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Here's What 2019 Holds For Paint.NET (betanews.com)
The developer of the popular image editing tool Paint.NET, Rick Brewster, has shared his vision of what the coming year holds for his software. The 2019 roadmap for Paint.NET is an exciting one, promising migration to .NET Core, support for brushes and pressure sensitivity, and an expanded plugin system.
BetaNews: Changes are on the cards for app icons and improved high-DPI support -- something that may be seen as mere aesthetic by some, but important changes by others. Switching to .NET Core could have big implications for the software, as Brewter explains: "It's clear that, in the long-term, Paint.NET needs to migrate over to .NET Core. That's where all of the improvements and bug fixes are being made, and it's obvious that the .NET Framework is now in maintenance mode. On the engineering side this is mostly a packaging and deployment puzzle of balancing download size amongst several other variables. My initial estimations shows that the download size for Paint.NET could balloon from ~7.5MB (today) to north of 40MB if .NET Core is packaged 'locally'. That's a big sticker shock... but it may just be necessary."
And, for those who're interested: the move to .NET Core will finally enable a truly portable version of Paint.NET since. Proposals for better DDS support and brushes and pressure sensitivity will be welcomed by digital artists, and there can be few users who are not excited at the prospect of an expanded plugin system.
And, for those who're interested: the move to .NET Core will finally enable a truly portable version of Paint.NET since. Proposals for better DDS support and brushes and pressure sensitivity will be welcomed by digital artists, and there can be few users who are not excited at the prospect of an expanded plugin system.
Why would I prefer to download and install this over GIMP?
Just askin
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satisfying everyone's creative needs since Windows 1.0
Bloated executables, bloated Visual Studio updates (another 4 gig download to update to the latest minor version, really?) and crammed with open sores software. I could download that crapware myself without having to bundle it into VS. You never get more than what you pay for.
Too bad Bill Gates retired. He kept that company competitive.
Honestly, I've lost track of just how many of the things MS has built has eventually been left by the wayside because it was never really that good anyway.
I really am forced to conclude that Microsoft really sucks at making software, and what they can't make they buy, and then promptly ruin.
The one to buy is Affinity Photo if you can't afford Photoshop+Lightroom.
For design, Xara Photo and Graphics editor.
Paint.net is just a toy.
Dockable palettes or some other way to make sure they stop overlapping my artwork. Esp. the color palette is bloody annoying.
You mean you have to but this free application that you can download for free?
Pirate Bay affiliates as well. IP spoofing, credit card hacks if you can think of it it was tried, from all those led to the ban
but don't have that URL? Am I missing something? And, to me, paint.net implies it is an online service. The whole thing is confusing.
I don't see a place where I can download the Linux version....
I was hoping they'd announce release under MIT license.
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No mention of the biggest caveat of .net core: the UI framework.
There is no cross-platform UI framework. MS is porting WPF to .net core, but for Windows only.
So, just because you use .net core doesnâ(TM)t mean itâ(TM)s magically cross platform.
a 25 year old paint shop pro is more capable.
"his trolls" == himself, who does he think he is fooling?
This guy is completely delusional!
Yup. Two thirds of his posts would get him nodded down by any sane person. Predictable
I have used Paint.NET for picture editing for over 10 years now, starting when it was a WSU project when Rick Brewster was a Microsoft mentored student there. I support a number of websites, and have a family photo archive. Paint.NET is awesome and I can do pretty much anything I need to do with it. The simple stuff of course, rotating, cropping, adding text or lines or fill, fixing minor photo errors, getting a bit creative. And now and again a few more advanced things like "photoshopping" someone into a photo is fairly straightforward. I am deeply grateful for Rick Brewster and all his work on this. And I am thrilled he has plans far into the future for Paint.NET.
Yet the users — datavirtue, captaindork, the original cdr, just to name but a few — whom you accuse of being him are consistently up modded. Either he's a good poster across multiple active accounts or you're accusing the wrong users of being him. Which is it?
I tried installing Paint.NET about 7 years ago, and it hosed up my PC. The memory of that keeps me hesitant to try again.
Table-ized A.I.
Bring back WordPerfect for that sweet keyboard action.
Yes, it's like Microsoft windows!
I'm the overlord of several WordPerfect sites.
Only recently am I seeing a new bunch of college graduates that have never heard of it and are starting to influence decision makers towards Word instead.
They could not have chosen a worse time to effect this change. Word, more specifically Office 365 is a fucking shit show.
There are thousands of other small projects to be spammed to the front page of /.
The only reason I use paint.net is because it's fast to do simple things. Bloating it up isn't going to help my reason for using it.
Readers like you stopped submitting things of interest to you and started relying on others. Other people came with other interests. A news aggregator like Slashdot is nothing more than the will of its readers. You want to change this?
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Didn't .NET get some stuff opened recently? It's the only reason I keep wine around.
The most interesting part of this is the statements about the .NET Framework. I need to look at the links he posted and really digest them. I suspect Paint.NET is pretty heavily tied to Windows right now, and he mentions COM and GDI+ which seems to confirm it. But I've been under the assumption that if you are targeting Windows, you build against the .NET Framework it is already preinstalled and optimized for that machine. If you are targeting cross-platform, then target .NET Standard and compile against the full framework for Windows machines, and the Core framework for non-Windows machines that won't already have the full framework installed. The idea that .NET Core is "superior" to the .NET Framework is new to me. I suppose just compiling against the .NET Core framework only is more consistent than using .NET Framework on Windows and .NET Core on everything else?
For the simple stuff like cutting a picture or changing its size.
For actual difficult editing/drawing I use Krita, but Paint.NET is excellent for simple tasks. Best part: it is all free.
What, no Paint.UWP?
'Sup wit dat, MicroDaddies?
And this time explain what it is and why I, as a user of a paint program, should care about .NET Core?
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Paint.NET used to be open source, then the developer closed it off because too many people were using the source code. After that I uninstalled it and never touched it again. I also stopped recommending it to people.
There are better open source and commercial offerings out there.
.Net framework 4.8 is coming out in 2019. Its not in maintenance mode, they are making new versions still into next year.
I read a lot of posts here and was wondering if anyone would mention this or if I was just off my rocker.
LOL. This.
Why would someone care what a fat low life fuck has to say on YouTube? We kicked you off here, YouTube comment section is next. I will troll every video you post. You fat lying bafoon.
Another extensible application plugin system without proper security means yet another opportunity for malicious software to be installed.
The firehose is basically a placebo. I repeatedly saw stories voted way up, and never post to the site, while really junky stories with lowball firehose rankings got posted.
That's why I never bother with it. Just a waste of time.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
From the website:
Is Paint.NET free?
There are two releases of Paint.NET. One is free, the other is paid:
Classic: The "Classic" release is downloaded from this website and is provided free-of-charge.
Store: The "Store" release is downloaded through Microsoft's Windows Store and is paid.
The functionality is the same for each release, except that the "Store" release has fully automatic updating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageMagick
Everyone knows that it the secret sauce of the .NET framework.
I very nearly bought Affinity Photo until I discovered that it's spyware which phones home every time you run it
Well what a shame for you as its great software.
The claim it's "phoning" home is quite a big stretch - it's merely trying to fetch some content for the initial welcome screen, passing up things like platform info so it can present the right content.
It also tries to do some updating of internal resources...
Simply block go.seriflabs.com (resources) and welcome.serifservices.com (welcome past stuff) if it bothers you.
If it were "spyware" it would be constantly sending traffic back to Serif, which it does not do - even as you open new images, no new traffic.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I used Irfan for Everything image related.
Paint.net has layers, and several good adjustments.
Paint can print properly, unlike Paint.net. No layers is a killer limitation.
Kritta supports a pressure sensitive stylus which Paint.net does not. And layers etc.
Paint 3D is junkware.
I have not used Gimp for years but it was generally horrible.
Inkscape is vector based, quite different from the above.
If you want software that respects your software freedom, you'll want to get off of using Microsoft Windows (because Windows is proprietary, user-subjugating, non-free software) and use the GIMP. Paint.net is non-free software. It's license clearly states "You may not modify, adapt, rent, lease, loan, sell, or create derivative works based upon the Software or any part thereof." which includes free software freedoms—distributing for a fee, making derivative works, and altering the software.
You see Rick Brewster, Paint.NET author, convey the same anti-software freedom sentiment in the Paint.NET blog article referred to in this story alongside Krita, a free software drawing application licensed under the GNU GPL. Consider a quote from Brewster's own blog:
If whatever "OSS" refers to (I'm guessing open source software) includes not letting users "chop up" the covered software and include code in other projects, then that's a clear and firm difference between the older free software social movement and the younger, business-centric, reactionary open source developmental methodology. Free software allows the user to do precisely what the Paint.NET license prohibit and what Brewster's comment explains. If Brewster is getting this wrong, and "OSS" doesn't stand for what he prohibits, people should take him to task for misunderstanding what open source software means, and they not allow that name to be conflated with proprietary software. But as of yet, I see no followup posts to his spelling out any misunderstanding of his chosen terms (making Brewster's claim another instance of the pattern I described earlier). Brewster also uses the term "IP" (which I'm assuming means "intellectual property") which is a scam that carries a dangerous assumption and should only be used to point out how bad the phrase is.
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How's life in the hypocrite lane?