Imagine an Electron app of this! Then JS paint could be run right from the desktop.
JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
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Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
#242I love this! Genius! I personally use Figma ( http://figma.com ) - which is an incredible vector drawing tool!
Been using Figma for a while now for prototyping, drawing etc. It's really easy to learn and use and has great features. e.g. multiplayer mode.
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I solved my needs with https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/ and http://projects.apricus.be/en/xnconvert/ (looks like "negative" is not available in xnview, or I was unable to find it at least). Thanks!
When you double click one of the images displayed in xnviewmp the image opens in a window and then under the 'Image' menu item, there is a submenu named 'Map'. Selecting the Map submenu opens a list of functions that can be performed on the image, and one of them is 'Negative'.
I only spent like five minutes with it and then I tried donwloading xconvert.
(I am part of the "read the docs only too late if ever" crew).
Thanks a lot!
Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
#244I 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…
On Windows I've been using Paint.NET for years now. It's absolutely brilliant. Lightweight editing with quite a bit of extra features like properly working undo. Free, lots of updates, good UX. I use it at least few times a week. Recently I've been on OS X a lot, and I wasn't able to find a suitable replacement. Like, nothing even remotely close. Quite a shame. Same story for Linux.
On Mac, I personally like Pixelmator for pixel level editing. It feels a bit like the old versions of Photoshop which always did the job for me. At thirty bucks, it's also pretty affordable.
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Pinta is a good alt for Linux.
Too bad it is built on mono. I'd have to install ~200MB of dependencies for a 2.5MB application.
I don't get this complaint. Do you have a 400MB HDD or something? 220MB of HDD or SSD probably cost less than a roll of toilet paper.
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> until the present web fads go away I don't see that happening. Web apps gave us an environment where it's easy to create complex applications quickly. Now efforts are going towards making these apps smaller and faster, but I don't see developers going back to C++ to develop GUI apps like this one.
Java gave us an environment where it was easy to create complex applications quickly as well. The web will fade away just like Java did.
The web is 10 times more entrenched than Java. I think you're underestimating it, badly.
Java was pushed just by Sun/Oracle. The web has at least 20 big parties that are promoting it: Google, Mozilla, Amazon, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc.
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Too bad it is built on mono. I'd have to install ~200MB of dependencies for a 2.5MB application.
I don't get this complaint. Do you have a 400MB HDD or something? 220MB of HDD or SSD probably cost less than a roll of toilet paper.
You're assuming that I have an infinite amount of disk space to dedicate to arbitrarily large frameworks that are 'required' by simple applications. If every app you used required 200MB of baggage to run, you'd quickly run out of disk space. I'd rather use my disks to store more valuable things, and, on another note, most definitely do not want to encourage the proliferation of .NET/mono.
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
Too bad it is built on mono. I'd have to install ~200MB of dependencies for a 2.5MB application.
I don't get this complaint. Do you have a 400MB HDD or something? 220MB of HDD or SSD probably cost less than a roll of toilet paper.
Plenty of people have sub 200GB hard drives.
Visit your favourite website and have a look.
Here's a bunch of new products under 249 GB: https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&I...
note that some of these only have 64 GB.
For these people every bit of storage is useful.
Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
#249I love how the filesystem stuff is handled! Very smooth, with Open/Save acting like a native application.
It's not acting like a native application, the open file dialog is the native open file dialog that'll display differently depending on the OS/platform you're on.
Re: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake
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> 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…
On my Macbook Air, with Chrome and High Sierra it managed to crash Chrome impressively and force quit and hitting restart failed to do much. I actually had to hit the power button which is kind of unusual on a Macbook.