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Microsoft Announces Paint 3D, the Biggest Update Ever To the Classic App (theverge.com)
Microsoft is releasing a revamped and modernized Paint app for Windows 10 that let people draw and convert things in 3D. The company announced the app at its keynote today where it stressed the future of making things in 3D. The Verge adds:Users can take photos and easy turn portions of the photo into 3D objects. Along with the app, users can also share work in a new community online that comes with a focus on Minecraft. People can directly export from the game and 3D print whatever they make. The new version of the Paint app was put online earlier this month and available for anyone to download. The app is a Universal Windows app that comes with pen and touch-friendly features, as well as support for 3D objects. The new app stays true to the original Paint app in that it's a basic editing and creating app but with some added 3D effects.
The first version is from 1985... so for 30 years MS paint has been this nauseously crappy application. About time!
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Microsoft could have saved themselves some coding time by going into Corel's Graveyard and buying the source for Canoma (originally made by the same folks who made Poser and Bryce, so the codebase is more than a little yucky and tangled, but still...)
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kudos to Microsoft for forging ahead into the brave new world of crappy homemade VR!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
the dot matrix printing of the 21st century.
But like always, it's not worth downgrading to windows10 to use it.
Also if it's anything like the time they 'improved' paint with the ribbon interface, I don't have high hopes.
MS is funny. That application has been so outdated compared to half a dozen open source apps or even relatively simple javascript apps, it was embarrassing. I went to GIMP/GIMPshop awhile back. If they had done this 10 years ago, I might have been impressed. Now, I'll stick to my GIMP or perhaps Blender if I want serious 3D "painting". (A 7 year old taught himself to use this program a couple years ago, he'll never go to MS Paint again. LOL)
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
Give paint all the crap you want, but for the most basic and quick stuff, it got the job done. I would have preferred them do the notepad/wordpad thing and had the "advanced" version be a separate app. Knowing the them, the bloated version will take forever to load as it pulls in 3d libraries and a horde of other garbage inheritance/dependencies.
I'm glad Microsoft finally put someone in charge that knows what people really want. Do people want proper patch testing, privacy or improved security? NO! People want a better version of MSPaint! Let's hear it for Nadella! ;)
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But hey we have some crappy 3d painting functionality in MS Paint! Hooray?
This will make Adobe madder than hell. First, Silverlight stomped Flash, now this!
I have been using MS Paint XP on Windows 10 and it works great. http://www.mspaintxp.com/
Great. They add in some 3d stuff but you can't even do basic things like make a selection.
Ugh. Is it as good as Paint.net? If I want to do real work, I use Gimp or Photoshop. If its minor / quick, I use paint.net. That's been my go-to for years. I really, really don't think that they should be doing a 3D app until they get 2D right. Looking at the demo video, this latest iteration reminds me of TuxPaint!
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MacOS has a much better program than Paint 3D for doing this type of stuff. It's called Preview. .. ....
OK fine. I lied. Preview sucks you can't even draw properly in it. Why the F doesn't MacOS come with a Paint program??
Wonder how does this Microsoft offering compare to MMD or CM-3D Second Edition? MMD even has Kinect integration.
I think you're right on the 3d front - but i do often wish Paint would have just a BIT more basic functionality when i'm on a windows box as it's the out of the box application on all windows installs.
Similarly, I wish notepad would become notepad++ on every windows box.
Obviously if you're doing real things, Blender/Gimp are not even in the same league. Or the same game.
I can't help but wonder if they didn't feel like messing with Adobe's lawyers. It was bad enough when the whole Netscape/IE thing got them in trouble. So if they went through all the trouble of making something close to Photoshop in terms of capability, they'd just be spending a lot of money to lure a market that's dominated by Mac weenies, and then Adobe sues them. Classic case of a big company not being able to innovate for various reasons. The authors of GIMP aren't worth suing, and small shops can't bring the firepower to bear to un-seat Photoshop. So we're left with what we've got. That's my $0.02 anyway.
This is based on the work by Takeo Igarashi more than 10 years ago. A little late to the show Microsoft...At least they could credit him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2H35SlLmUA
Bring back the old paint!
Awesome - I await POKEY THE PENGUIN in 3D!
The advantage of paint is that it starts up almost instantly and the basic functionality works fine. Eg cropping, erasing sections, resizing, recolouring etc work fine.
Agreed, it would nice if they updated notepad a bit but outdated apps do allow competitors a chance to compete, eg notepad++
yes, that's actually the most interesting story on /. for the last couple of months .. !!
when I bought this book https://www.amazon.com/Teach-Y... I believe the cd contains a program that could turn part of a photo like a building into a 3d object.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
Does it have an UI fit for a desktop PC used with mouse and keyboard? Or is this one of this newfangled mobile-like apps that forces a horrid touch UI on desktop users?
The lovefest just continues all day long!
I especially treasure the first M$ story following this, which also mentions in the introduction *gasp* Paint 3D!
If you have a pulse, boycott this company, now.
Blender is actually pretty good, being that it was originally commercial software. GIMP, on the other hand, is a piece of fucking garbage inside and out. Not just the god-awful UI or lack of basic functionality like adjustment/style layers and script-free automation. It's the slowest graphics program on the face of the earth. Slow at everything from applying even the most basic filters (Gaussian blur) to even using undo feature. And to top it all off, a complete lack of GUI acceleration.
GIMP is overkill for simple stuff: takes too long to load, its menus are too big/deep, and its defaults are set for giant images, not regular. (GIMP's defaults suck for lots of things, now that I think of it.)
For quicky web prep, often I need basic things like contrast, darken/lighten (alpha), tint, overall blur/sharpen, and spot blur/sharpen. If MS-Paint added those to its existing features, I'd need GIMP less than 5% of the time.
Table-ized A.I.
no thanks. i'm not linking windows to a microsoft account or signing-in to the "store" just to use a fucking paint app.
Silverlight stomped Flash
In the same universe where Spock has a beard, maybe.
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Paint.NET is to Paint as Notepad++ is to Notepad.
Don't think for one second that Microsoft gives two shits about developers and their software.
And GIMP is to Paint, as Edlin is to Notepad.
Microsoft was pushing AR/VR today, and while Paint 3D is going to be a quick-and-dirty toy in the same way MS Paint is, I'm wondering if it'll have actual VR, TiltBrush-style functionality. When I had a chance to demo a Vive, TiltBrush was one of the apps I tried, and it immediately became a killer app.
Which is something MS is going to need if they want to sell those 300$ headsets.
It looks gad awful.
People used MS Paint because it was simple with no fancy crap. This 3D junk is just bloatware.
Me, too. If I have to do a lot of work on images, or anything remotely complicated, I install something else, but when I need to take a screenshot and crop it, I can be done in paint before GIMP finishes loading. OK, not quite, but yes, for something like that it's simple and fast.
Stupid sexy Flanders.