Paint.NET
At work a couple of months back I was having a good old moan about the fact that there wasn't a decent free image editor available for the PC. "The Gimp" went up the cry and I installed it and it was seven kinds of balls. I hate hate hate hated it. Maybe it is because I'm a Photoshop user and just couldn't get my head around a completely different way of working. Either way it was so unintuitive that I couldn't complete the simplest of tasks with it. "Don't worry" someone said, "there's a version that re-does the interface to make it like Photoshop!" Brilliant, I thought, that's exactly what I need and I installed it and I saw that it was rubbish. It was about as much like Photoshop as a piece of shit, which is coincidentally what it was. People came across to my desk to offer advice about what I was doing wrong, and then went away as mystified as me as to why it was such a fucking piece of shit. Various other options were suggested but none cut the mustard. So, for the last few months I've been using MS Paint. Yes, that's right, that MS Paint.So, I was delighted today when Tony forwarded me a link to Paint.NET. It is Windows only, but it WORKS! It is INTUITIVE! It has a PHOTOSHOP LIKE INTERFACE! It has LAYERS! It is ultra FAST! Did I mention that it WORKS?! Brilliant. I've not used even all the functionality by any stretch, but I tell you this, I didn't once have to shout "Why the fuck don't you just work you cocking piece of wanking shit!??" like I did with Gimp. I didn't have to be physically restrained to stop me smashing up my computer and chucking the monitor through the window like I did with the Gimp (nearly). It just god damn worked. Why can't all software be like that? ANSWER ME THAT...
2 Comments:
Because sadly not all software developers are as good as you and me.
I'm glad I could be of assistance again. However, the real question to answer is this...
Which is better: Paint.NET or Nectar?
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