Seems like they changed their mind https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/07/24/ms-paint-stay/#yb1guwQUEu3iKIl3.97 (https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/07/24/ms-paint-stay/#yb1guwQUEu3iKIl3.97)as good as dead. I do not do stores personally, if something requires me to create an account give out an email address etc I just drop it right there I'm not interesting in tracking any more accounts I have approximately 350 active accounts on around 25 different spam email accounts, that is more than enough for me.
Anyway, i think something like alpha-channel support for PNG's would be welcome addition. Also the latest changes in Paint for Win7 and 10 went backwards, that the mouse sticks to line drawing... and in general the mouse isn't always accurately aligned with pixels ::)I do not know what lazpaint aims for, it sure is not gimp though.
LazPaint seems like aiming to compete with Gimp, instead of being a simple editor.
Indeed LazPaint is far from Gimp. Competing with Gimp has not been the aim as it was a more modest development. However I do not know the future, it depends if we can get together to improve it. Also people do not always have much spare time.
LazPaint is as simple as MS Paint, just more advanced. It's like in between MS Paint and GIMP. I actually endup using KolourPaint more often :-[ (sorry circular) but I keep my LazPaint up to date and check its updates from time to time.Yup. That's what I said. But it can easily be expanded to paint.net or something... We can do that.
A plugin system indeed could help.and a pair of scrollbars couldn't hurt either :P
Take a screenshot and crop it with paint, is faster than any other software.Actually this can be even faster with lazpaint screengrab open lazpaint press ctrl+alt+v, select the region to crop (select\select rectangle) and press image\crop to selection. Its even faster because the selection has a life as an object on the image it does not resize the selection after you release the mouse.
And I read that they will put it in the Store, so it will be another outdated download.Yeah not going to bother creating an account let alone download it.
Of course. It's a matter of habit. I'm used to search for paint first than opening real graphic design tools. Like notepad++ to open quickly any text file, even if I can not do too much with it.I'm using mspaint exclusively for fast little crops and resizes but only because its easier to start it up ee win+r mspaint and you are in. No need to look around for an icon to click or a mouse. I fully agree that habbit is the stronger reason of still using mspaint that and the fact that I dislike GTK+ application.
as good as dead. I do not do stores personally, if something requires me to create an account give out an email address etc I just drop it right there I'm not interesting in tracking any more accounts I have approximately 350 active accounts on around 25 different spam email accounts, that is more than enough for me.
how about http://wiki.freepascal.org/LazPaint? (http://wiki.freepascal.org/LazPaint?)Latest sources on sourceforge are 6.4.1 from 2016
I think it can be converted to portable easily.
Seems like circular is moving everything to github. I don't blame him it is far easier to manage than sf.how about http://wiki.freepascal.org/LazPaint? (http://wiki.freepascal.org/LazPaint?)Latest sources on sourceforge are 6.4.1 from 2016
I think it can be converted to portable easily.
I failed to compile them with trunk & 1.8rc3 are there some actual sources out there ?
(without those deprecated UTF8 - functions ?)
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github-trunk seems ok.
GIMP needs approx. 4 seconds if I use -D -S...
"C:\Program Files\GIMP 2.8\bin\gimp-2.8.exe" -d -s
Without this it's §#*³%&^ grrrrrr.... or something like that... :D
I wonder why GIMP needs so long to start on Windows. On my Linux Core2 Quad CPU, it only takes 7-8 seconds. GIMP long startup time (1 - 3 minutes) really is a turn off for Windows users to use GIMP. How about Photoshop, people always compare GIMP with Photoshop. How long does it need to start? I haven't use Photoshop for a very long time.That depends - when was that not the case? !! - on occasion I fume at the 2+ minutes (or more) Photoshop takes to do it's initialization and housekeeping but I've just timed it re-starting after closing it down and it was less than 4 seconds. Presumably that was because it left certain parameters in memory on close down and found them 'OK' when restarting.
Of course. It's a matter of habit. I'm used to search for paint first than opening real graphic design tools. Like notepad++ to open quickly any text file, even if I can not do too much with it.I'm using mspaint exclusively for fast little crops and resizes but only because its easier to start it up ee win+r mspaint and you are in. No need to look around for an icon to click or a mouse. I fully agree that habbit is the stronger reason of still using mspaint that and the fact that I dislike GTK+ application.
I'm really surprised Krita wasn't mentioned already.1). Thank you for that I did not know krita I'll have to evaluate it.