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XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint

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Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint

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Post by Supermancho »

MayeulC wrote: post #26
somehnguy wrote: post #12

This version of MS Paint is like the peak example of covering 99% of basic use cases while being incredibly simple to use. Whenever I need to make an arbitrary image real quick I miss this version of Paint. Nothing else I can find in 2020 even comes close to its intuitive interface.

Kolourpain is better. It does transparency, fill with a configurable distance, and supports more file formats. Other than these, it's quite similar :) https://kde.org/applications/graphics/org.kde.kolourpaint http://www.kolourpaint.org/screenshots.html (that website could use an update...)

Photoshop is better, or should I say https://www.photopea.com/

Is Kolourpaint available as a website I can visit right now? Lots of editors are "better" from a feature standpoint. That's not the feature that is relevant to the discussion.

Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint

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Post by vbezhenar »

JoeSmithson wrote: post #18
smhenderson wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't mspaint in Windows 10 basically the same thing but with a ribbon instead of a toolbar? I don't much care for the ribbon but I'm used to it now. Hitting WinKey-R, mspaint, [Enter] is still my goto for simple picture editing, even just recording a screenshot despite the existence of the snipping tool... Other than the minor annoyance of getting used to the ribbon I felt as if I was still using the same old paint…

Two things I dislike about the new Paint are; 1. Can't select secondary colour with right click 2. Needs way more clicks to get a filled Rectangle

1. Use shift+click.

Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint

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Post by m-p-3 »

somehnguy wrote: post #12

This version of MS Paint is like the peak example of covering 99% of basic use cases while being incredibly simple to use. Whenever I need to make an arbitrary image real quick I miss this version of Paint. Nothing else I can find in 2020 even comes close to its intuitive interface.

If you need just a bit more functionality, I find Paint.NET to be quite good while not too complex.

Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint

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Post by grapeli23 »

microcolonel wrote: post #29
umvi wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I miss this version of Paint Well you are in luck: https://archive.org/details/MSPaintWinXP I use this all the time on my Windows 10 box. Just download, rename to "mspaintxp.exe" and put it in C:\Windows\System32. Optionally update Paint shortcut to point to that one so when you type "Paint" in start menu that's the new default.

If you're looking to run it with Wine, you'll also want a copy of the IA32 version of mfc42u.dll. added: totally necessary proof https://qui.suis.je/drop/peakfun.png

It also works in the browser under JSLinux in Wine (requires mfc42u.dll). https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=alpine-x86-xwin.cfg&...

Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint

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Post by _nickwhite »

In 1993 I was 12 years old and spent many, many hours drawing a pixel-perfect replica of the Mortal Kombat dragon logo in MS Paintbrush (the name of MS Paint at the time). I believe it was a 640x480 BMP. I so wish I had saved a copy of this and all of the other stuff I downloaded off bulletin boards! Stuff like this got me started in web graphics, HTML, and eventually sysadmin.

To this day I still take screenshots (PrtScn) and save them using pbrush (WinKey+R pbrush).

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