And built with jQuery. Yeah, I can feel the burn of those edgy react and angular devs...
JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
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Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
#82I 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…
IMO the best painting/lightweight editing tool is paint.net. Since I moved to mac I moved to Gimp and it’s ‘fine’.. but paint.net is really the only tool I’m missing fron windows
Spend a little bit of money on pixelmator, you’ll be glad you did. If you can afford a mac you’ll find that buying pixelmator to replace gimp is worth it.
Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
The regular pixelmator is also available for half the price.
Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
#84I 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…
> 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's completely and utterly indistinguishable from a native app on my PC (Firefox 57.0.4 (64-bit) on Windows 10). First thing I noticed was how smooth and flawless it was, even when I expand the canvas and go crazy with every single tool to make a big mess, it didn't slow down once.
Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
#85Funny but I would really appreciate a good Paint.Net remake (usable on Mac, Linux and OpenBSD) more.
Pinta comes close to that, and is free software, unlike Paint.NET. https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/
I thought Paint.NET was free, just not OSS? I installed it on a machine a few weeks ago, no payment changed hands..
Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
#86Oh My, so many memories, so many hours spent on this program. Such a fan of MSPaint, thank you for doing this, absolute hero!
Few nitpicks and more of showing off how much I care and love what you've done:
* polygon is antialiasing - it shouldn't * rubber cursor is wrong * circle and rounded rectangle tools are filling their insides when they shouldn't * Text works in zoom mode - it didn't used to (not sure if bug or feature) * Color picker is way too modern :D
But man, even stretch/skew are implemented, awesome job!
Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
#87Earlier 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.
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
Ya I agree I don't remember that YouTube tutorial I watched to figure out how to crop and paste
Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
#88I 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…
Although it's probably illegal, I've been waiting for a port for years. I'm sad the one that finally did it chose js.
Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
#89The most valuable thing to me about MS Paint is the ability to print screen, CROP the largely extraneous material, and post, embed, or transmit the result. Where is crop? I am not interested in the drawing with a bar of soap aspect. At all.
Paint didn’t have the ability to crop to a selection until the Windows 7 redesign of the app with its ribbon UI (not sure about the Vista version of Paint, which is halfway between the XP and the 7 versions); JS Paint has copied the XP and earlier design, not the newer. You can still crop, but only from the bottom or right, because you’re using the canvas resize handles instead. Concerning your specific task: I’d say…
Agreed on Snipping Tool - win + shift + s is a daily driver for me. I really want to find the person who made it a shortcut and thank them.
Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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)
Lazpaint seems another handy option. I used it for years.