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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.
Actually, Microsoft did try to take a stab at Photoshop back in 1998-1999 or so, using (IIRC) the same name - "Paint 3D". They included an application CDs in their TechNet subscription packages for awhile; it stopped showing up in 2000-ish.
The interface blew goats, it was slow and occasionally quite buggy (at least on NT 4), but it did have some ideas in it worth exploring; I think it most likely died a quiet death due to the monopoly lawsuit...
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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could have saved themselves some coding time by going into Corel's Graveyard and buying the source for Canoma (originally made by the same folks who made Poser and Bryce, so the codebase is more than a little yucky and tangled, but still...)
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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.
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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They also bought ImageComposer, which was a really powerful piece of image editing software with a (deceptively simple) UI that made it look like paint.