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On Windows 10 try: WIN+SHIFT+S to get instant screen clipping and paste it to e.g. Twitter or whatever.
This is the OneNote screen clipping tool. If you don't have Office, Win+Shift+S doesn't do anything. This is a super useful tool, but most often I paste into mspaint and mark up from there.
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Preview.app fucking sucks. There are a handful of truly obnoxious sins that OS X commits, and not providing a graphics editing application with full access to the pixel raster is one of them. Other sins include no trivial click path to instantiating an empty file on the desktop. One must open an application and either issue a command ( touch or similar) or save an empty file with the application used (TextEdit.app fo…
What do you need empty files for?
The other workaround I use is to copy and paste the path from the explorer window
This is silliness. I Win+R, mspaint at least 10 times a day. I paste in screenshots and quickly cut out just a portion of them. Or leave the screenshot there for later review. Why don't they just remove the file browser? Or how about mouse support?
Win > "snip" >
Pity that they don't open source it. I've gone through multiple image editors on Linux, and none of them have the simplicity of Paint. The layout and functionality is incredibly intuitive. You drop someone into Paint, and even if they've never seen it before, they can start doing stuff within a minute or so. You drop the same person into GIMP, and five minutes later they're still trying to figure out how the hell to…
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The top 'arrow' looks like a sideways J, I assume it's an arrow based on context, but it's not that clear. Which is why it's nice to have a good tool for the job. PS: If you actually do the same thing in paint they have a lot of useful shapes and you get a preview of how they look. Which is nice if you don't want the chicken scratch look.
Well, for anything serious, paint is not good enough. You can't rotate your arrows, for example. If i need to do something well, then I use Paint.net (which is best parts of Paint and Photoshop combined in a free and super fast package). If I need something quick, then I can use the snipping tool. I literally have not turned on paint ever since I discovered windows snipping tool and paint.net (which is couple of year…
Workflow is generally Screenshot, crop, highlight with text / arrow / circle past into email. Paint.net is useful, but not on every windows box and often not worth the download when I 90% of the time I just want to send something to a coworker who might email it to a customer.
Off topic, but what caught my eye in the article was this: > Now Microsoft has announced that, alongside Outlook Express, Reader app and Reading list, Microsoft Paint For those who don't know Reader was introduced in Windows 8 as a PDF reader with annotation support (worked with Stylus in just black colour). I always hoped it would get more features and could become comparable to Preview on Mac. But sadly it was neve…
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You can't draw circles and arrows, etc in that tool though. I need to point out the obvious sometimes. Well, actually most times.
http://imgur.com/a/0oDU7
My use case for Paint is highlighting one off screenshots for clients and the like. Nobody is going to send your sort of screenshot in a professional environment, it looks like it was marked up by a kindergartner.
My workflow: I open up snipping tool, take a screenshot, copy it, paste it in Paint, mark it up quickly (arrow tool or circle/rounded corners tool usually), and either save it or (usually) copy it and paste it into an email or Word Doc. Super easy and quick, I can do this in the time it takes GIMP to load or another program to download, its also always there. I do this on a monthly basis at least.
I've never had to do anything more advanced.
Pity that they don't open source it. I've gone through multiple image editors on Linux, and none of them have the simplicity of Paint. The layout and functionality is incredibly intuitive. You drop someone into Paint, and even if they've never seen it before, they can start doing stuff within a minute or so. You drop the same person into GIMP, and five minutes later they're still trying to figure out how the hell to…
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Agreed! Paint was the only Microsoft product that I actually loved.
They did the same thing with the calculator, turning what is probably the simplest app on the entire computer into a Metro-ified flat-design-meme store-dependent mess for absolutely no benefit.
I've taken to firing up an instance of IDLE instead - which is actually a little nicer in the end
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And it only took them what? 30 years?
They had an issue with abusing monopoly power, once upon a time. It's only recently that people stopped coming at them with torches and pitchforks every time they added a feature found in third-party apps.