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Paint.NET: The Anti-GIMP?

Posted by timothy on from the translucent-tools-are-smart dept.

Arno contributes a link to Paint.NET, a free-of-charge raster-graphics program for Windows XP machines. "Quote: 'Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP. Paint.NET is jointly developed at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft, and is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with GDI+ extensions.' It really seems like a nice tool. I definitely prefer its UI to GIMP's."

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  1. Here it comes. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Before we all do the obligatory "GIMP r0xx0rz, .NET sux", please try downloading this... after it's Slashdotted. Very nice product, it doesn't have the advanced image conversion GIMP does, but very useful indeed.

    I wonder if they used P/Invoke so I can run this on Mono?

    1. Re:Here it comes. by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Why are we comparing a simple painting program to the GIMP? It's like comparing an apple to an orange tree...

      This is just a simple painting program, it works great for simple quick tasks. The GIMP is designed for more complex graphical tasks...

      Compare GIMP to Photoshop. That's a legit conversation.

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    2. Re:Here it comes. by rynoski · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Comparing the GIMP to photoshop is like comparing an apple to an orange tree...

      You are better off comparing the GIMP to PaintShop Pro.

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  2. A replacement for MS Paint by Pacifix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If it's meant to be a replacement for MS Paint as the blurb states, I don't think the Gimp should feel threatened. The chasm between Paint and Gimp is lightyears wide. It's unlikely this program could attract the OSS devotion necessary to become really big, especially what with its association with MS and the sometimes irrational dislike this inspires in some of us.

  3. See the trap? by jmorris42 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I see several interesting things here. Note how they had to use a GDI+ 'extension'? And someone is reporting sluggishness anyway, even on hardware that is fairly new. Tells me .net suffers from Java's Disease along with any other emulated environment and that the move to add in native hooks is already well underway. And of course it is in Microsoft's interest to make sure that .NET is 'multiplatform' in the hype but Windows only in practice.

    Let this be an object lesson for all you Mono fetishists, .net and all it's works are nothing but a trap for the unwary. And will never live up to the hype anymore than Java did, although there is now hope for Java to become useful by jetisoning the emulation and making it just another object oriented language that GCC will grind down to ELF executables.

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