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The most valuable thing to me about MS Paint is the ability to print screen, CROP the largely extraneous material, and post, embed, or transmit the result. Whe

by aj7 9y ago

The most valuable thing to me about MS Paint is the ability to print screen, CROP the largely extraneous material, and post, embed, or transmit the result. Where is crop? I am not interested in the drawing with a bar of soap aspect. At all.

LocutusOfBorges 9y ago
For what it's worth, Irfanview's generally a better solution for quick cropping: http://www.irfanview.com http://www.irfanview.com
yzmtf2008 9y ago
Try monosnap: http://monosnap.com http://monosnap.com
taspeotis 9y ago
This does a lot: https://getsharex.com/ https://getsharex.com/ The workflow is based around print screen, crop, and then add any optional processing you want.
maccard 9y ago
Something like lightscreen or snipping tool might be what you’re looking for.
chrismorgan 9y ago
Paint didn’t have the ability to crop to a selection until the Windows 7 redesign of the app with its ribbon UI (not sure about the Vista version of Paint, which is halfway between the XP and the 7 versions); JS Paint has copied the XP and earlier design, not the newer. You can still crop, but only from the bottom or right, because you’re using the canvas resize handles instead. Concerning your specific task: I’d say the Snipping Tool (built-in from at least Windows 7 onwards) is generally superior for that sort of thing anyway. Its biggest problem is slow start-up.
- TeMPOraL 9y ago
  You could do cropping in Paint since at least the Win95 version. The method was the same I use with Paint to this very day: a combination of canvas resize handles and moving the image contents. Basically, after pasting the picture, I would use the selection that is automatically activated (if you lose it, CTRL+A to select all) to crop out top and left parts of the image, by positioning the top-left corner of what I care about at the top-left corner of the canvas. I would then use the bottom-right "resize canvas" handle to crop out the rest. "That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it, and it's worked out pretty well so far."
  - gvx 9y ago
    I'd select the section I'd want to crop, copy it, create a new image, resize it to 1x1 or something else small, then paste. The canvas would automatically resize to fit the pasted selection. It sounds a bit more involved than your version, but for me it worked.
    - TeMPOraL 9y ago
      Yeah, I noticed this mechanism (probably even used it a few times), but I eventually gravitated towards something with less clicking. I do that in Paint.NET a lot, though. I select the part of the image I'm interested in, and then in two keyboard presses (CTRL+C, ALT+CTRL+V, AFAIR) I copy it and "paste into new image".
- hirsin 9y ago
  Agreed on Snipping Tool - win + shift + s is a daily driver for me. I really want to find the person who made it a shortcut and thank them.
TeMPOraL 9y ago
It's where it has always been - use the resize handlers at the edges of the canvas.
1j01 9y ago
I made it crop the image if you make a selection while holding Ctrl. It's not how it's done in any version of mspaint, but I considered it useful enough.

by aj7 9y ago

LocutusOfBorges 9y ago

For what it's worth, Irfanview's generally a better solution for quick cropping: http://www.irfanview.com http://www.irfanview.com

yzmtf2008 9y ago

Try monosnap: http://monosnap.com http://monosnap.com

taspeotis 9y ago

This does a lot: https://getsharex.com/ https://getsharex.com/ The workflow is based around print screen, crop, and then add any optional processing you want.

maccard 9y ago

Something like lightscreen or snipping tool might be what you’re looking for.

chrismorgan 9y ago

Paint didn’t have the ability to crop to a selection until the Windows 7 redesign of the app with its ribbon UI (not sure about the Vista version of Paint, which is halfway between the XP and the 7 versions); JS Paint has copied the XP and earlier design, not the newer. You can still crop, but only from the bottom or right, because you’re using the canvas resize handles instead. Concerning your specific task: I’d say the Snipping Tool (built-in from at least Windows 7 onwards) is generally superior for that sort of thing anyway. Its biggest problem is slow start-up.

TeMPOraL 9y ago
You could do cropping in Paint since at least the Win95 version. The method was the same I use with Paint to this very day: a combination of canvas resize handles and moving the image contents. Basically, after pasting the picture, I would use the selection that is automatically activated (if you lose it, CTRL+A to select all) to crop out top and left parts of the image, by positioning the top-left corner of what I care about at the top-left corner of the canvas. I would then use the bottom-right "resize canvas" handle to crop out the rest. "That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it, and it's worked out pretty well so far."
- gvx 9y ago
  I'd select the section I'd want to crop, copy it, create a new image, resize it to 1x1 or something else small, then paste. The canvas would automatically resize to fit the pasted selection. It sounds a bit more involved than your version, but for me it worked.
  - TeMPOraL 9y ago
    Yeah, I noticed this mechanism (probably even used it a few times), but I eventually gravitated towards something with less clicking. I do that in Paint.NET a lot, though. I select the part of the image I'm interested in, and then in two keyboard presses (CTRL+C, ALT+CTRL+V, AFAIR) I copy it and "paste into new image".
hirsin 9y ago
Agreed on Snipping Tool - win + shift + s is a daily driver for me. I really want to find the person who made it a shortcut and thank them.

TeMPOraL 9y ago

It's where it has always been - use the resize handlers at the edges of the canvas.

1j01 9y ago

I made it crop the image if you make a selection while holding Ctrl. It's not how it's done in any version of mspaint, but I considered it useful enough.