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Paint is one of the best art programs available. I don't care if other people don't understand how to use it.
What happened to them adding layers to Paint? Did it turn into this AI version?
No no no. It does basic things and people can be good at using it, but it's objectively bad since it lack features available in nearly all image editing softwares. Look at Paint dot net for example
I like Paint because it lacks all of that. 95% of the time, I just need cut, rotate and resize.
I use MS Paint for similar purposes all the time.
It can be launched from the run prompt (Win + R and just slam in "mspaint" and hit enter), loads instantly, and is perfect for cropping a selection out of a screenshot and then using the chunky unprofessional doodle tools to draw a bunch of circles and arrows to illustrate with maximum snideness the position of whatever paragraph or interface element is clearly right there in the user's screen, but rather than use their eyeballs and comprehend with their brain they decided the best course of action was to bleat at me about it in a passive-aggressive email instead.
Two can play at that game. If I'm feeling particularly vindictive, I will intentionally not use the text tool but rather draw out my various "Look, dumbass, it's right here" labels with my mouse. The more they've irritated me the more eye-searing colors I'll use.
Why are you hitting Win+R and using it to crop screenshots when you could just use Win+Shift+S and take the screenshot properly to begin with? Snipping Tool also allows you to do basic doodles, and it even has the ability to move straight to Paint if you want to do anything slightly more advanced.
Because I've been doing it that way since Windows 95. Don't mess with my workflow, man.
Something like this is why every single Microsoft program or OS still has all the old options, shortcuts, control panel page, and MMC snap-in buried in it somewhere.
Nah, the reason MS products are such a mess is that they gave up on desinging software for the user and instead focused on what they could get out of it (stealing user data).
And people complain Windows is overbloated...
...well, if we cut out all the backwards compatability, it might be pretty lightweight.
But! You see, the accounting department of this Fortune 500 company is run by Gladys. Gladys wears 1000 denier stockings, a turtleneck sweater, and keeps her pointed glasses on a chain around her neck. Gladys never smiles. Gladys has been doing this job since 1992 so she knows it better than you, buster.
And Gladys has a spreadsheet she uses to calculate the entire company's payroll of several million dollars per month, and she originally made it in Excel 4.0 using XLM macros, and it relies on undocumented bugs from that version which now must be faithfully reproduced going forward forevermore. Otherwise Gladys will have a thermonuclear tantrum, the payroll will be late, and Microsoft will get sued.
FYI Win+D sucks ass, because when you open something on your desktop it resets. Instead, if you use Win+M you will minimise all windows, then Win+Shift+M will restore them, regardless of any other windows you've opened.
Just as a sidenote for others, I have been using MyPaint for years now. It's open-source, cross-platform, supports graphic tablets, no AI bs. It's super stable, opens fast, and you can use it for maximum snideness by drawing circles and arrows
https://mypaint.app/downloads/
If I recall correctly it didn't even have those in the beginning. I loved making random curves and filling the resulting shapes with some of the 16 (or 32?) colors available back then.
Our first family computer, a tremendous beast with 128KB of RAM, a 40MB HDD and a whopping 6MHz processor that you could clock up to 12MHz, there was a program that I used to do that too. I can't remember what it was called, pretty sure it was not Paint tho (I faintly remember typing "colors" to get to it). You could draw squiggly lines with a pen tool, enter text, circles and squares, but no triangles. You could also fill shapes with color (2 switchable pallets with 16 colors each IIRC) and even "shade" the area. The shading was just diagonal, parallel lines, but you could choose which direction they go lol
I always need layers. Oops, maybe my needs aren't universal.
Rotating in (classic) Paint is actually a huge challenge lol