Castle Paradox

RPGCreations · **E Pluribus Unum** Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 345

With a new program called Paint.NET

http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/

It's a joint project between MS and the college. It can use layers and all that, and I find it's user interface to be a lot better than GIMP's.

-Fyre
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LeRoy_Leo · Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 6:30 pm Post subject:

Wow. Brand spankin' new, I see! I need to check this one out... Really badly.
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Tsunamidog · Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2004 7:33 pm Post subject:

I need to use that.....alot.
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NeoTA · **Idiomatic Nomenclature** Joined: 15 Mar 2004 Posts: 165

seems much better than mspaint; if they include it with windows eventually, good. Although if i developed on that, i'd feel depressed; it's the generic-layered-paintprogram. As usual for microsoft, a clone. Maybe that explains the bugginess of their software: the development team feel too depressed about the project's blatant unoriginality to bother with thoroughness, and so do the project managers. haha.
The transparency of windows could be useful, though with a large desktop (2048x1536) it becomes redundant.
(and with X.org, you can do that independantly of the application anyway Happy

Regarding the interface: how is it better than Gimp2? Does it implement any of:

a) painting
b) keyboard shortcuts
c) layer manipulation
d) dialog docking
e) file formats (very important, even more so if microsoft intends to include it with future Windows releases.)

either more powerfully or more usably than Gimp2 does?

Rpeanut · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 10:49 am Post subject:

Looks nice, I'd say photoshop and the gimp are better, but hey it's free Happy

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....I'm still using MSpaint though.
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Uncommon · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 4:02 pm Post subject:

It looks suspiciously like OpenCanvas.

jabbercat · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 4:13 pm Post subject:

I've used it and I must say, it is superior to gimp. It has easy acces to transpareny so brilliant for web graphics. A tiny bit buggy, but other than that, great.

TMC · Posted: Thu Dec 23, 2004 5:41 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately, the site is DEAD right now, but I'll be sure to look at this later.

EDIT: After finding a download elsewhere, I realised I needed a newer verson of the .NET framework than I have. Fuck this.
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RPGCreations · **E Pluribus Unum** Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 345

.NET 1.1 came out a long time ago, TMC.

A very long time ago.
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LeRoy_Leo · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 12:50 am Post subject:

I haven't found any big bugs in this program yet. Can someone tell me what bugs this thing has. That way I know where to find them, and I won't get an unpleasant surprise if one happens to pop up.
Thanks in advance.
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"Seriously James, you keep rolling out the awesome like gingerbread men on a horror-movie assembly line. "

jabbercat · Posted: Fri Dec 24, 2004 1:34 am Post subject:

The erase to backround tool is a bit rough, when set to '1' it isn't perfecly square. It's something like:
x
x

Rather than just:

x

Other than that, awesome.

TMC · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:42 pm Post subject: