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.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Tuesday July 25 2017, @04:55AM (10 children)
GIMP
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @05:52AM
Right. That would work very well when giving people instructions, especially in corporate environments :)
A: "OK, first install GIMP..."
B: "I'm reporting you to HR for harassment!"
(I personally prefer Krita. I could never get used to the GIMP interface...)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @07:35AM (8 children)
Gimp sucks, not because of the features but b/c the UI is an abomination and the default save formats are pure shite.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Tuesday July 25 2017, @07:39AM (4 children)
The UI has improved a lot in newer versions, and any other quirks don't matter much after you've used it for years.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @08:08AM (3 children)
It's still GTK.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday July 25 2017, @08:18AM (2 children)
They call it GTK+ [wikipedia.org] and it's so good that non-GIMP applications use it.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Grishnakh on Tuesday July 25 2017, @05:00PM (1 child)
No, it's a pile of shit that's poorly documented and constantly changing according to the whims of the Gnome devs. Many projects have switched to Qt as a result, including LXDE (now LXQt).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @11:11PM
Finally someone that gets it.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday July 25 2017, @02:31PM
There's a difference between saving the project and exporting an image. Are you sure you're complaining about the project save format?
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(Score: 3, Informative) by mcgrew on Tuesday July 25 2017, @05:03PM (1 child)
Default formats?? That's not how GIMP works. "Save" saves the project in its native format, like Audacity and a lot of other programs. To save as a different format you use "export". It saves in every graphics format I've ever of except GIF, and you choose the format when naming it. Yes, the default is PNG, but just type the file name with the extension .jpg and it saves it as JPG. PDF saves it as PDF, etc. simple, logical, and elegant (unlike their menu structure which is confusing at first).
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(Score: 2) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Wednesday July 26 2017, @12:58AM
Fortunately, you don't need to jump through that hoop [github.com] unless you want to.
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