Anyone else still use MS Paint?
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I still use photoshop, but I also like sketching in Paint.
I'm aware how other digital art programs are superior to it, but I like Paint boots instantly.
I also like using the 1 pixel pencil and its "natural aliasing" it produces. Having no layers also challenges me to be more resourceful.
I'm aware how other digital art programs are superior to it, but I like Paint boots instantly.
I also like using the 1 pixel pencil and its "natural aliasing" it produces. Having no layers also challenges me to be more resourceful.
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I'm curious how you're even doing it.
I mean, if you're doing 2D retro pixel art I can see how it might be possible to use it, but does it even support transparency?
I use it for sketching. I just start up the program, select the pencil tool and draw. Paint is compatible with Cintiq so I use a stylus also.
That's just a sketch though. Painting/texturing is done in Photoshop but I don't like to draw in that program. I scan in a drawing done by hand and work on top of that.
For example, here's a tank I want to draw. I can quickly create proportions and perspective guides using the line tool in Paint.
Photoshop has a line tool, you can also just paint straight lines with any regular brush by clicking anywhere on the canvas then shift clicking somewhere else.
I never said Photoshop can't do these things. I even said in the OP they're all superior.
The purpose of the thread was wondering if anyone still used Paint for anything. Just because something is outdated doesn't mean it can't be useful. I still have old game consoles I play for example.
I mentioned I still use Photoshop. Just not for drawing.
I also mentioned it's quicker. Photoshop takes time to boot. If Paint can do something I want faster, I use that instead.
Why would anyone use it these days?
Some of them I don't want to show because I only spend 2 minutes on them. They were never created to be shown in a portfolio.
Even before I had an SSD I had no problem waiting the 30+ seconds for it to launch. Dunno what you're making in MSPaint but I guess you're in a hurry.
Seems odd that you would put such a huge emphasis on your applications launch speed yet you don't have any problems wasting time drawing on paper then scanning your drawings in to work on in photoshop...
I don't know how long it takes for Photoshop to boot for you, but it takes around 11 seconds without an SSD for me. Surely that isn't a significant amount of time, I can't even walk to my kitchen and grab a glass of water in 11 seconds!
I've realized the thread is a mistake and getting it deleted instead. But before it does, I spend most of my time in Photoshop. Drawing is just the hobby part for me.
I've had a game idea where I would want everything to resemble crayon art. From the shaders to the textures being drawn with actual crayon as well.
And don't even get me started the tools you will use, like pencils, I bet you would buy those as well. Way to fuel the natural resource communistic depleting regime.
A real artist would create his tools from scratch, and environmentally conscious enough to make them from recycled material. Do that, then you may have the privilege of using a scanner.
Only by seeing your own children die before you eyes, and have forged their bones into your weapons of literature, can you call yourself a true brush-warrior.
I use MS paint if I'm intentionally trying to make something look shitty.
And since no one said they still used MSPaint. I'll mention that my friend (who is a GLAMOROUS painter) still uses it to paint doodles and other nonsense.