SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Microsoft Paint has been marked for death:
The era of Microsoft Paint appears to be coming to an end with the upcoming release of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. The image-editing application is officially being classified by Microsoft as a "deprecated feature," as noted by The Guardian. That means that, come this fall, Paint will "not be in active development and might be removed in future releases."
I go hard in the paint.
Also at PCWorld and Smithsonian.
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
After 32 Years, the Death of Microsoft Paint
|
Log In/Create an Account
| Top
| 111 comments
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
Ten years of rejection slips is nature's way of telling you to stop writing.
-- R. Geis
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @04:15AM (4 children)
I'm not using the abomination that is win10 but I've been using paintshop pro 7 for around 17 years now, works like a charm in win7 and doesn't depend on any bloated frameworks and whatnot.
(Score: 2) by drussell on Tuesday July 25 2017, @04:17AM (1 child)
Indeed... The Corel stuff has always been my favorite, for sure....
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday July 26 2017, @02:48AM
Corel PhotoPaint here, v8 (1998!) by preference but whatever version comes to hand will do... its ease of use has ruined me for anything else. IIRC this version dates from back before Corel acquired PSP (and fixed its increasingly-sluggish filter browser).
I used PCPaintbrush back in the day (I think it's the oldest graphical app I have, dated 1985) and old reliable MSPaint still finds the odd use or two as well -- dumb as rocks but even so, sometimes it's just handy.
But as to current topic -- Paint doesn't eat much and requires no maintenance (at least if they'd leave well enough alone!) -- why kill it off unless it's meant to force everyone into something we don't want, or buying an app from the Windows Store? what exactly are locked-down environments supposed to do??
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 1) by BenFenner on Tuesday July 25 2017, @02:46PM (1 child)
Same here. I've been using PaintShop Pro 6 since the late 1990s with wild success. I does all my light lifting, and most of my heavy lifting. The only limitation I've ever run into is that is doesn't handle modern transparent PNGs very well. And now that other apps have content-aware-fill, I've found that I sometimes wish I had that. For transparent PNGs, I use GIMP. For photography exposure/lighting/contrast/color changes I will use Raw Therapy. For panoramas (including content-aware-fill) I use Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Reziac on Wednesday July 26 2017, @02:53AM
I hadn't heard of ICE, it looks really useful. Thanks!
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/product/computational-photography-applications/image-composite-editor/# [microsoft.com]
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.