Windows 7's MS Paint

AXavierB

I recently upgraded to Windows 7 by perfectly legal means and, since I've been practicing my drawing, decided to scribble in Paint a bit last night.

Only to realize that Paint isn't Paint anymore. It forsakes Paint's basic, bare-bones functionality in the name of having cheap knockoffs of Photoshop features. Every line, every stroke, it all anti-aliases automatically. There are now different textured brushes and the toolbar has been completely nerfed to hell.

Basically, they changed it, now it sucks more than it's supposed to.

Miya

Don't use Paint.

snowbull

Don't use Windows 7.

Saigyouji

The thing I dislike about W7's version of Paint is the fact that it makes pixel art about ten times harder than before.

Trash_Vortex

What's dumb: Windows Vista's paint defaults to saving things as a JPEG. That's all I need to say on the matter...

Also, the sound recorder has a delay whenever you hit stop or record, so you get a chunk of unnessecary noise all over it. You also can't even play it back until you've saved it. You also need to credit the artist and the song title. I gave all mine to "Limp Bizkit", and the even worse thing is they're in my Windows Media Player under "Limp Bizkit". I imagine in my head, proffessional bands using this thing to record whole songs, with no editing or retakes, and BrokeNcyde are the only band who are brave and professional enough to record music like that, so it is, essentially, useless in any way. I downloaded Audacity instead, it is better absolutely.

glennmagusharvey

I use GIMP anyway.  If your system can run Win7 competently, it ought to be able to run GIMP competently.

That said, I use Paint to do simple things like screenshots and simple crops, and I tend to save them in PNG format by simply typing ".png" after the filename.

Can Audacity do external recording (microphone) as well as internal recording (record what the speakers play)?

Trash_Vortex

Regarding Audacity: Yes

Actually, I haven't tried internal recording yet, I can't find any option to do it. You can open and edit existing sound files, so that could be the next best thing.

DYRE

Internal recording is dependant on your sound hardware, drivers, OS, etc.  And not really so much on the program you're using.
A lot of the sound cards (and their associated drivers) that come with computers don't allow directly recording their output, probably for copyright reasons or something silly.

Tnophelia

I have Windows X7P, fgts.

Super Lazuli

Internal recording on Audacity requires a plugin, I believe.

glennmagusharvey

X7P?

Icalasari

...Well crap. I've been using photoshop more and more for pixelart, but MSPaint is still useful for a few things

And now you're saying that they managed to wreck it

Crap. Photoshop takes too long to start up for a lot of stuff

DYRE

...why are you using Photoshop for pixel art?

Use GraphicsGale or some other program that's more suited for it.

Tnophelia

Why so many pixelart programs

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[insert that one Robotnick WHY YTP here because I cant find it]

DYRE

There's actually not that many programs specifically for pixel art.

Which is too bad.

More options is a good thing.

Tnophelia

Yeah, I need it for MC so I can annoy everyone with Uboa statues everywhere.