Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

Post by vanderZwan » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 8:43 AM UTC

XorNot wrote: post #11

spingsprong wrote: post #6

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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.

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 8:56 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.

Post by mseebach » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 8:57 AM UTC

ghshephard wrote: post #39

dools wrote: post #35

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Preview is a pretty simple image editing tool that ships with OSX

Preview is a markup tool, not an image editing tool. On OS X it is either Acorn (my preferred tool, because you can cut/paste excel spreadsheets into it elegantly), or Pixelmator (which I also use occasionally)

Post by koesterd » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 9:08 AM UTC

codeulike wrote: post #27

I've been in several offices where people think they need Photoshop to crop or resize photos. Consequently no-one has Photoshop (because its expensive) and people end up pasting 2000x800 images of logos into their letterhead and wondering why all the word files got so big. Paint.Net is brilliant for doing common tasks like that. Its a shame you have to play 'guess the download link' - that has really stopped me from…

Post by Rapzid » Wed, Jun 25, 2014, 9:39 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.