'm super casual and just use it for cropping and resizing and whatnot, and have used it dozens of times. Worth 20-30 minutes.

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

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Post by edflsafoiewq »

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 disagree about usability. Probably most people just used MS Paint first. MS Paint has different tools and different brush-tip (widths) for pencil/brush/spray-can/eraser that all do essentially the same thing (okay, the eraser's right click mode is different, but hardly anyone knows about it), and then the line/curve/box tools all have _their_ own width. This is all unified into one global brush/pattern option in mtPaint that everything uses. The zoom levels are better too. I think the only thing that's not obvious in mtPaint is the eyedropper.

The one thing I like in MS Paint is the controls to resize the canvas near its edges. Most other programs make you go through a dialog or select and then trim to selection.

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

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Post by qalmakka »

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've been an almost Linux/BSD user for more than a decade now, and I've always used 32-bit MSPaint from XP without any issue through Wine. Salvage the .exe from a Windows XP install and the necessary MFC .dll, and you're ready to roll.
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