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Windows 7's MS Paint

AXavierBAXavierB
edited 2011-02-24 07:02:17 in General
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.

Comments

  • MiyaMiya
    Don't use Paint.
  • snowbullsnowbull
    Cue-bey
    Don't use Windows 7.
  • SaigyoujiSaigyouji
    But you never had any to begin with.
    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_VortexTrash_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.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    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_VortexTrash_Vortex
    edited 2011-02-24 11:47:31
    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.
  • DYREDYRE
    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.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    I have Windows X7P, fgts.
  • Super LazuliSuper Lazuli
    yea i make potions if ya know what i mean
    Internal recording on Audacity requires a plugin, I believe.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    X7P?
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    ...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 D:
  • DYREDYRE
    ...why are you using Photoshop for pixel art?

    Use GraphicsGale or some other program that's more suited for it.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    Why so many pixelart programs

    why

    why

    y

    [insert that one Robotnick WHY YTP here because I cant find it]
  • DYREDYRE
    There's actually not that many programs specifically for pixel art.

    Which is too bad.

    More options is a good thing.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    Yeah, I need it for MC so I can annoy everyone with Uboa statues everywhere.
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