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I'm still missing MS Paint. MS Paint is unmatched on intuitiveness and simplicity. This App is nice but the moment I launched it, it started forcing me make de
by mrtksn 5y ago
I'm still missing MS Paint. MS Paint is unmatched on intuitiveness and simplicity.
This App is nice but the moment I launched it, it started forcing me make decisions: I had to decide how large the canvas should be. I don't know? Let me see the default so I can decide if I want it bigger or smaller.
When I move my cursor over the canvas, it indicates that I am doing something wrong("forbidden" icon next to the cursor). Why don't you first give me the tool that can do something on that canvas so that I can get my feet wet?
I'm sure when I learn the app a bit I will see how simple and powerful it is but with MS Paint everything makes sense immediately, it's just the pinnacle of intuitive image editing.
I think macOS needs an image editor that aims for the simplicity of MS Paint. The professional stuff is out there and it's really good but we still don't have an app for stitching a few random images together and put a text on top as easy as with MS Paint. Preview can do it, Preview is actually very powerful and can do amazing things with PDF and such but it's total pain in the ass to use it to edit something.
- ghaff 5y agoI have Photoshop because it comes along for the ride with Lightroom but there are a fair number of times when I want simple cropping or resizing and/or maybe one or two very basic operations. For things like that, pulling out Photoshop feels like pulling out a shotgun to swat a fly in that not only is it massive overkill but it's not even a good tool for the job.
- mrtksn 5y agoI know right? For cropping/rotating I would often airdrop the image to my iPhone, crop and rotate there and airdrop it back to my mac. Sure, there's the Photos app that can do that just like on iPhone but it complicates the library management with importing and exporting.
- Tagbert 5y agoAs saagarjha mentioned, you can use Preview for that. Just open the image in Preview and you can crop, rotate and adjust color of an image. You can also export to different file format. You can also rotate directly in the Finder. Right-click on an image, chose Quick Actions and then choose Rotate Left.
- reaperducer 5y agoJust open the image in Preview and you can crop, rotate and adjust color of an image If you only need to rotate, you can rotate any image or video file right from the Finder by pressing Command-R. No need to even open a program.
- mrtksn 5y agoI know I can use Preview but it's very annoying. Everything is behind a menu and it is counterintuitive and slow. The Finder rotate does only 90 degrees and doesn't do cropping.
- Tagbert 5y agoI wouldn’t use Preview as a primary editor but a lot of edits are simple rotate from portrait to landscape, crop out the boring parts, or adjust the exposure and Preview is a quick way to do that for a few photos. If you need to do more in depth changes or for more images, I would use one of the photo editing apps. My own favorite is Affinity Photo.
- torstenvl 5y agoCropping isn't behind a menu, isn't counterintuitive, and isn't slow. Select the part of the image you want to keep. Press Cmd K. Done.
- mrtksn 5y agoWhat's intuitive about Cmd K? Because cropping kind of resemble K because in Uzbek cropping is "kesish" therefore K is the first letter of cropping?
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- saagarjha 5y agoDoes Preview fit the bill? You can crop, resize, rotate, and add basic annotations to images with it.
- ajmurmann 5y agoWould you pay for an MS Paint equivalent on macOS? If so, how much? How much oi it was annually?
- einherjae 5y ago5-10 USD one time sounds fair, annual sounds like a big nope.
- mrtksn 5y ago4.99$ or 9.99$ one time fee or 1.99$ a year feels about right for me. I would prefer the one time fee because I don't expect it getting regular updates(I'm fine with paying again for large version updates. I'm already paying for iStat Menus, Affinity Designer, BetterTouchTools and they all work with this business model). It is a utility that I would use every now and then, so subscription feels wrong.
- 1123581321 5y agoThere are a bunch of these already. They’re either free or $5-20 one time. Discovery/marketing will be your challenge with this.
- mrtksn 5y agoThere are no alternatives that nailed it. I think if the OP successfully crates something on par with MS Paint it can spread by word of mouth because there's no good answer for the question of "how do you put these two images next to each other and add a text on top of it".
- lostgame 5y agoAnnually? Eww.
- happymellon 5y agoI feel the same with Gitkraken. There has literally been nothing added to it since the first release that I would pay for, but as a subscription they have to tweek it. $20 one time is all I need. I think Jetbrains has the best model for this.
- 1123581321 5y agoCheck out Paintbrush for Mac.
- mrtksn 5y agoI have it, unfortunately it's nowhere nearly as usable as MS Paint. For example, you can't drag and drop an image into the canvas.
- Veen 5y agoAcorn, maybe? That's what I use for quick edits when I can't be bothered with a more complicated image editor. https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/ https://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
- mrtksn 5y agoI didn't know about Acorn, it looks pretty good. So far I really like the UI. It's not like MS Paint but lightweight Photoshop, which is also good for quick editing. Thanks! Though, it's bit on the pricey side of the scale for an occasional usage.
- throwmeariver1 5y agoMS Paints was neither simple nor intuitive it was easy to use and with the ease of use came a lot of bad habits and with the habits bad jpgs, giant tifs with 256 colors and the list goes on and on. MS Paint is and was a menace.
- mrtksn 5y agoOkay, how do you put 3 images next to each other and add a text on top of it on a Mac? Let's say you are creating some variation of this meme: https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/American-Chopper-Argument https://imgflip.com/memegenerator/American-Chopper-Argument
- beamatronic 5y agoI do this very frequently on Mac. Here’s how I do it. I paste all the images into Microsoft Word. You can paste anything into Microsoft Word. Then I take a screenshot and then I annotate it with Skitch.
- mrtksn 5y agoWell, I don't have MS Word, I don't use it enough to pay for it. I also would like to do some small changes to the images(maybe laser eyes? maybe draw some lines to emphasise an emotion?). I also recall Word being not very easy with alignments.
- reaperducer 5y agoWell, I don't have MS Word, I don't use it enough to pay for it. So use Pages. It came with your Mac. I also would like to do some small changes to the images(maybe laser eyes? maybe draw some lines to emphasise an emotion?). Preview. It also came with your Mac.
- mrtksn 5y agoI can do it on Preview if I try hard enough, the idea is that it shouldn't be a hassle. If you look at my original post, I say that Preview is very powerful but hard to use.
- beamatronic 5y agoWhen I used Windows, The two indispensable apps that I used every day were Notepad and Paint. Notepad was great if you wanted to copy and paste some text and strip out all of the formatting quickly. And MS paint was great for quickly annotating a screenshot. Today I use Skitch and Sublime Text on Mac to accomplish the same goals.
- gardaani 5y agoHave a look at https://jspaint.app/ https://jspaint.app/ They have a GitHub page, which says that an Electron app is on its way.
- mrtksn 5y agoAh the very old MS Paint :)