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
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
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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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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.
Huh… I thought they discontinued this program.
They did. I guess the community outcry was so loud even Microsoft had to heed it and reverse course.
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!
Win11 exclusive? Welp, guess I’ll never use it, then.
I’ve used Vista “exclusive” programs on XP back in those days so I’m kinda curious how exclusive it really is if I could get the installer/files for it.
Shouldn’t be too hard, I expect it to be a single executable stored in
C:\Windows\System32
, much like the current mspaint.exe. Copy it over, run, have funWouldn’t surprise me if they lock it to the windows store. I hope I’m wrong!
Windows 11 is pretty awesome though
- Once you remove all the tracking and ads, which were already fucking intolerable in 10
10
That’s where you lost credibility.
Windows 7 was their last non-tracking OS.1 minute during setup is not exactly a sacrifice
It doesn’t stop all tracking, a lot of it still happens in the background, only “without identification”. If you thought otherwise, I have this pristine Eiffel Tower for sale.
I’m not at all concerned about them collecting random useless data that will happen their own effectiveness
Imagine thinking in 2023 that there’s still such a thing as ‘useless data’
What’s the useful part
It’s not 1 minute, you have to be technically savvy and run scripts from GitHub
No it’s just a title list that’s presented to you on the first time startup wizard
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Oh Jesus her we go
It shows where Microsoft’s mind is at. And it won’t stop here.
God forbid they make money on a product they have given away
Given away? Windows is a paid product. And there are other (free!) operating systems that are not driven by profit.
I’ve never paid for it. Most Windows 11 users have not paid for it. You can buy a license but they also gave it away to effectively everyone and anyone who wants to can run it without buying it so long as you don’t mind the “activate more” watermark and less appearance options
They make their real money on Azure iirc. And they’ve recently had a security leak of about 38 TB of data. Nice.
It’s still missing a handful of features from Windows10, which might keep some people from upgrading
Yeah that and on my custom built pc that runs awesomely windows 11 poo poos some of my hardware and refuses to take up residence all together.
I’m running Windows 11 on Chromebooks without issue.
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If I can rerun Windows 11 on a machine without actual Windows support I’m sure your issue is not going to be on the fault of Microsoft
Any operating system can run on anything with an x86 CPU. That’s not what’s insane, it’s the fact that it’s gonna be unbearably slow
I’ll bite, what features are missing
Ungrouped task bar buttons, I like seeing what’s running on my task bar at a glance. And I don’t like having it shrunk down to just an icon either.
You can ungroup them. it’s under personalization > taskbar
Ah, last I heard, it was in the Insider Channel previews. Guess it’s live now.
i just did an install of 11 here on a test machine. specifically went looking for that option. didn’t see it.
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.
They created WordPad because of antitrust issues and never changed it. Try opening a Word document created by a recent version, it’s pretty useless today.
Notepad rules though, it even got UTF8 support recently-ish! /s
I think they’re just pushing people to use OneNote (which is free).
I’ve been using Notepad++ for a good while now and it’s proven to be a great alternative to MS WordPad.
Can you format at all in Notepad++? I tend to use it for notes jot down in a rush or editing tiny scripts. For stuff that needs to look prettier, I tend to use Google Docs.
Yes and then some. It has built in support for a lot of programming languages plus allows you to add more. It also support extended and regex find/replace.
What stops them from bundling paintdotnet instead?
The license allows for redistribution
What’s the low-down on if extracting the EXE and putting it on Windows 10 works?
I found this guide: https://beebom.com/how-get-windows-11-paint-app-windows-10/ haven’t verified it or anything though. It’s a bit old but it should still be possible in any case.
I’m a hobbyist digital artist and have had to do a handful of graphic design projects for my mundane, non-art-in-anyway job.
As our computers are locked down Windows PCs, I’ve had to manage with MSPaint. It’s always taken me double the time as on any other program or app, and I have been wishing it had layers for years.
Since this update is Windows 11 only, I’ll have to for my company to upgrade, so I can look forward to layers in maybe 5 years.
Take a look at PhotoPea then. Needs nothing more than a browser. Runs fine in Edge and can be installed as PWA. That should work fine even on a locked down machine.
Try Paint.net. Layers, transparency, filters and even plugins. It’s free to download from their website. Install from Windows Store does have cost as a way to donate.
Idk why you got downvote but paint.net is where its at.
Because OP said his PC is locked down.
There’s a portable version I’m pretty sure.
I recommend Krita, it’s free and open source, and very good at making digital art of any kind.
The commenter you replied to literally wrote the computers are locked down, ie no way to install any new software.
Krita
https://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/krita-portable
There’s a portable version that might work.
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I’ve never experienced this, I’ve only experienced that you cannot do anything you need an admin for, maybe the control panel and settings app were removed from sight.
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