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White Beard

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MS paint
#21321553 - 02/24/15 07:57 AM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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Does anyone know how to get the original MS paint onto windows 8 or know of a decent replacement? the 'Fresh Paint' program that comes per-installed sucks balls (looks like it was designed for babies) and every 3rd party paint program I've tried such as open office's 'draw' are terrible. I just want to be able to quickly draw shapes with the pencil or line tool and be able to use spill paint to fill them in. Simple stuff I could do in seconds the fucking '90s but takes forever in draw because the lines have to be 'connected', and the program consistently guesses wrong how you want the shape to be connected. MS paint was so intuitive, why would they ever get rid of it???
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psyWolf
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You could use Paint.Net
It's sort of a Photoshop Lite and MSPaint in one.
http://www.getpaint.net/download.html
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infected_2

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Re: MS paint [Re: psyWolf]
#21322434 - 02/24/15 11:57 AM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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I actually find PowerPoint surprising handy for this. You can draw a shape, fill the colour, set the border if needed. Add text and very easily align it (unlike paint sometimes). Right click - Save as Picture and select format.
It does the basic image creation pretty well. I do some websites for work which i've created buttons using PP. Like one time I needed 8 buttons with diff text for each whilst having the same dimensions. Then i needed them in 10 languages. PP made it easy as hell cos you can select a group of images and adjust values uniformly. Not a professional method but the major financial services client couldn't distinguish.
Give PowerPoint a go if you've got it installed. It might surprise you.
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koraks
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Good advice. PP is remarkably handy for simple vector drawings.I think you can export to jpeg with it as well. It's certainly possible with the free variant of OpenOffice.
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Byrain

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koraks
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Re: MS paint [Re: Byrain]
#21331332 - 02/26/15 02:05 AM (9 years, 2 months ago) |
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Gimp has never jived with me....but it is very functional!
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ShroomBound
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Re: MS paint [Re: koraks]
#21444990 - 03/22/15 09:52 PM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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I believe so
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ShootinD5nukes
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Quote:
White Beard said: Does anyone know how to get the original MS paint onto windows 8 or know of a decent replacement? the 'Fresh Paint' program that comes per-installed sucks balls (looks like it was designed for babies) and every 3rd party paint program I've tried such as open office's 'draw' are terrible. I just want to be able to quickly draw shapes with the pencil or line tool and be able to use spill paint to fill them in. Simple stuff I could do in seconds the fucking '90s but takes forever in draw because the lines have to be 'connected', and the program consistently guesses wrong how you want the shape to be connected. MS paint was so intuitive, why would they ever get rid of it???
I'm with you dude the original paint for old Windows is the best. I got it. The program I think comes with two paints, like vista paint and windows 98 paint.
http://www.mspaintxp.com/
works like a charm. gimp is too complicated.
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Why would anyone want Mac or Windows? Windows never quits shoving updates down your throat and Mac is just so expensive for the same exact hardware that's in a PC. Go Linux.
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Byrain

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Gimp is pretty simple, it just has a lot of features. If you want something more stripped down, you could do something like mypaint. http://mypaint.intilinux.com/?page_id=6
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kushroom



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Re: MS paint [Re: Byrain]
#21539479 - 04/12/15 09:23 PM (9 years, 1 month ago) |
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Op here is your solution: Go to windows 95 whatever you want, go to system32 folder, grab mspaint.exe drag to a usb of some sort, than drop it on your windows 8, and run in compatibility mode for it. -kushroom
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ShootinD5nukes
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i tried that but it has alot of other files that need to be with it. There is many tutorials online that describe how to get mspaint.exe and the other helper files like .dll files. your best bet is to use the link I provided in my previous post. It's identical to windows xp paint.
-------------------- Nothing I write on Shroomery's message boards or in private messages are true. I am fucking crazy and I make all this shit up because I can.
Why would anyone want Mac or Windows? Windows never quits shoving updates down your throat and Mac is just so expensive for the same exact hardware that's in a PC. Go Linux.
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