Yes, anti-aliased selections! I love Paint.NET. It suits all my image editing needs completely. I've been using it for over 2 years. It's my go-to image editing program and I recommend it to anyone who wants a professional, feature-full, and free tool.
Paint.Net 4.0 is now available
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#162Paint.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 agree. I went all Linux years ago, and Paint.NET, minesweeper, and Irfanview are the major things that I miss. GIMP doesn't take that long to start now, though. I missed Paint.NET a lot more when the GIMP took longer to load.
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#163Yes, anti-aliased selections! I love Paint.NET. It suits all my image editing needs completely. I've been using it for over 2 years. It's my go-to image editing program and I recommend it to anyone who wants a professional, feature-full, and free tool.
Ah, excellent! I used to always use the feather selection tool but this should be more helpful.
Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available
#164Paint.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.
I'm with you, Pixelmator is a bundle of aggravation. I can't stand it.
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My daughter accidentally downloaded 6 different programs while trying to download Paint.net some which were malware. While I understand these are ads probably out of their control, their website is extremely deceptive in my opinion and should be modified to make the actual Paint.net download more obvious.
I'm pretty sure these ads are exactly what they are to maximize click-rate, and therefore to give Paint.NET's author the most money. Very exploitative (with emphasis on exploit).
What I find interesting is that when people go to the PDN forums to call him out on it, even in a nice way ("hey, I love your software but I got a bunch of malware instead due to the big fake buttons, just wanted you to know"), he blasts them and whines about how little money he makes off of a project he pours his life into, and how he's going to just quit because it's not worth the hassle anymore.
Then he releases a new version, makes even bigger buttons that lead to even scummier malware, and the cycle repeats.
I get the need to make money off of your hard work, and certainly the guy does a fantastic job on the software, but he's pulling some really shitty tactics to make that money. Why not a lite/pro version setup, or something else above board?
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Oh yes. Users who don't know how to crop a photo w/out Photoshop are totally using a Package Manager and the command line to install stuff. Chocolatey is great, but unfortunately package managers don't work for every piece of software on every OS. Period.
How are app stores (something which users are used to already) different from package managers with a user-friendly GUI?
I think the big difference is that they come with the OSes that those types of people are likely to use. And being stores, they provide software that package managers are unlikely to provide.
I think package managers becomes less useful to average users when you can't expect all of your software to be there.
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Maybe. Myself I just used the "If you’re using Paint.NET v3.5.x, go to the Utilities menu and click on “Check for Updates.” path. I would also like to have a confirmation from HN if the developer indeed make a living only out of Paint.NET.
The developer of Paint.NET works for Microsoft. Thus, he does not "make a living only out of Paint.NET." Of course, that does not say whether or not he could live off Paint.NET if he wanted to.
thanks!
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> 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.
Let me show you what it looks like without adblock: http://imgur.com/a/kuKqo
For three years I worked for a company that actually created and distributed the fake download button ads (along with a wide variety of other "interesting" projects). I even designed some of the creatives during early A/B tests. And even I still click the wrong link on occasion.
Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available
#169Once I read somewhere that Paint.NET developer is the only in the interwebs than can make a living out only of donations for his software. I don't know if this is true, but it is totally deserved. I use Paint.NET for a lot of things, most of them professionally. If I someday get lucky in this startup lottery thing, I intend to donate some thousands of dollars. EDIT for add: I see a lot of comments talking about using…
Actually RGB is better for professional printing. Printers typically have specific colour profiles for their printers and converting your CMYK profile to their CMYK profile will usually result in differences you weren't expecting. RGB -> CMYK (@ the printer) will be closer to what you expect (what you saw on screen).
Sorry, but this makes no sense. You have the same issues with portably reproducing colours with RGB that you have with CMYK. Either way, unless you're working with calibrated hardware and explicit colour management, you don't have much chance of getting a printer to reliably reproduce what you saw on your screen; sometimes it simply isn't possible, because your RGB and CYMK representations aren't going to support exactly the same gamut.