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

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I never got people's love of MS Paint. There is so little it could do, and it didn't always want.to play nice with modern image formats.

Nostalgia. Many of us spend hours making drawings as a kid, since it was basically the only thing to do next to mine sweeper. Just like we all miss clippy, useless as he was.

But even then, MS Paint was pretty much a copy of 1984's MacPaint, which pioneered that type of program.

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

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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…

> (e.g. Preview

View > Show Markup Toolbar

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

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post #99

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Protip: get an SSD. It improves your life in many ways. Three examples I notice between my girlfriend's HDD-based laptop and my SSD-based one: - A game, Factorio, takes literally 5 minutes for her to get to the main menu. For me it takes about 30 seconds. - Using `time gimp` and hitting alt+F4 immediately, I get about 2.14 seconds. For my girlfriend this indeed takes a little bit, though not a minute. - Booting up (f…

I have SSDs, and GIMP for Windows starts up slower than Eclipse (!). In my experience the Linux version starts up faster than the Windows one.

Up to a minute with SSD? Okay that's odd. I totally see your point.

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

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post #35

Funny 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/

By the way I believe I've found source code of some ancient version of the original Pain.Net and used it (barely working, buggy as hell of hells though still handier than GIMP for quick and simple picture edits) on Linux before I've found Pinta which is, AFAIK, the same code fixed to run correctly on Mono and extended to include some Paint.Net features that have been introduced later.

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

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post #88
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…

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.

Maybe there's some sort of connection? Like maybe the port happened because there was some sort of universal platform where a dedicated developer would be sure to get a large readymade, appreciative audience as opposed to a small group of highly vocal micro-critics. And maybe that was more important to them than whether the language adhered to some paradigm that's really important if you look at things always from a single point of view? I dunno where these thoughts come from...

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

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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…

You could do cropping in Paint since at least the Win95 version. The method was the same I use with Paint to this very day: a combination of canvas resize handles and moving the image contents. Basically, after pasting the picture, I would use the selection that is automatically activated (if you lose it, CTRL+A to select all) to crop out top and left parts of the image, by positioning the top-left corner of what I c…

I'd select the section I'd want to crop, copy it, create a new image, resize it to 1x1 or something else small, then paste. The canvas would automatically resize to fit the pasted selection. It sounds a bit more involved than your version, but for me it worked.

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

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post #112
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…

> (e.g. Preview View > Show Markup Toolbar

Then it still is _very_ limited in what it can do, in my opinion. It's nice for very simple things, but it hasn't become a Paint replacement all of a sudden.

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

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post #74
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…

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

There are a few really good low-ish cost options on Mac. You should take a look at Pixelmator, Acorn and Affinity Photo. I think all have free trials. Out of those, Affinity is the one I use most, but that's because I also really like Affinity Designer (an Illustrator type application).

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

#119
post #73

I never got people's love of MS Paint. There is so little it could do, and it didn't always want.to play nice with modern image formats.

Nostalgia. Many of us spend hours making drawings as a kid, since it was basically the only thing to do next to mine sweeper. Just like we all miss clippy, useless as he was.

I was the only kid in high school allowed to use a laptop in class, because my motor system doesn't really "do" writing but it does typing well enough. I'd spend entire lectures drawing gigantic mazes in MS Paint instead of making notes. To be fair, I would have been drawing mazes if I had to use pen and paper anyway.

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

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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…

Can anyone suggest a small, OSX graphical editor? I really just need one specific thing: "making a negative image".

I have it on IrfanView, but I could not find a simple equivalent on MacOSX.

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