What's Wrong with MS Paint?

[Nacho]

I can agree that MSP is good... but I can't about the stalement of "It's better than... in... and..."! PSP can see whatever colour you want as the transparent, and I think it must be the same in PS... About the "It is the best for low res sprites and BGs..." Which is really the problem when working in small resolutions in PS and PSP???

And there's the layers, as some wise man said... :

So... Good? Yeah. The best? I think not in any of the aspects.

[Paper Carnival]

^ and not just white, you can select the transparent color by changing the right color. I use it for this work mostly

[jrl2222]

I have done alot of art work in photoshop with no problems at all....I used to a graphic designer for a screen printing company and also was on the art team for the Hero6 project. I'm not saying you can't do all the things you need in mspaint I am just saying that it is made easier with photoshop if you read up on how to use all the functions. Photoshop wasn't made to be a photoediting program it was made for print media yes that includes photo touch ups and stuff like that but partner it with illistrator and it can't be beat. Try to do a CMYK color seperation with 3 spot colors in most photo editing programs and you won't even find the options. But it still does sprite work just as well as anything else and to make a line just use the pencil...click the first spot where you want it to start...then hold shift and click the spot you want it to end...presto...a line

[Sam.]

Edited as i defeated myself with my own argument, pointed out by lost.

HAve we read the rules?

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1. Is your post interesting, helpful or funny? If not, don't post it.
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my point follows rule 1. this thread has no real point, its not that interesting and there are no jokes. nobody ever said there was anything wrong with paint, so why are you defending it?

[Einoo unplugged again]

Whoever said I was defending it? I just have heard a lot of bad things about it from some and wanted to know everyone else's opinion. And I think this IS an interesting thread, but then for me, watching the grass grow could be interesting.  :

[TheYak]

If nothing else, it introduced my to Paint.NET.  I messed with it a bit last night.  It's still got some shortcomings and annoyingly left-out features but it's certainly leaps and bounds beyond paint.  Strange how they've dropped some features people, probably because they personally don't use them.  I miss the polygonal lasso.   The easy anti-alias toggle is nice and the normal palette is much more useful.  The default filters are fairly crappy but could prove useful occasionally. 

[Moox]

Rule 3 zooty 
I dont see anything wrong with this thread in my oppinion, its harmless like unlike those "LETS REVOLT" threads last week.

Paint is only limited by the user. You could get around missing layers, just Paint the seperate layers, save them individually, and copy/paste. You could do manual anti-aliasing, just about everything. It takes time tho, thats why people prefer other programs, its faster to do complex things.

[DeathWish]

I thought this topic was interesting and I wouldnt have posted otherwise. Zootymust remember that people are allowed different opinions and that doesnt mean that if you dot agree then you can act like a moderator. If you dont like the subject of the thread then dont post. Its simple enough and it lets the people who WANT to have a conversation about a specific topic have one. So please, try not to put people off posting on a thread just because you're not interested in the subject.

[Sam.]

you make a good point lost, however deathwish, if i and one other person wanted to talk about tortoise breeding, would that make it a viable thread?

i retract all prior statements and post my opinion.

I liked mspaint until i got psp, its much mroe diverse and jus faster to get good images. you cannot use layers or get easy accses to a wide palette in paint. it is very basic, but for simple pixel pushing, theres not much wrong with it.

[BOYD1981]

yeh, and if you say people are entitled to their own opinion DeathWish, why did you go all wanna-be-a-moderatorish on Zooty for having his?

[Sam.]

haha!

and for a non one word post, thanks boyd.

[Mr Flibble]

My only experience with PSP was back in the day when I used to buy PC mags.
I'd load the cover disc (which always seemed slightly more demanding than my processor could cope with at a tolerable speed),  find a PSP demo, install, fiddle about, close and go back to M$ pain.

I like MS paint, and heres why. Its easy. No fuss, no mess, you just click and paint. Especially the lasso tool. In the recent free release of Ultimate Paint, the lasso tool is just stupid. I can't really see much use for layers, apart from when I'm animating.

So since UP sucks, and I can't be bothered downloading all the extra files I'd need for the GIMP, I'll stick to Pain. Until I get a scanner, then you won't see me for dust (on my way to buy PSP).