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Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by nextlevelwizard »

mschaef wrote: post #15
cabaalis wrote: post #12

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?

Agreed. In fact, I also use OSX a lot, and would love to have 'Paint' there too.

Hopefully not for same purpose as OP, since you can just do cmd+shift+4 and draw the region you want. Maybe Microsoft should implement something like this, so maybe shift+screen shot or something like that would let the user just draw rectangle over what they want captured.

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by DocG »

cabaalis wrote: post #12

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?

I did the same until I discovered that windows has built in snippet tool. Try it out.

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by zavulon »

mschaef wrote: post #15
cabaalis wrote: post #12

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?

Agreed. In fact, I also use OSX a lot, and would love to have 'Paint' there too.

https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by tormeh »

cabaalis wrote: post #12

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?

Use the Snipping Tool.

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by sjwright »

mschaef wrote: post #15
cabaalis wrote: post #12

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?

Agreed. In fact, I also use OSX a lot, and would love to have 'Paint' there too.

It's not paint but Preview.app can crop, edit and annotate screenshots.

A handy tip is to include control in the Mac screenshot keyboard command (e.g. ⌘⇧⌃3) to have the output piped to the clipboard instead of a file. Then in Preview.app, File > New opens the contents of the clipboard in a new window.

While I'm at it, ⌘⇧4 (and ⌘⇧⌃4) lets you interactively select an arbitrary region.

Also ⌘⇧4–Space (and ⌘⇧⌃4–Space) let you grab a single window directly from the compositor. Which means you always get the full window, including its alpha channel. Even if the window is obstructed or partially off-screen, you still get the whole thing including its transparent drop-shadow.

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by Spooky23 »

Makes sense. Microsoft is missing out on recurring revenue. They purged the other image tool (the MS Office one that let you view TIFFs), and now they're killing paint.

I'm sure there will be a Windows 10 Creators Pack for Creation for Personal Users (not to be confused with a creators update) available on 4 different channels for $6.99/mo. The stable branch will not have the ability to open JPEGs or save to a format other than clip art, but a new revisions will be delivered daily.

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by bitJericho »

drawkbox wrote: post #6
saw-lau wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The main issue I have with this is that, like you could guarantee vi/vim being present on any Unix/Linux installation, mspaint.exe would always be present on any Windows installation for easily taking screenshots. When working with locked-down systems, such as we do at work, that was a really useful feature.

Snipping Tool still there for screenshots.

Can't capture a mouse hover with snipping tool.

Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years

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Post by ClassyJacket »

Pica_soO wrote: post #13
av3csr wrote: post #2

There goes my screenshot editing software

My thoughts are with all those help-deskers who will have to explain this to a million people who used this to cut and paste pictures. Microsoft sure likes to put up a rodeo-experience for the customers.

I'm 28 and I'm sure I'll be long dead before any large organizations move past Windows 7.
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