Better hold on to your pants, Photoshop. Here's the new contender!
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
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As GIMP cries in the corner.
GIMP 3.0 stomps door with sexy moustache
Screw you Microsoft, I switched to Paint.net forever ago and I'll be long dead in the cold, cold grave before I recognize Missourah, I mean switch back to Paint.
Some other random company got the url "paint.net", so confusingly you need https://getpaint.net/ to download the product paint.net
For those unfamiliar, it's a free art program that's... idk 80% of what photoshop is? But you can install community-made plugins to add features (shoutout to Grim Color Reaper).
Also on their download page, you want this one:
~~If you do the microsoft link, you'll have to pay microsoft. For a free product. That microsoft doesn't own. Dafuq.~~
The paid version from the microsoft store helps to support the product; however I suspect the devs will get more bang-per-buck if you DL the free version and make a direct donation at https://getpaint.net/donate.html
I'm a hobbyist digital artist and have had to do a handful of graphic design projects for my mundane, non-art-in-anyway job.
As our computers are locked down Windows PCs, I've had to manage with MSPaint. It's always taken me double the time as on any other program or app, and I have been wishing it had layers for years.
Since this update is Windows 11 only, I'll have to for my company to upgrade, so I can look forward to layers in maybe 5 years.
I recommend Krita, it's free and open source, and very good at making digital art of any kind.
The commenter you replied to literally wrote the computers are locked down, ie no way to install any new software.
Krita
https://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/krita-portable
There's a portable version that might work.
Win11 exclusive? Welp, guess I'll never use it, then.
Windows 11 is pretty awesome though
- Once you remove all the tracking and ads, which were already fucking intolerable in 10
10
That's where you lost credibility.
Windows 7 was their last non-tracking OS.