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: 3, Informative) by isostatic on Tuesday July 25 2017, @10:40AM (2 children)
To capture an active window, use the print screen combo button. No need for a piece of software to bloat itself with features the OS already provides.
It's been well over a decade since I used windows on a regular or frequent basis, however paint's sole purpose was
On linux I use shift-printscreen, this selects a region and allows save, copy, or host on imgur, very easy
On mac it's apple-shift-4 and dumps into a 'screenshots' directory, not quite as handy
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 25 2017, @01:20PM (1 child)
This.
I don't think I've used paint for anything else for the past 15-20 years. It's also mind boggling how impressed Windows users, who often don't know how to screen-shot, are when they see me do this without touching a mouse.
(Score: 2, Informative) by toddestan on Thursday July 27 2017, @01:26AM
A few more tricks:
Alt-Printscreen will just capture the active window, which is typically what I'm actually interested in.
In MS Paint, right after launching it, go into resize and set the image size to be 1x1 pixel. It will remember this setting. Then whenever you paste something into MS Paint, it will always and very conveniently set the image size to be the size of whatever you just pasted.