Alternative To Ms Paint lol a really good Alternative To Ms Paint

[grimmy 0]

This can be for those who don't have photoshop, works for me since ps takes forever to load on my pc.
Main Functionalities :
- Management of layers (as Photoshop or TheGimp)
- Chronological account of executed acts with the ability of come back
- Draw tools (Polygon, lines, curve, text...)
- Filters and effects (radial blur, sepia, red eyes deleting...)
- Management of the layer's opacity

In spite of its layers' management, there isn't PSD or XCF formats in view ! Of course Paint.NET uses basic formats (PNG, BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, TGA) but to save your layers, you must use the .PND format, the format peculiar to this software.
Take care, Paint.NET need this installation of Microsoft .NET Framework which you can download in this page.

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[Cerebral Stasis 0]

It's not the only option. There is also GIMP, although I don't know which of them is best, since I am personally biased towards Photoshop (I don't foresee myself switching in the near future, either).

[masterleous 0]

Nice sharing grimmy,Now i am downloading this software, i am a regular and intermediate user of ADOBE photoshop 7.0, and using almost all features of Photoshop. In the websote it is showing a lot of features.............hope i will switch to this software for small graphics with respect to ADOBE Photoshop 7.0 which is a very heavy software.

[rapidget 0]

Alternative to Paint? uAHUAHAU... That's funny.. I didn't know people would still use this crap... uHAhAUUAH... Adobe Photoshop and Corel Draw Photopaint is far away from MS Paint... I wouldn't get an alternative for it... Please, if you want to do some favor for yourself, download photoshop at least, it's easy to use...

[Mjay06 0]

Do people use Paint as a design tool? I always thought it was something for 5 year olds or old age pensionsers to play with.

[truefusion 3]

Photofiltre is another good alternative to MS Paint. It may not be capable of layers, but it has some features that are similar to PhotoShop. And it loads fast, too. You can also get plug-ins for it. Edited July 14, 2006 by truefusion (see edit history)

[electriic ink 1]

Do people use Paint as a design tool? I always thought it was something for 5 year olds or old age pensionsers to play with.

I've seen it used more as a tool teenagers use to deface images of people they hate It sounds quite good for a free program. Might be quite useful for "lesser" graphics.

I still prefer Paint Shop Pro, far more features and it's only 85 quid.

[muskrat 0]

Paint.Net is good if you are also willing to download a hefty .NET FrameWork application from Microsoft. It is after all 25MB and on a 56k modem, it takes quite a lot of from one's time. Besides Paint.Net may have a lot of cool effects for ready-made photos. But for creating graphics, I still find it easier to manipulate the mouse with the GIMP.

[Mjay06 0]

For work I have photshop & illustrator on my G5 mac, I was considering getting photoshop on here to (i use my pc for the net) but after playing with paint.net for half an hour I think ill keep that instead. For a free program it looks pretty good.

[delivi 0]

I've Used this Software Paint.Net. It has lots of feature than MS Paint but it cannot stand in par with Photoshop or the GiMP for Graphics Designing. Free alternative for those with slow systems.

[Alexius 0]

GiMP is most likely the best graphic-editing program for its price ($0.00). I haven't had the chance to try it, since my interests required me to go out and purchase Adobe Photoshop for my Mac, but all in all, for attempting to get as close as possible to the power of Photoshop, I suggest GiMP from what I have read on the internet.

[Jimmy 0]

I personally use Microsoft Picture it! Photo Standard 9...I think its the best piece of software around thats free and fairly simple to get your head round, whilst still be able to do some good stuff with it. Its pretty fast and very simple to use which is why I use it to edit almost all of my photos... (including selectively colouring / de-colouring etc. on some objects.) Look it up if you want. I've tried Photoshop CS2 and can say that it burns my brain its so difficult to get to grips with. I suppose if I had the time and money to understand it it may be worth it, but I'd go with this software. It doesn't have the "layer" ability as such, but you can have objects separately, so kinda the same thing... ish... It doesn't completely have the opportunity to go back for everything, but you can easily save layers / objects separately as usual. and ctrl-z is always an option for as far back as you like. If you are slightly careful it doesn't pose any problem at all.I don't know of any free or cheap software that would have all the features you are talking about, like "smart objects" or layers / a huge array of filters that come unmatched with photoshop. So if you're gonna be needing a new program it may be worth using photoshop and getting a bit more RAM in your computer? :ph34r:I sound like a microsoft employee (I could well be up to their standard after having wasted about ?30 on useless support help for one of their games. They could not do anything, except guess everything and get me to try it out.)Anyway Picture it rocks. and its years ahead of ms paint.

[spitfire7001 0]

Nice a stripped down photoshop. Faster load

[Voidless_Shadows 0]

Mmm, I still prefer my Photoshop CS2 much more

[iwuvcookies 0]

I still use paint occasionally. Its only for like when my image editor act up and it has doen that one time. The GIMP I would think would bea better candidate alternative for paint and some of the high end products such as paintshop pro and Photoshop.