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Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by weef »

morganvachon wrote: post #165
Grue3 wrote: post #112

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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…

The lite vs. pro version is a great suggestion and I would have purchased a pro version for my daughter immediately to avoid the malware hassles it caused us. Instead she purchased an academic version of Photoshop which was $100 USD or in that ballpark. This is a shame because Paint.net is a great product and I'd like to see it succeed but their business side is poorly executed. I'll need to head over to the PDN forums and express my frustration.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by GhotiFish »

bane wrote: post #149
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've been using GIMP for years and if I don't use it for a couple weeks still have to look up in the help where the crop tool is. The GUI is pretty rough to use.

really? I think ive got crop as muscle memory now. shift+c I think...

yup.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by chestnut-tree »

lmm wrote: post #50
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...

Krita is pretty great for simple image editing on Linux (I even use it on Windows sometimes).

Krita is an impressive painting app, but not really designed for photo-editing. The developers of Krita currently have a Kickstarter campaign running to fund new features and possibly port it to the Mac

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krita/krita-open-source...

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by u124556 »

soneca wrote: post #94

Once 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…

What about the Gimp? It can do all Paint.Net does, plus more, also save to PDF and they where adding CMYK support last time I checked.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by sixothree »

woadwarrior01 wrote: post #146
sixothree wrote: post #138

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I wouldn't donate to winrar. The original author died years ago and the program hasn't made any advances since.

I think you're talking about Phil Katz the author of PKZIP and the creator of the zip format. AFAIK, Eugene Roshal, the author of WinRar is still alive and kicking.

It appears you are correct and Wikipedia cites confusion surrounding this issue. Donate away!

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by XorNot »

FranOntanaya wrote: post #75
XorNot wrote: post #11

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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.

On this comment I checked it out and it looks like gthumb does a address a lot of problems. Thanks!

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by ghshephard »

mschaef wrote: post #108
guelo wrote: post #87

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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.

What don't you like about Pixelmator? (I've been thinking of buying it for my MBP...)

One downside of pixelmator (as compared to Acorn) - you can't cut/paste Excel spreadsheets and get all the nice formatting and gridlines - Acorn handles that.

Re: Paint.Net 4.0 is now available

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Post by nashashmi »

CodeCube wrote: post #148
Serow225 wrote: post #91

It would be great if Paint.NET could ship with Windows!

No kidding, if there's any Microsoft acquisition that makes sense, it's this! :P

Rick Brewster is a Microsoft employee and he still collects a paycheck.

But I am pretty sure that people at Microsoft have long forgotten him.

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