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I haven't used Windows as a primary OS for years. I miss having MSPaint around for small edits, and have yet to find a suitable replacement. Other apps either h

by barbs 9y ago

I haven't used Windows as a primary OS for years. I miss having MSPaint around for small edits, and have yet to find a suitable replacement. Other apps either have too few features (e.g. Preview) or too many (GIMP), or the interface doesn't feel right. It might just be because I'm used to it after using it for years when I was younger, but MSPaint's interface just makes sense, and it hits the sweet spot of features for quick, simple edits. This feels very similar to the original, and after a quick playthrough seems feature-complete. Well done! I'm not sure how I feel about it being web-based but I guess in this day and age it just makes it more accessible. I see there's a Chrome app, but the link is broken (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dgfedgcofbjmeohonbpcoagiabgnddjh https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dgfedgcofbjmeohonb...)

alanbernstein 9y ago
I'm in the same boat. I often use http://kolourpaint.org/ http://kolourpaint.org/ in linux, and https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/ https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/ in OSX.
ekianjo 9y ago
Have you tried mtpaint? http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/
- chungy 9y ago
  mtPaint has pretty poor usability compared to MS Paint. ReactOS has its own Paint, I wonder... it may be simple to compile it through winelib, or just run it directly via Wine. That'd be a pretty quick and legal way to get a functionally-identical clone.
  - Klonoar 9y ago
    Mmmm this works fine in MacOS (I did it years ago with the MS Paint binary). Screenshot: https://rymc.io/mspaintosx.png https://rymc.io/mspaintosx.png
  - hjek 9y ago
    I think the non-web app that comes closest to MS Paint in functionality is GrafX2. Only other paint program I've seen that has selection-as-a-brush. http://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2 http://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2 The interface is a bit different than MS Paint but it has these absolutely wild features, like colour cycling, where the colours can change while you're painting, which can be fairly psychedelic. GrafX2 is more of a clone of DeluxePaint for Amiga. I'm no fan of mtPaint either.
  - duozerk 9y ago
    The MS version at least can be wined without issue. However, there are tons of lightweight image editors that run as fast as MS paint and offer more features; have you tried Pinta ? or gnome-paint ?
  - edflsafoiewq 9y ago
    I disagree about usability. Probably most people just used MS Paint first. MS Paint has different tools and different brush-tip (widths) for pencil/brush/spray-can/eraser that all do essentially the same thing (okay, the eraser's right click mode is different, but hardly anyone knows about it), and then the line/curve/box tools all have _their_ own width. This is all unified into one global brush/pattern option in mtPaint that everything uses. The zoom levels are better too. I think the only thing that's not obvious in mtPaint is the eyedropper. The one thing I like in MS Paint is the controls to resize the canvas near its edges. Most other programs make you go through a dialog or select and then trim to selection.
mehrdadn 9y ago
> I see there's a Chrome app, but the link is broken (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dgfedgcofbjmeohonbpcoagiabgnddjh https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dgfedgcofbjmeohonb...) I think Chrome apps were deprecated a few weeks/months ago.
- notatoad 9y ago
  Chrome apps are still a thing, chrome packaged apps were deprecated (unless you're on Chrome OS), so the type of chrome app that remains is essentially just a bookmark distributed through an app store. You're not missing out on anything by that link being broken.
eropple 9y ago
I mostly use Pixelmator for that sort of thing on OS X. It's like $20, but I also bought it about five years ago, so it's a sunk cost!
- Yaggo 9y ago
  Pixelmator is crazy cheap for its features and polishness. Edit: seems to be $60 now for "Pro" version, whatever that means, but still cheap. My only wish is svg export¹. [1] http://www.pixelmator.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7663&sid=88081726825de95bb341dafe5d68e7af&start=100 http://www.pixelmator.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7663...
  - Joeri 9y ago
    The regular pixelmator is also available for half the price.
iandanforth 9y ago
I regularly use http://www.pixlr.com/editor/ http://www.pixlr.com/editor/
- madmax108 9y ago
  I used pixlr a lot for a lot of minor editing, but with a new system on which I avoid flash like the plague, it turned out to be (arguably) the only webapp without a flash-free alternative. Now I simply use Adobe Photoshop even for minor edits (Yes, it's bloated, but can't bring myself to install Flash just for one webapp)
badsectoracula 9y ago
> and have yet to find a suitable replacement There are a few, Kolourpaint is pretty much an MSPaint clone for KDE [1] and Paintbrush is the macOS equivalent [2]. There is also Gnome Paint [3], but hasn't seen any update in years. I suppose the closest would be Pinta [4], although that is slightly above MS Paint on the complexity level (probably more comparable to Paint.NET than MS Paint). > I'm not sure how I feel about it being web-based Personally i find it amusing and impressive that this implements a Win95-like GUI (i love Win95's GUI :-P) but at the same time the actual editing feels very slow - painting something takes almost a second to update with the brush being very jumpy, reminding me using ZSoft's PhotoFinish on Windows 3.1 on my 4MB 386:-P. It is also nice that it has implemented the select+shift+drag brush feature that is ignored by almost every other clone i've seen over the years. [1] https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/kolourpaint/ https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/kolourpaint/ [2] https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/screenshots/ https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/screenshots/ [3] https://launchpad.net/gnome-paint https://launchpad.net/gnome-paint [4] https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/ https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/
- dingo_bat 9y ago
  > actual editing feels very slow - painting something takes almost a second to update with the brush being very jumpy, reminding me using ZSoft's PhotoFinish on Windows 3.1 on my 4MB 386:-P. Works as fast as native paint on my laptop. What browser are you using?
  - pluma 9y ago
    Same here: no noticeable lag in Firefox on Ubuntu. I'm guessing Safari on macOS?
    - rangibaby 9y ago
      no problem with Safari+Macos here
  - badsectoracula 9y ago
    Firefox on Linux
colordrops 9y ago
It doesn't take very long at all to get familiar with basic Gimp features. The investment in time is minimal and worth it. You could probably figure how to do everything you can do in MSPaint in Gimp in 20-30 minutes.
- avhon1 9y ago
  Yes, but it can take as much as a minute to open GIMP, which is a lot to ask when you can be working on the same task in MSPaint in a second or two.
  - lucb1e 9y ago
    Protip: get an SSD. It improves your life in many ways. Three examples I notice between my girlfriend's HDD-based laptop and my SSD-based one: - A game, Factorio, takes literally 5 minutes for her to get to the main menu. For me it takes about 30 seconds. - Using `time gimp` and hitting alt+F4 immediately, I get about 2.14 seconds. For my girlfriend this indeed takes a little bit, though not a minute. - Booting up (from cold) is maybe 20 seconds for me. For her, this takes more than a minute on Ubuntu and more like 2-3 minutes on Windows (it boots in the same time as Ubuntu, but then programs need to load which make it slow for another 1-2 minutes). Not everything benefits from it, like web browsing or email is not I/O-bound, but lots of things go a lot faster for the investment. Especially for laptops, it's also quieter, supposedly uses a little less power, and won't die as fast from dropping it. I'd highly recommend it. I'm not putting off your computer as being the blame for GIMP being slow - indeed, it's kinda silly that it takes so long to start, especially the first time - but I just figured you had an HDD and think the vast majority of people will benefit from an SSD. Even my grandma got one a few weeks ago and is super happy with it.
    - jmiserez 9y ago
      I have SSDs, and GIMP for Windows starts up slower than Eclipse (!). In my experience the Linux version starts up faster than the Windows one.
      - 9y ago
qalmakka 9y ago
I've been an almost Linux/BSD user for more than a decade now, and I've always used 32-bit MSPaint from XP without any issue through Wine. Salvage the .exe from a Windows XP install and the necessary MFC .dll, and you're ready to roll.
- zekrioca 9y ago
  I think with Wine you can only save in BMP and PNG? Last time I used Wine to emulate MSPaint, these were the only two formats for saving the files.
itaysk 9y ago
IMO the best painting/lightweight editing tool is paint.net. Since I moved to mac I moved to Gimp and it’s ‘fine’.. but paint.net is really the only tool I’m missing fron windows
- Joeri 9y ago
  Spend a little bit of money on pixelmator, you’ll be glad you did. If you can afford a mac you’ll find that buying pixelmator to replace gimp is worth it.
- adrianoconnor 9y ago
  There are a few really good low-ish cost options on Mac. You should take a look at Pixelmator, Acorn and Affinity Photo. I think all have free trials. Out of those, Affinity is the one I use most, but that's because I also really like Affinity Designer (an Illustrator type application).
NicoJuicy 9y ago
Does paint dotnet work on Linux through Wine?
- ygra 9y ago
  I'd be surprised. Very old versions did work on Mono, but by now it has accumulated quite a bit of code that uses not only Windows Forms, but also WPF, Direct2D and possibly a number of other newer Windows frameworks which I'm not sure Wine provides.
trqx 9y ago
Although it's probably illegal, I've been waiting for a port for years. I'm sad the one that finally did it chose js.
- lucb1e 9y ago
  Shouldn't be hard to turn it into an "application" using Electron or something runs
- scandox 9y ago
  Maybe there's some sort of connection? Like maybe the port happened because there was some sort of universal platform where a dedicated developer would be sure to get a large readymade, appreciative audience as opposed to a small group of highly vocal micro-critics. And maybe that was more important to them than whether the language adhered to some paradigm that's really important if you look at things always from a single point of view? I dunno where these thoughts come from...
- always_good 9y ago
  > I'm sad the one that finally did it chose js. Look how easy it is to shed tears for free stuff you don't personally have the energy to do yourself: You didn't have to lift a finger but to write an internet comment. Just wondering what you think it adds to the discourse.
rplnt 9y ago
On Windows I've been using Paint.NET for years now. It's absolutely brilliant. Lightweight editing with quite a bit of extra features like properly working undo. Free, lots of updates, good UX. I use it at least few times a week. Recently I've been on OS X a lot, and I wasn't able to find a suitable replacement. Like, nothing even remotely close. Quite a shame. Same story for Linux.
- hadrien01 9y ago
  On OS X I really liked using Acorn a few years back.
- Ruphin 9y ago
  There is a Paint.NET remake on Linux called Pinta. Not quite as stable (it struggles with large images), but it has the exact same interface.
  - rplnt 9y ago
    I've tried that, it was maybe 3~5 years ago, and it was quite bad in comparison. Not sure if there was a significant progress since.
  - mwexler 9y ago
    Sadly, I find it struggles with small and medium images as well. But with some tlc, it could become the paint.net we are all hoping for...
- wernsey 9y ago
  I've also switched to Paint.NET. One thing that convinced me to switch was when MS Paint switched to the ribbon interface.
- azeirah 9y ago
  I used to use GIMP, but could never figure out how to use it. Downloaded Paint.NET, it worked _exactly_ as expected. I was able to get running and perform the edits I needed to perform in seconds. I've never had such a positive introduction to a piece of Software, it works _so well_!
lucb1e 9y ago
I was in the same spot. A while ago I took an evening to try and learn doing basic edits in Gimp, and since then I have no trouble with it anymore. Not as bad as Vim, but there's indeed a learning curve to it. Now that I've learned it, though, I would never want Paint again.
matude 9y ago
> (e.g. Preview View > Show Markup Toolbar
- tomsmeding 9y ago
  Then it still is _very_ limited in what it can do, in my opinion. It's nice for very simple things, but it hasn't become a Paint replacement all of a sudden.
Pamar 9y ago
Can anyone suggest a small, OSX graphical editor? I really just need one specific thing: "making a negative image". I have it on IrfanView, but I could not find a simple equivalent on MacOSX.
- placebo 9y ago
  I have IrfanView on Mac (via Wine project) and it works flawlessly. However, if you don't want to install Wine on your OSX, there are other alternatives, some mentioned here already. Personally, I like xnview - its free and probably includes everything you'd want (and supports making a negative image)
  - Pamar 9y ago
    I solved my needs with https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/ https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/ and http://projects.apricus.be/en/xnconvert/ http://projects.apricus.be/en/xnconvert/ (looks like "negative" is not available in xnview, or I was unable to find it at least). Thanks!
    - placebo 9y ago
      When you double click one of the images displayed in xnviewmp the image opens in a window and then under the 'Image' menu item, there is a submenu named 'Map'. Selecting the Map submenu opens a list of functions that can be performed on the image, and one of them is 'Negative'.
      - Pamar 9y ago
        I only spent like five minutes with it and then I tried donwloading xconvert. (I am part of the "read the docs only too late if ever" crew). Thanks a lot!
- neilh23 9y ago
  If all you need to do is create a negative version of pre-existing image, you can use ImageMagick on the command line: $ converge in.png -negate out.png
worble 9y ago
I've been using an old version of Macromedia Fireworks for years now, and while maybe not totally 'lightweight' (you gotta wait for it to boot up), I've always found it intuitive to use for quick edits, while also having lots of other features if I feel like doing something more elabourate.
sfwwolvw 9y ago
shutter comes to my mind, I'm using it to annotate images and screenshots, it comes with a paint like edit modus (http://shutter-project.org/wp-content/uploads/key_feature_062.png http://shutter-project.org/wp-content/uploads/key_feature_06...)
RogueIMP 9y ago
Pinta is a good alt for Linux.
- craftyguy 9y ago
  Too bad it is built on mono. I'd have to install ~200MB of dependencies for a 2.5MB application.
  - oblio 9y ago
    I don't get this complaint. Do you have a 400MB HDD or something? 220MB of HDD or SSD probably cost less than a roll of toilet paper.
    - craftyguy 9y ago
      You're assuming that I have an infinite amount of disk space to dedicate to arbitrarily large frameworks that are 'required' by simple applications. If every app you used required 200MB of baggage to run, you'd quickly run out of disk space. I'd rather use my disks to store more valuable things, and, on another note, most definitely do not want to encourage the proliferation of .NET/mono.
    - DanBC 9y ago
      Plenty of people have sub 200GB hard drives. Visit your favourite website and have a look. Here's a bunch of new products under 249 GB: https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100006740%20601296060%20601296065%204814 https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&I... note that some of these only have 64 GB. For these people every bit of storage is useful.
yots 9y ago
Were you (or anyone) able to change the brush size? (I'm pretty sure it used to be + on Windows, but it's been a while)
- 1j01 9y ago
  It's Ctrl+NumpadPlus/Minus on mspaint, or just NumpadPlus/Minus on jspaint; no way to do it beyond the preset sizes without a numpad, so far, I'm afraid
estima 9y ago
Best feature of this app I feel is live sharing like: http://jspaint.ml/#session:abc http://jspaint.ml/#session:abc sessions are shared in real time
- magic_beans 9y ago
  How do you do it?
- gkfasdfasdf 9y ago
  Careful: http://jspaint.ml/#session:abc http://jspaint.ml/#session:abc not really work safe when I clicked on it
- usernam 9y ago
  Interestingly, it seems to lose 1/3 of the inputs I'm trying to send...
  - 1j01 9y ago
    Yeah, it's super half baked. I can tell you that as the developer. I plan to focus on collaboration in the successor to this project, Mopaint: https://github.com/1j01/mopaint https://github.com/1j01/mopaint (Rather than adding it after the fact.)
- lanius 9y ago
  Spiritual successor to /r/place?
bedros 9y ago
after years of searching for a low cost editor I can use on either mac or Linux I found these two. Pixelmator has tons of tutorials pixelmator for OS X ($60) pixeluvo for Linux ($35 only) but worth 10X that. my first go to is pixeluvo since I use linux as my daily machine.
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Sammi 9y ago
Yeah try Lazpaint: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazpaint/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazpaint/

by barbs 9y ago

alanbernstein 9y ago

I'm in the same boat. I often use http://kolourpaint.org/ http://kolourpaint.org/ in linux, and https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/ https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/ in OSX.

ekianjo 9y ago

Have you tried mtpaint? http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/ http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/

chungy 9y ago
mtPaint has pretty poor usability compared to MS Paint. ReactOS has its own Paint, I wonder... it may be simple to compile it through winelib, or just run it directly via Wine. That'd be a pretty quick and legal way to get a functionally-identical clone.
- Klonoar 9y ago
  Mmmm this works fine in MacOS (I did it years ago with the MS Paint binary). Screenshot: https://rymc.io/mspaintosx.png https://rymc.io/mspaintosx.png
- hjek 9y ago
  I think the non-web app that comes closest to MS Paint in functionality is GrafX2. Only other paint program I've seen that has selection-as-a-brush. http://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2 http://pulkomandy.tk/projects/GrafX2 The interface is a bit different than MS Paint but it has these absolutely wild features, like colour cycling, where the colours can change while you're painting, which can be fairly psychedelic. GrafX2 is more of a clone of DeluxePaint for Amiga. I'm no fan of mtPaint either.
- duozerk 9y ago
  The MS version at least can be wined without issue. However, there are tons of lightweight image editors that run as fast as MS paint and offer more features; have you tried Pinta ? or gnome-paint ?
- edflsafoiewq 9y ago
  I disagree about usability. Probably most people just used MS Paint first. MS Paint has different tools and different brush-tip (widths) for pencil/brush/spray-can/eraser that all do essentially the same thing (okay, the eraser's right click mode is different, but hardly anyone knows about it), and then the line/curve/box tools all have _their_ own width. This is all unified into one global brush/pattern option in mtPaint that everything uses. The zoom levels are better too. I think the only thing that's not obvious in mtPaint is the eyedropper. The one thing I like in MS Paint is the controls to resize the canvas near its edges. Most other programs make you go through a dialog or select and then trim to selection.

mehrdadn 9y ago

> I see there's a Chrome app, but the link is broken (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dgfedgcofbjmeohonbpcoagiabgnddjh https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dgfedgcofbjmeohonb...) I think Chrome apps were deprecated a few weeks/months ago.

notatoad 9y ago
Chrome apps are still a thing, chrome packaged apps were deprecated (unless you're on Chrome OS), so the type of chrome app that remains is essentially just a bookmark distributed through an app store. You're not missing out on anything by that link being broken.

eropple 9y ago

I mostly use Pixelmator for that sort of thing on OS X. It's like $20, but I also bought it about five years ago, so it's a sunk cost!

Yaggo 9y ago
Pixelmator is crazy cheap for its features and polishness. Edit: seems to be $60 now for "Pro" version, whatever that means, but still cheap. My only wish is svg export¹. [1] http://www.pixelmator.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7663&sid=88081726825de95bb341dafe5d68e7af&start=100 http://www.pixelmator.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7663...
- Joeri 9y ago
  The regular pixelmator is also available for half the price.

iandanforth 9y ago

I regularly use http://www.pixlr.com/editor/ http://www.pixlr.com/editor/

madmax108 9y ago
I used pixlr a lot for a lot of minor editing, but with a new system on which I avoid flash like the plague, it turned out to be (arguably) the only webapp without a flash-free alternative. Now I simply use Adobe Photoshop even for minor edits (Yes, it's bloated, but can't bring myself to install Flash just for one webapp)

badsectoracula 9y ago

> and have yet to find a suitable replacement There are a few, Kolourpaint is pretty much an MSPaint clone for KDE [1] and Paintbrush is the macOS equivalent [2]. There is also Gnome Paint [3], but hasn't seen any update in years. I suppose the closest would be Pinta [4], although that is slightly above MS Paint on the complexity level (probably more comparable to Paint.NET than MS Paint). > I'm not sure how I feel about it being web-based Personally i find it amusing and impressive that this implements a Win95-like GUI (i love Win95's GUI :-P) but at the same time the actual editing feels very slow - painting something takes almost a second to update with the brush being very jumpy, reminding me using ZSoft's PhotoFinish on Windows 3.1 on my 4MB 386:-P. It is also nice that it has implemented the select+shift+drag brush feature that is ignored by almost every other clone i've seen over the years. [1] https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/kolourpaint/ https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/kolourpaint/ [2] https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/screenshots/ https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/screenshots/ [3] https://launchpad.net/gnome-paint https://launchpad.net/gnome-paint [4] https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/ https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/

dingo_bat 9y ago
> actual editing feels very slow - painting something takes almost a second to update with the brush being very jumpy, reminding me using ZSoft's PhotoFinish on Windows 3.1 on my 4MB 386:-P. Works as fast as native paint on my laptop. What browser are you using?
- pluma 9y ago
  Same here: no noticeable lag in Firefox on Ubuntu. I'm guessing Safari on macOS?
  - rangibaby 9y ago
    no problem with Safari+Macos here
- badsectoracula 9y ago
  Firefox on Linux

colordrops 9y ago

It doesn't take very long at all to get familiar with basic Gimp features. The investment in time is minimal and worth it. You could probably figure how to do everything you can do in MSPaint in Gimp in 20-30 minutes.

avhon1 9y ago
Yes, but it can take as much as a minute to open GIMP, which is a lot to ask when you can be working on the same task in MSPaint in a second or two.
- lucb1e 9y ago
  Protip: get an SSD. It improves your life in many ways. Three examples I notice between my girlfriend's HDD-based laptop and my SSD-based one: - A game, Factorio, takes literally 5 minutes for her to get to the main menu. For me it takes about 30 seconds. - Using `time gimp` and hitting alt+F4 immediately, I get about 2.14 seconds. For my girlfriend this indeed takes a little bit, though not a minute. - Booting up (from cold) is maybe 20 seconds for me. For her, this takes more than a minute on Ubuntu and more like 2-3 minutes on Windows (it boots in the same time as Ubuntu, but then programs need to load which make it slow for another 1-2 minutes). Not everything benefits from it, like web browsing or email is not I/O-bound, but lots of things go a lot faster for the investment. Especially for laptops, it's also quieter, supposedly uses a little less power, and won't die as fast from dropping it. I'd highly recommend it. I'm not putting off your computer as being the blame for GIMP being slow - indeed, it's kinda silly that it takes so long to start, especially the first time - but I just figured you had an HDD and think the vast majority of people will benefit from an SSD. Even my grandma got one a few weeks ago and is super happy with it.
  - jmiserez 9y ago
    I have SSDs, and GIMP for Windows starts up slower than Eclipse (!). In my experience the Linux version starts up faster than the Windows one.
    - 9y ago

qalmakka 9y ago

I've been an almost Linux/BSD user for more than a decade now, and I've always used 32-bit MSPaint from XP without any issue through Wine. Salvage the .exe from a Windows XP install and the necessary MFC .dll, and you're ready to roll.

zekrioca 9y ago
I think with Wine you can only save in BMP and PNG? Last time I used Wine to emulate MSPaint, these were the only two formats for saving the files.

itaysk 9y ago

IMO the best painting/lightweight editing tool is paint.net. Since I moved to mac I moved to Gimp and it’s ‘fine’.. but paint.net is really the only tool I’m missing fron windows

Joeri 9y ago
Spend a little bit of money on pixelmator, you’ll be glad you did. If you can afford a mac you’ll find that buying pixelmator to replace gimp is worth it.
adrianoconnor 9y ago
There are a few really good low-ish cost options on Mac. You should take a look at Pixelmator, Acorn and Affinity Photo. I think all have free trials. Out of those, Affinity is the one I use most, but that's because I also really like Affinity Designer (an Illustrator type application).

NicoJuicy 9y ago

Does paint dotnet work on Linux through Wine?

ygra 9y ago
I'd be surprised. Very old versions did work on Mono, but by now it has accumulated quite a bit of code that uses not only Windows Forms, but also WPF, Direct2D and possibly a number of other newer Windows frameworks which I'm not sure Wine provides.

trqx 9y ago

Although it's probably illegal, I've been waiting for a port for years. I'm sad the one that finally did it chose js.

lucb1e 9y ago
Shouldn't be hard to turn it into an "application" using Electron or something runs
scandox 9y ago
Maybe there's some sort of connection? Like maybe the port happened because there was some sort of universal platform where a dedicated developer would be sure to get a large readymade, appreciative audience as opposed to a small group of highly vocal micro-critics. And maybe that was more important to them than whether the language adhered to some paradigm that's really important if you look at things always from a single point of view? I dunno where these thoughts come from...
always_good 9y ago
> I'm sad the one that finally did it chose js. Look how easy it is to shed tears for free stuff you don't personally have the energy to do yourself: You didn't have to lift a finger but to write an internet comment. Just wondering what you think it adds to the discourse.

rplnt 9y ago

On Windows I've been using Paint.NET for years now. It's absolutely brilliant. Lightweight editing with quite a bit of extra features like properly working undo. Free, lots of updates, good UX. I use it at least few times a week. Recently I've been on OS X a lot, and I wasn't able to find a suitable replacement. Like, nothing even remotely close. Quite a shame. Same story for Linux.

hadrien01 9y ago
On OS X I really liked using Acorn a few years back.
Ruphin 9y ago
There is a Paint.NET remake on Linux called Pinta. Not quite as stable (it struggles with large images), but it has the exact same interface.
- rplnt 9y ago
  I've tried that, it was maybe 3~5 years ago, and it was quite bad in comparison. Not sure if there was a significant progress since.
- mwexler 9y ago
  Sadly, I find it struggles with small and medium images as well. But with some tlc, it could become the paint.net we are all hoping for...
wernsey 9y ago
I've also switched to Paint.NET. One thing that convinced me to switch was when MS Paint switched to the ribbon interface.
azeirah 9y ago
I used to use GIMP, but could never figure out how to use it. Downloaded Paint.NET, it worked _exactly_ as expected. I was able to get running and perform the edits I needed to perform in seconds. I've never had such a positive introduction to a piece of Software, it works _so well_!

lucb1e 9y ago

I was in the same spot. A while ago I took an evening to try and learn doing basic edits in Gimp, and since then I have no trouble with it anymore. Not as bad as Vim, but there's indeed a learning curve to it. Now that I've learned it, though, I would never want Paint again.

matude 9y ago

> (e.g. Preview View > Show Markup Toolbar

tomsmeding 9y ago
Then it still is _very_ limited in what it can do, in my opinion. It's nice for very simple things, but it hasn't become a Paint replacement all of a sudden.

Pamar 9y ago

Can anyone suggest a small, OSX graphical editor? I really just need one specific thing: "making a negative image". I have it on IrfanView, but I could not find a simple equivalent on MacOSX.

placebo 9y ago
I have IrfanView on Mac (via Wine project) and it works flawlessly. However, if you don't want to install Wine on your OSX, there are other alternatives, some mentioned here already. Personally, I like xnview - its free and probably includes everything you'd want (and supports making a negative image)
- Pamar 9y ago
  I solved my needs with https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/ https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/ and http://projects.apricus.be/en/xnconvert/ http://projects.apricus.be/en/xnconvert/ (looks like "negative" is not available in xnview, or I was unable to find it at least). Thanks!
  - placebo 9y ago
    When you double click one of the images displayed in xnviewmp the image opens in a window and then under the 'Image' menu item, there is a submenu named 'Map'. Selecting the Map submenu opens a list of functions that can be performed on the image, and one of them is 'Negative'.
    - Pamar 9y ago
      I only spent like five minutes with it and then I tried donwloading xconvert. (I am part of the "read the docs only too late if ever" crew). Thanks a lot!
neilh23 9y ago
If all you need to do is create a negative version of pre-existing image, you can use ImageMagick on the command line: $ converge in.png -negate out.png

worble 9y ago

I've been using an old version of Macromedia Fireworks for years now, and while maybe not totally 'lightweight' (you gotta wait for it to boot up), I've always found it intuitive to use for quick edits, while also having lots of other features if I feel like doing something more elabourate.

sfwwolvw 9y ago

shutter comes to my mind, I'm using it to annotate images and screenshots, it comes with a paint like edit modus (http://shutter-project.org/wp-content/uploads/key_feature_062.png http://shutter-project.org/wp-content/uploads/key_feature_06...)

RogueIMP 9y ago

Pinta is a good alt for Linux.

craftyguy 9y ago
Too bad it is built on mono. I'd have to install ~200MB of dependencies for a 2.5MB application.
- oblio 9y ago
  I don't get this complaint. Do you have a 400MB HDD or something? 220MB of HDD or SSD probably cost less than a roll of toilet paper.
  - craftyguy 9y ago
    You're assuming that I have an infinite amount of disk space to dedicate to arbitrarily large frameworks that are 'required' by simple applications. If every app you used required 200MB of baggage to run, you'd quickly run out of disk space. I'd rather use my disks to store more valuable things, and, on another note, most definitely do not want to encourage the proliferation of .NET/mono.
  - DanBC 9y ago
    Plenty of people have sub 200GB hard drives. Visit your favourite website and have a look. Here's a bunch of new products under 249 GB: https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&IsNodeId=1&N=100006740%20601296060%20601296065%204814 https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&I... note that some of these only have 64 GB. For these people every bit of storage is useful.

yots 9y ago

Were you (or anyone) able to change the brush size? (I'm pretty sure it used to be + on Windows, but it's been a while)

1j01 9y ago
It's Ctrl+NumpadPlus/Minus on mspaint, or just NumpadPlus/Minus on jspaint; no way to do it beyond the preset sizes without a numpad, so far, I'm afraid

estima 9y ago

Best feature of this app I feel is live sharing like: http://jspaint.ml/#session:abc http://jspaint.ml/#session:abc sessions are shared in real time

magic_beans 9y ago
How do you do it?
gkfasdfasdf 9y ago
Careful: http://jspaint.ml/#session:abc http://jspaint.ml/#session:abc not really work safe when I clicked on it
usernam 9y ago
Interestingly, it seems to lose 1/3 of the inputs I'm trying to send...
- 1j01 9y ago
  Yeah, it's super half baked. I can tell you that as the developer. I plan to focus on collaboration in the successor to this project, Mopaint: https://github.com/1j01/mopaint https://github.com/1j01/mopaint (Rather than adding it after the fact.)
lanius 9y ago
Spiritual successor to /r/place?

bedros 9y ago

after years of searching for a low cost editor I can use on either mac or Linux I found these two. Pixelmator has tons of tutorials pixelmator for OS X ($60) pixeluvo for Linux ($35 only) but worth 10X that. my first go to is pixeluvo since I use linux as my daily machine.

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Sammi 9y ago

Yeah try Lazpaint: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazpaint/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazpaint/