Automated background removal was also added recently.
Better hold on to your pants, Photoshop. Here’s the new contender!
As GIMP cries in the corner.
GIMP 3.0 stomps door with sexy moustache
As it should, I’ve tried twice to use GIMP, always gone back to Photoshop.
For how relatively well known it is (it’s probably like the next most well known piece of FOSS after Linux and Blender) I can’t believe how bad a piece of software GIMP is.
I used GIMP before Photoshop and I still massively prefer GIMP.
I really think its a case of what you got used to first.
Then all the defenders go “But it’s free and open-source!” and you can tell they are just paying lipservice.
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Paint is not designed to be GIMP/Photoshop alternative. It is just a simple drawing program. Although it is great that they have finally added these long-awaited features, as I may finally move from paint.net, which is also great but it has one huge drawback - it is not a single window, which is a hassle.
been using photopea for years, highly recommended for quick projects!
Screw you Microsoft, I switched to Paint.net forever ago and I’ll be long dead in the cold, cold grave before I recognize Missourah, I mean switch back to Paint.
Some other random company got the url “paint.net”, so confusingly you need https://getpaint.net/ to download the product paint.net
For those unfamiliar, it’s a free art program that’s… idk 80% of what photoshop is? But you can install community-made plugins to add features (shoutout to Grim Color Reaper).
Also on their download page, you want this one:
If you do the microsoft link, you’ll have to pay microsoft. For a free product. That microsoft doesn’t own. Dafuq.The paid version from the microsoft store helps to support the product; however I suspect the devs will get more bang-per-buck if you DL the free version and make a direct donation at https://getpaint.net/donate.html
The developer of paint.net sells it on the Microsoft store to support the product. Not any different than buying an app through the App Store or Google play store.
It’s created by a Microsoft Engineer, not super surprising they leverage Microsoft tools to get paid.
TIL. Thanks for the info - I’ll update my post.
You can also use winget to install it, if you’re into package managers
winget install --id=dotPDNLLC.paintdotnet -e
That way you can still get semi-automatic updates
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The single most historically aware yet still funny to the unaware joke that the Simpsons ever put out.
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True, I was just saying the name.
I think is a bot it keeps saying that everytime somebody says “paint.net”. If not a bot is a weird guy for sure because in context of some of the other messages it doesn’t make sense to say that.
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Win11 exclusive? Welp, guess I’ll never use it, then.
Actually a truly useful update in a sea of bloatware crap.
Those are great features and two of the biggest reasons I never bother with Paint. But locking them to Windows 11 and not putting them out on Windows 10 is some Grade A bullshit.
It sure isn’t enough to get me to bother installing 11.
Excellent! Now I can draw things on the wrong layer in yet another program
Have you tried using descriptive layer names like layer 1, later 2, later 3?
Layer 1, Later 2, Lazer 3.
FTFY
Or just use only one layer.
Great. Now my customers are going to send me even worse art.
At least with layers support you can now extract the individual parts of the image.
What used to drive me nuts is when they send me over everything in one image and I couldn’t separate the various components out.
Their clients will still manage to send them a 6MB bitmap somehow
My clients send me fuggin docx files with screenshots pasted in it…
Screenshot.doc /me cries
I don’t think your average paint user knows what a layer is.
meanwhile, wordpad… probably used by more people over the age of seven than paint is, getting axed.
microsoft has office subs to sell, but they do not have a photoshop or gimp or even a paint.net alternative to sell.
I’ve literally never met anybody that used Wordpad, whereas I know a lot of tech normies that’ll use MS Paint for quick memes and things
I used it back in my Windows days. Out of the box, I think it’s the only way to do rich text on Windows. Also (used to be anyway) one of the less resource intensive options.
You know, for when you’ve got Napster, Winamp (with visualisation), ICQ, and MSN all up and barely running. You don’t want to have to run, like, WordPerfect at the same time! Your MP3s will start skipping :p
They can cut WordPad, if they kill Notepad then IDK what to say…
Notepad++ FTW!
Fellow notepad.exe aficionado here as well
I’ve been using Notepad++ for a good while now and it’s proven to be a great alternative to MS WordPad.
I think they’re just pushing people to use OneNote (which is free).
Free with lots of features stripped out
Honestly not that bad if I want to use it for notetaking. But not as full-featured.
Yea that’s totally fair. I’m just bitter cuz it makes running my D&D sessions harder lol
Huh… I thought they discontinued this program.
Who told you that? MS Paint is basically a critical windows utility.
If you remove mspaint.exe then Windows will refuse to boot. It’s true, I knew a guy!
Jokes aside you can boot Windows without Windows at all. By that I mean you can boot Windows NT without Win32.
They did. I guess the community outcry was so loud even Microsoft had to heed it and reverse course.
They discontinued Paint 3D
I thought so too. I remember looking for alternatives for when it would be removed completely.
I honestly didn’t realize I had been installing it… I went to boot paint.net and was surprised I couldn’t find it on my work computer… that’s how critical it is… or how often I don’t change personal hardware
I read that WordPad also was being discontinued, in the same article stating the same about MS Paint iirc
No. Wordpad is the one being discontinued. Paint is one of several programs that can now be uninstalled from Windows by end users without any special tricks.
As someone who enjoys doodling in Paint, this is great
What did you think of the changes between Paint XP and modern versions? I used to adore Paint XP, but brush smoothing (though toggleable) and a clunky interface really spoiled the newer versions for me, and I don’t enjoy using them as much. I think I just became so used to the primitive way of drawing well in the old versions that it sort of became it’s own art form. Now they there are more advanced tools and so many required extra clicks, it feels like baggage. In the words of Karl Havoc, “THERE’S TOO MUCH FUCKIN’ SHIT ON ME!”
Honestly, I never used Paint XP. I’ve only used the modern version.
I really do like it for something that I want to just add quick/small edits to, or something that can be slapped together quickly. But I do hope this isn’t the start of a trend to bloat mspaint and aim to compete against more robust image editors.
The pessimist in me fears they’re going to, and start slapping on AI data harvesting measures that they’re integrating into Windows, like for training their own AI art generators. But this addition, in a bubble, is a welcome change.
I’ll stick to good ol’ https://jspaint.app/
Works on Linux too.
Actual Photoshop in your browser
Also works great on Linux :) And free.
Yes jspaint.app is perfect! Highly recommended
I make all my memes with Paint(.)NET
Very cool.
I like Paint for its simplicity, and since I don’t need all the extra bells and whistles most of the time, I’ve never bothered with learning how to use Photoshop or GIMP.
I’ve been using Paint.net for the last few years, but I’ll try the new Paint features as well and compare them to see which one I find better.
Yeah, I’m using paint.net for most of my editing (photopea for rest) but I would never have made the switch from just paint if it wasn’t for layers and transparency. Those are a big deal.
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They’re probably using an instance/app where any two words with a dot in between them automatically gets turned into a URL.
