Weird, in the comments i almost don't see paint dot net ( https://www.getpaint.net/ ) get mentioned? Awesome free tool, between paint and photoshop. Support for layers, ...
Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
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Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#42There is a whole subculture of artists who use MS paint as a means to make a specific form of art. Also this actually saddens me that sure there could be other low budget tools but without one baked into the OS think about the kid bored in school who can no longer stumble into mspaint and start doodling in class.
Paint 3D is now preinstalled on Windows 10
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I use Alt-PrtSc to just capture the current window, which is a good start. Specific regions would be even better though (although the Snipping Tool can do this).
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#44Question is why does MS after 32 years still include incredible WEAK tools like Paint and Notepad? They should spent a little and buy up some of the great tools out there and include them in windows.
This might help explain why they won't go down this route: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#45Why kill it though? If they were going to replace it with something good enough to challenge Adobe (pls do, they need some competition) then sure. Paint can't need that many maintainers?
Because they've already replaced it with Paint 3D
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#46Question is why does MS after 32 years still include incredible WEAK tools like Paint and Notepad? They should spent a little and buy up some of the great tools out there and include them in windows.
Notepad is "weak" for a reason: it aims for absolutely minimal dependencies so that it can still be used for system recovery when everything else has gone to hell in a handbasket.
Hard to make that argument for Paint though, I'll grant you.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#47What alternatives does Windows have built-in? I use mspaint a fair amount to black out sensitive areas of screenshots or for cropping images to a specific size (scale then shave x pixels off the sides to get a specific aspect ratio), but not often enough that I feel like setting up an alternative on all my machines.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#48Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
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) le…
Is there a Preview.app equivalent for Windows these days? It was one of my favorite new tools when I switched to Mac back in the day, because for windows I had to download special 'see all types of files + basic editing' programs.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#50Off 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 never updated for Windows 10. I still use it as I don't like using Edge for PDFs and Ebooks. Nothing wrong with it, but I hoard a lot of tabs and every time I open a PDF several tabs will open up. Would really like my browser and ebook / PDF viewer to be separate apps.
/rant
also RIP Paint. Gave me great joy as a kid and the constraints challenged me in fun ways to create 'interesting' art