Paint.net was the program to get me into graphic design. I hold this, and Notepad++ as the killer apps for Windows.
Paint.net
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#72Paint.net is the one thing I missed when I switched from Windows to Mac when M1 came out. It's a brilliant quick photo editor. People say to use Pinta on Mac but it's not the same. The closest I've found is Pixelmator Pro, which is also awesome, but is not free and quite a bit heavier than Paint.net.
yes, and it's the same for foobar2000 some software can't be replaced and don't have good enough alternatives, and prevent me from switch to linux windows is getting worse, but not bad enough to justify me switching to linux, exactly because of those softwares it's odd in a way, because the free software for windows is generally higher in quality that the one I find on linux. And Gimp will never replace paint.net. In…
This is from when I was using Linux full-time around 2010, but I was a foobar2000 user on Windows and wound up using Quod Libet as the best Linux-side replacement for it I could find. It wasn't a perfect substitute, but it worked for my needs.
(Some searching suggests that DeaDBeeF might be an even closer match these days, but it was brand new and I didn't hear about it back then.)
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#73paint.net is one of the only pieces of software that I miss from Windows. After having started with Tux Paint, I found paint.net extremely intuitive and easy to use (very nice for making goofy memes in middle/high school, and quick/easy drawings). I think that even after not having used it for years I am still more productive in it than I am in, say, Photoshop or GIMP.
I enjoy kolourpaint. Its quite similar to the old windows paint before it started adding layers and whatever else in 7+.
If only there was KolourPaint for macOS. Recently switched to Mac and I really miss simple editor for quick editing (crop image, add another one, add text... in short: making low-effort memes).
Upd: looks like it might be possible in the future [1]
[1]: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/kolourpaint/-/merge_requests...
Re: Paint.net
#74Paint.net is the one thing I missed when I switched from Windows to Mac when M1 came out. It's a brilliant quick photo editor. People say to use Pinta on Mac but it's not the same. The closest I've found is Pixelmator Pro, which is also awesome, but is not free and quite a bit heavier than Paint.net.
I switched over to pixlr web apps and I love them - definitely recommend checking them out. I pay for premium (like $3/mo maybe) purely because I want to support them, not for the features.
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#76It is a great piece of software but annoying that you can't edit text.
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#77I use a Mac now, but have a Windows VM running in Parallels. Paint.net is one of the first apps I installed on that VM. It's ridiculously easy and intuitive.
The closest program I've found for Mac is Pixelmator Pro, but it's not free, and the UI/workflow is more complex in my opinion. Paint.NET is still one of my favorite pieces of software on Windows.
Neither is Parallels, and if you are on Mx on Apple, you need to also buy Windows for Arm
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#78Been using paint.net for years. The only downside it has is mentioning it's name, because people keep going to the completely unrelated "paint.net" website. Super fucking annoying. Anyhow, the only paint program I've used in years. I consider it to be the modern Deluxe Paint ][. Can't get anyone to use it though, because they're all clueless normies stuck in the belief they need to use PhotoShop for everything . If t…
I fully agree with a lot of that. It's the modern Deluxe Paint in a lot of ways.
I've had web developers hear "paint.net" and think Microsoft Paint (maybe the ".net" makes them think Microsoft), and why am I using something so basic?
> insane amount of people who buy an expensive DSLR
I'm not with you at all on that one. DSLR sales have plummeted every year for the last decade. "Normies", as you put it, think their smartphone camera is a high-end camera and all they could possibly ever need for taking top-quality photographs. The appalling noise their tiny sensors produce seems to have become so normalised, they don't even notice.
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#79Recently I’ve been using Photopea and it has been excellent. Web based and very full featured
Re: Paint.net
#80Paint.net is the one thing I missed when I switched from Windows to Mac when M1 came out. It's a brilliant quick photo editor. People say to use Pinta on Mac but it's not the same. The closest I've found is Pixelmator Pro, which is also awesome, but is not free and quite a bit heavier than Paint.net.
I am not sure how it compares to recent versions of Paint.NET, but on my Apple desktop computer, I like to use Aseprite [0] (which is also not free). At the very least, Aseprite seems to have more features compared to the Paint.NET version that came with my Windows 10 installation (I think).
It's more of a graphic program for game design, but still very good in my opinion. And multiplatform, so usable on Windows and Linux as well.
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