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Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by aragot »

josteink wrote: post #36
acangiano wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My money is on UX. But let's hear it from OP.

While acengiano here is being downvoted, this is really one of my biggest gripes with Gimp. I'm having a terrible user experience. It also doesn't help that I'm already well used to the paint.net/photoshop keyboard shortcuts. Besides Gimp having its own, different keyboard shortcuts, it also has some unique (and again different) conventions for how to use the mouse to select regions and stuff like that. It may be equ…

Gimp shortcuts aren't displayed, most often. Try creating a path and draw a line on it: You'll have to use the mouse very, very often. And you'll only find the shortcuts if you search online.

That's sad because you could be much more efficient with it.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by bad_user »

math wrote: post #63
[deleted] wrote: post #62

[deleted]

"Now why would somebody invest time in something like Paint.NET, freemium, developed by a single guy that may lose interest or vanish tomorrow" Because delivers enormous value, doesn't require much effort to learn, is already mature and um doesn't cost me anything to use?

I deleted my original comment because it was mean and not deserved. However on not costing you anything, software is never free as in cost of ownership. Ask the folks that still suffer after Google Reader.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by dtech »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #60
koesterd wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can use normal Paint (mspaint.exe) since at least Vista to resize and crop pictures, too.

Has been possible in older versions of Paint too, albeit indirectly; select region, copy, file->new, paste.

If that is cropping then Notepad supports code formatting

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by cholmon »

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…

https://imageresizer.codeplex.com/ for simple and quick right-click-to-resize functionality. Works for multiple selected files too.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by FranOntanaya »

XorNot wrote: post #11
spingsprong wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

gThumb has been my favourite for years for quick resize/crop/rotate/white balance edits and image folder browsing. I don't know why it never was picked as default on Linux Desktops.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by laichzeit0 »

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'm too stupid to use Gimp. It's like every time I want to do something I think is really simple (and in other tools it is really simple) takes me longer to do in Gimp. Sometimes I can't get it right, give up and try something else.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by baha_man »

nhebb wrote: post #38
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…

> Its a shame you have to play 'guess the download link' - that has really stopped me from recommending it to people recently. It's one of the tools available on Ninite. Point them there instead: https://ninite.com/ .

Or Chocolatey: http://chocolatey.org/packages/paint.net/

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by mariusmg »

baha_man wrote: post #77
nhebb wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Its a shame you have to play 'guess the download link' - that has really stopped me from recommending it to people recently. It's one of the tools available on Ninite. Point them there instead: https://ninite.com/ .

Or Chocolatey: http://chocolatey.org/packages/paint.net/

Exactly.

cinst paint.net

This is how you should install software on any OS. If you're still hunting for downloading links you're doing it wrong.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by teh_klev »

knocte wrote: post #55

It's a bit sad that this program was open-source once, and then further versions got closed. (It's the other way around to what usually happens!)

There's some history there. Basically a scammer was passing it off as a paid app [1].

See also [2]:

"Excluding the installer, text, and graphics, Paint.NET was released under a modified version of the MIT License.[6] It was initially released as completely open source, but due to breaches of license, all resource files (such as interface text and icons) were released under a Creative Commons license forbidding modification, and the installer was made closed-source.[7]

Version 3.36 was initially released as partial open source, but the sources were later removed by Brewster, citing problems with plagiarism. In version 3.5, the license was altered to reflect this, and users are now prohibited from modifying the software. As free licenses cannot be revoked, developers can still legally develop forks based on version 3.36 and earlier. Brewster later stated that he hopes to release portions of the source code back into the public."

[1]: http://blog.getpaint.net/2007/12/04/freeware-authors-beware-...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint.NET#Overview

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by adam74 »

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…

> Its a shame you have to play 'guess the download link'

getpaint.net > download tab > download now > Free Download Now

That is quite a few clicks.

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