Paint.Net 4.0 is now available • Hacker News Board

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by XorNot » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 7:47 AM UTC

spingsprong wrote: post #6

josteink wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There's Gimp but... Yeah. Gimp doesn't really cut it in my books. I'd love to get paint.net running in Linux under Wine, but so far all my attempts have failed.

Just out of curiosity, why doesn't Gimp cut it in your books?

GIMP is too complex (and too slow to startup) for simple image editing tasks.

None of the substitute photo viewer type apps on Linux really seem to stand in particularly well either - I like Shotwell at the moment, but it still lacks an easy to use crop/copy/paste workflow.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by erikpriana » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 7:47 AM UTC

I prefer to use photoshop than using paint

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by pjmlp » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 7:48 AM UTC

dtech wrote: post #5

josteink wrote: post #3

Haven't really tried much yet, but initial impression is that it seems noticeably snappier than the older version. That said, I mostly use it to crop images and highlight regions when documenting bug-reports with screenshots. Most of these enhancements are probably not meant for me :)

The major improvement for everyone is decreased startup time thanks to Multicore JIT. That was one of my few irritations with Paint.NET. Paint.NET should perform better overal thanks to GPU acceleration and multithreaded rendering. I've personally used the alpha's and beta's for a while now and it just feels zippier.

For several years I had put off using Paint.NET over GIMP due to the dependency on .NET, but as soon as I realized that it still managed to outperform GIMP, I moved on the spot.

Still do not get how GIMP gets compiled on Windows to perform so poorly.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by okonomiyaki3000 » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 7:49 AM UTC

In case you don't enjoy clicking through half a dozen pages to get to the download, the actual link is on this page http://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdn.html

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by pjmlp » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 7:50 AM UTC

spingsprong wrote: post #6

josteink wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There's Gimp but... Yeah. Gimp doesn't really cut it in my books. I'd love to get paint.net running in Linux under Wine, but so far all my attempts have failed.

Just out of curiosity, why doesn't Gimp cut it in your books?

For me on Windows it is dog slow, even on i7 system.

Don't get it actually, as it a native code application coded mostly in C, unless Python and Guile plugins now own the majority of the code.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by CmonDev » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 7:52 AM UTC

imdsm wrote: post #10

I had this, but got rid. I find my mastery of regular paint suffices and for anything else, I can hop into Photoshop.

Well, Paint.NET is for people who don't want to buy Photoshop. Adobe products are not priced for people who only use them occasionally.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by rplnt » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 7:54 AM UTC

josteink wrote: post #4

rtpg wrote: post #2

Paint.NET is one of the first things I get when I install windows somewhere. It's actually pretty frustrating that there isn't a nice simple image editing tool like that for Mac (or Linux). There's Gimp but...

> There's Gimp but... Yeah. Gimp doesn't really cut it in my books. I'd love to get paint.net running in Linux under Wine, but so far all my attempts have failed.

I managed to run it using mono. It wasn't flawless.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by codebolt » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 7:54 AM UTC

I appreciate that the author wants to get something back, but really? Why would I have to click through 4 or 5 pages just to get the download started, while nearly being tricked to click several abusive CNET "Download Here!" ads. Free apps like this would make a much more professional impression if they didn't clutter their websites with ads that no one will ever click (except for by mistake).

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by fletchowns » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 7:54 AM UTC

rtpg wrote: post #2

Paint.NET is one of the first things I get when I install windows somewhere. It's actually pretty frustrating that there isn't a nice simple image editing tool like that for Mac (or Linux). There's Gimp but...

You should definitely check out http://pinta-project.com/

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by shurcooL » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 7:55 AM UTC

rtpg wrote: post #2

Paint.NET is one of the first things I get when I install windows somewhere. It's actually pretty frustrating that there isn't a nice simple image editing tool like that for Mac (or Linux). There's Gimp but...

Pixelmator is my go-to OS X alternative.