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I was just reflecting on why I fire up Paint more often than GIMP, and this is the reason. Especially when all I want to do is paste an image, add a small annot

by harles 3y ago

I was just reflecting on why I fire up Paint more often than GIMP, and this is the reason. Especially when all I want to do is paste an image, add a small annotation, and copy it back out, there’s no tool as fast.

dingnuts 3y ago
You can do all this in the snipping tool without opening a separate app, which is in fact a little faster
- cfiggers 3y ago
  Yes, except (unless I'm mistaken) the snipping tool can't add text and it can't draw boxes, which are two of the core use cases of screenshot annotation.
  - IG_Semmelweiss 3y ago
    i use monosnap for this reason (free version) The number of times it crashes vs snipping tool, its like night and day. yet i keep coming back for monosnap.... it made my snippets look somewhat professional (gone handwritten arrows lol)
  - jve 3y ago
    https://getgreenshot.org/ https://getgreenshot.org/ Fast, doesn't crash, does what you say and more.
badsectoracula 3y ago
It is basically why i have KolourPaint installed on Linux and ready on a launch button despite having a bunch of other 2D image editing apps: it starts (almost[0]) instantly and is perfectly fine for cropping images, adding annotations, etc and then pasting it to imgur, discord, or whatever. The only thing missing is having a tool to draw shapes like arrows (not something the Win9x era MS Paint, which is what KolourPaint replicates, had, but it would be a useful feature IMO). [0] it takes somewhere between half to a second, there is a visible delay between double click and the window appearing but i can live with that. I'm not using KDE as my DE, it is possible it'd start instantly if i already had the KDE libs in memory.
- IYasha 3y ago
  kudos for KolourPaint, it replaced mspaint for me perfectly too! Set it to Ctrl+Alt+P :)
sebmaynard 3y ago
Lightshot is a great app for exactly this. And lines, boxes etc
- Tempest1981 3y ago
  Indeed. Also, I just read that mouse-wheel lets you adjust the line/arrow size...

by harles 3y ago

dingnuts 3y ago

You can do all this in the snipping tool without opening a separate app, which is in fact a little faster

cfiggers 3y ago
Yes, except (unless I'm mistaken) the snipping tool can't add text and it can't draw boxes, which are two of the core use cases of screenshot annotation.
- IG_Semmelweiss 3y ago
  i use monosnap for this reason (free version) The number of times it crashes vs snipping tool, its like night and day. yet i keep coming back for monosnap.... it made my snippets look somewhat professional (gone handwritten arrows lol)
- jve 3y ago
  https://getgreenshot.org/ https://getgreenshot.org/ Fast, doesn't crash, does what you say and more.

badsectoracula 3y ago

It is basically why i have KolourPaint installed on Linux and ready on a launch button despite having a bunch of other 2D image editing apps: it starts (almost[0]) instantly and is perfectly fine for cropping images, adding annotations, etc and then pasting it to imgur, discord, or whatever. The only thing missing is having a tool to draw shapes like arrows (not something the Win9x era MS Paint, which is what KolourPaint replicates, had, but it would be a useful feature IMO). [0] it takes somewhere between half to a second, there is a visible delay between double click and the window appearing but i can live with that. I'm not using KDE as my DE, it is possible it'd start instantly if i already had the KDE libs in memory.

IYasha 3y ago
kudos for KolourPaint, it replaced mspaint for me perfectly too! Set it to Ctrl+Alt+P :)

sebmaynard 3y ago

Lightshot is a great app for exactly this. And lines, boxes etc

Tempest1981 3y ago
Indeed. Also, I just read that mouse-wheel lets you adjust the line/arrow size...