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Microsoft Paint Is Deprecated in Fall Creators Update
- warrenm 9y agoBut how will I edit screenshots?
- positivecomment 9y agoShareX! https://getsharex.com/ https://getsharex.com/ (Uses greenshot for editing)
- badlucklottery 9y agoIf you just need to crop the image or something basic like that, the built-in "Photos" app might work.
- linker3000 9y agohttp://getgreenshot.org/ http://getgreenshot.org/ Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows with the following key features: * Quickly create screenshots of a selected region, window or fullscreen; you can even capture complete (scrolling) web pages from Internet Explorer. * Easily annotate, highlight or obfuscate parts of the screenshot. * Export the screenshot in various ways: save to file, send to printer, copy to clipboard, attach to e-mail, send Office programs or upload to photo sites like Flickr or Picasa, and others. ...and a lot more options simplyfying creation of and work with screenshots every day.
- piracyde25 9y agoUsing Snipping Tool helps me a lot. Plus, it requires less steps to produce a simple screenshot; select area and you're good to go.
- bartread 9y agoI agree but it's not so good if you want to add anything to the screenshot afterwards in terms of annotations, outlines, or whatever. I'll often snip with Snipping tool and then paste into Paint for "post-processing".
- g00n 9y agoA more capable replacement in the store for free would make up for this. I usually install gimp, but rarely use it for more than quick crops and some brightness adjustments. So, lighter than gimp, more capable than paint...
- manduz 9y agogimp is cancer. gimp does not start instantly. gimp tools description and how you handle they is trash. fuck gimp.
- detaro 9y agoPaint.net or IrfanView come to mind
- mrkrabo 9y agoThere probably is a replacement in the store already, but being frank, I hate all store apps. The only store app I use is the calculator, because I'm forced to (the classic calculator was removed), and I hate that it takes a few seconds to start up. We're going backwards.
- wfunction 9y agoI never use the calculator except on a brand new installation where I have to compute sector offsets or something. Use the PowerToy calculator from Windows XP. You can either run it in compatibility mode or patch it so that it doesn't check the Windows version (exercise left for the reader). Alternatively, use a third-party program like SpeedCrunch.
- g00n 9y agoI tend to use Google to calculate, if posed correctly it will even infer formulas and give you the result. But when I needed math done for me I was also waist deep in Excel all day long and could figure anything I needed.
- wfunction 9y agoThis is awful. I use Paint all the time. Anyone know of a comparable alternative? (I mean that starts up in a blink, that my grandma could use, and that can do more or less everything Paint can. Very much preferably not depending on frameworks like Java or .NET or Python, since none of those start in a blink, and they also often don't feel "native", if you know how to notice that kind of thing.)
- copx 9y agoPaint.NET actually starts up instantly these days on a half-way modern computer. If you turn off the "Automatically check for updates when paint.net starts" option at least. Also .NET is "native" on Windows.
- chrisper 9y agoWell, there is Paint .NET (https://www.getpaint.net/ https://www.getpaint.net/) and it looks native. Sadly, you don't want any framework. So I doubt you will find any alternative. Not sure how much the new Paint 3D is actually replacing it.
- blub 9y agoThe author of Paint.NET purposefully included ads on their website which looked like download buttons. That should tell one all they need to know about Paint.NET (and Windows freeware).
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- gallerdude 9y agoMan, MS Paint is basically internet culture, it's a shame they're killing it.
- senectus1 9y agoThe thing I love MS Paint for is this: https://infamoussyn.com/2013/03/19/gain-command-prompt-access-via-mspaint/ https://infamoussyn.com/2013/03/19/gain-command-prompt-acces... Such an insane vulnerability...
- vxNsr 9y agoIf CMD access is disabled you still won't be able to launch no matter whether you try opening it with a batch file or from the start menu.
- IncRnd 9y agoExcept that this isn't a vulnerability! This is a just a way to write a batch file that runs cmd.exe.
- grenoire 9y agoI don't think that's really a vulnerability. It's just a stupid fun way to write `cmd.exe`. You can open up Notepad and write a batch file there too.
- tehabe 9y agoI think it is more interesting that Windows 10 still includes code for Outlook Express.
- NKCSS 9y agoMakes me sad; it's still the go-to tool to paste screenshots in, do cutting if need be and adding a small shape. The near-instant startup helps a lot.
- rl3 9y agoI use it exactly for this. Paste screenshot, crop as needed, and save out to PNG. It opens fast, unlike heavyweight image editors. It's also fantastic for "annotating" images. MS Paint saves one from having to print an image out, scrawl unseemly things on it in crayon, and then scan it back in. If you're bad enough with the 1px pencil tool, that works just as well!
- AlfeG 9y agoI use ShareX for those kind of functionality - it's free and opensource
- strictnein 9y agoYou can do I think all of that with the built in Snipping Tool. Except you can crop while taking the screenshot, so you save a step.
- piracyde25 9y agoThey should add these in Snipping Tool
- dtmmax33 9y agoNo! Way back in the day when I did consumer tech support, I would occasionally get a call about Paint taking forever to open (this was on Win 3.1) After some troubleshooting, figured out that they had the canvas size set to some extremely large value, like 3000x3000 or something (that was large back then.)
- verytrivial 9y agoHow does this benefit the average (or newbie or advanced) user?
- skrebbel 9y agoThis is ridiculous. I know people on OSX who miss Windows and regret the choice, solely because of MS Paint. Let's petition they open source it. In the new Microsoft, this might actually stand a chance.
- wruza 9y agopixlr.com/editor (I'm not affiliated in any way.) "OSX paint" Also there are free paints out there, so you actually have to ask Apple to include, not Microsoft to opensource
- Odenwaelder 9y agoMy professor is going to be pissed that his main tool for drawing scientific figures will be gone.
- comstock 9y agoyep, people have created amazing works of art in paint too. Simply because it was all that was available to them. One of my favorites is this illustrated comic novel: https://qz.com/983188/this-stunning-graphic-novel-was-entirely-illustrated-using-microsoft-paint/ https://qz.com/983188/this-stunning-graphic-novel-was-entire...
- ghostwreck 9y agoIt looks like it will be replaced by Paint 3D? Newer, more powerful Paint! Sounds like a good thing to me.
- Odenwaelder 9y agoPaint 2017 Community Edition
- dingo_bat 9y agoPaint 3D is a waste compared to Paint.
- k__ 9y agoSad. Just last week me and my girlfriend were blown away when we used paint on a surface with pen and pressure control.
- staticelf 9y agoWhy is people so upset by this? Paint3D is still there and works great. But they should open source it.
- interfixus 9y agoFor cropping, conversion, quick fixes and basic annotation there's the insanely versatile XnView. I am on Linux, and XnViewMP is the only non-OS code I run - for the sheer convenience of it. There are any number of lightweight bitmap-editors available on the Windows platform. A thing like PhotoScape will sceenshoot, edit, crop, and whatever, all in one easy bundle.
- johanvts 9y agoFrom the comments I get the feeling that paint is going away. But they are not removing it as far as I can tell, it is just not under active development.
- Illniyar 9y agoHas it actually been under active development previously? It looks and feels mostly the same as the win 3.1 one (except maybe putting the actions in a ribbon UI)
- SmellyGeekBoy 9y agoA very rare case (especially for Microsoft) of the "If it ain't broke" rule.
- maouida 9y agoUsually I use Paint.NET for quick edits and Microsoft Snip[1] (not Snipping Tool) for screenshots. [1] https://mix.office.com/snip https://mix.office.com/snip
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoPinta is a great open-source Paint-replacement: https://pinta-project.com https://pinta-project.com
- brador 9y agoAn OS should be a blank system for running applications. Less bloat is always better, and if anyone wants to paint there is no shortage of art applications to install and use at your leisure.
- klaustopher 9y agoAlso ... They remove `syskey.exe`... What will all those Windows Support scammers use in the future to lock machines when their "customers" don't cooperate? If you don't know what this is about, just put syskey in your youtube search ;)
- kyriakos 9y agoEnd of an era. p.s. Paint.net is now part of the Windows Store
- kyriakos 9y agowhile you could install Paint.net or another alternative, IT departments block Windows Store from their machines meaning having something built in really did make a difference.
- animal531 9y agoYou also get old grouches like me that refuse to touch Win Store, we don't want to get our hands dirty.
- Const-me 9y agoI don’t care about paint, I use paint.net anyway. But I’m disappointed with this: > System Image Backup (SIB) Solution > We recommend that users use full-disk backup solutions from other vendors. > Deprecated Sure, low-level system tools such as image backups are pain to support. But so far, Microsoft did better job than other vendors did. It’s much easier to break Windows restoring from a third-party backup like Acronis. Microsoft appears to consistently do better with GPT layouts, UEFI system partitions, and other stuff used by modern Windows installations. Also, Microsoft’s backup writes VHD images, and the built-in disk management tool can mount these images to access the data. With some setup, Windows can even boot directly from a VHD image, natively, i.e. without virtualization involved. Not the case with third party disk image formats.
- nikbackm 9y agoToo bad Magnifier wasn't on that list.