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Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by KnightHawk3 »

bad_user wrote: post #72
math wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

But my install of Paint.Net will still work if it disappears tomorrow.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by Infinitesimus »

Grue3 wrote: post #59
richardw wrote: post #48

Worth a donation. This is such an awesome app.

How about donating to some opensource project like Gimp or Krita, so that everyone benefits, not just Windows users?

Maybe because the parent has benefited from Paint.NET and it is logical to support them?

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by quarterto »

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.

Pinta[0] is a decent Paint.NET-inspired Linux image editor.

[0]: http://pinta-project.com/

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by partomniscient »

bad_user wrote: post #72
math wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

How about instead appreciating the different scenario outcomes between stand-alone OS-native installable software and "software as a service", and then the variations within each - a multidimensional hue with Stallman GNU/Open Source/BSDs/Linux etc. close to each other at one bundle of ends, nowhere near the Googles, Apples, Oracles and Microsofts etc. at various others, surrounding a kind of "works on my machine(s)" conglomeration in the middle with varying levels of documentation and support.

The more rugs that get pulled from under you, the more you appreciate what your abdication of control loses you and the experience gained hopefully makes your next decision a wiser one.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by hereonbusiness »

omnibrain wrote: post #22

My GF is a teacher who did some graphics design and typesetting part-time during her time at the university. She used the Adobe products of course. When teaching at a school for the first time, and doing image manipulation with the pupils, she had to use Gimp because it is free and because of that the "oficially recommended" program. She had real trouble adjust to the GUI and teaching it to her pupils and at the same…

I agree the GIMP developers are missing out on a big opportunity by not making their UI look/behave more like the commercial products people are used to. But on the other side there are a lot of people used to the current GIMP UI as well.

Good thing there are projects like Gimpshop (though I havent' tried it yet), GIMP is a open source project so I don't see why we wouldn't have multiple UI's just like there are for Linux, KDE, GNOME, Xfce, ... as long as the core remains the same.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by guelo »

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...

I actually run paint.net inside a windows vbox on OS X. Pixelmator doesn't cut it. People say paint.net is simple but it's actually very powerful. It's just designed so well that it fools people into thinking it's simple.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by Serow225 »

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...

I've used Paintbrush for this use case because it gets the job done and is free; it hasn't been updated in a while but still seems to work fine under Maverick.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by viraptor »

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...

When it was first released, it worked quite well under mono on Linux. (so I guess also on Macs, but I never tried) Is that not the case anymore?

Edit: The Internets claim that ported paint.net 3 exists as paint.mono. Not version 4 though :(

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by tinco »

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...

The OSX alternative is Seashore. It's got the same goal as Paint.Net, to be a simple and easy to use image editor and is based on gimp, so it's stable and supports many things.

I'm not sure there's a similar project for Linux.

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