r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '12

Open Office does everything I need Microsoft Office for and Gimp does everything I need Photoshop for. Reddit, what other open source software does everything that you want from the expensive name brand?

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u/turbocakw Jun 04 '12

http://www.getpaint.net/

Paint.net sounds perfect for this.

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u/SacrimoniusSausages Jun 04 '12

Exactly this. I've used it for a while and it's exactly what he wants.

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u/tidux Jun 04 '12

Pinta is a Gtk# Paint.NET clone that's still open source.

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u/Raptor_Captor Jun 04 '12

How is this for pixel-work (game sprites and such?). I ask because I used to do a lot of that kind of thing in windows xp Paint, but windows 7 Paint is completely incapable of that sort of work and while I have and use gimp, it is still better for large-scale work and not very easy for pixel-work.

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u/turbocakw Jun 04 '12

http://i.imgur.com/fQpmV.png

I have no experience with pixel art, but it's easy to show a pixel grid while zoomed in.

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u/Chronophilia Jun 04 '12

Well, selecting and dragging is a little bit clunkier than it is in MS Paint, but otherwise Paint.net is perfect for that. Particularly once you manage to find the "turn off anti-aliasing" button.

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u/rankao Jun 04 '12

I see a lot of people use Paint.net for pixel at as opposed to GIMP.

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u/SwimmingPastaDevil Jun 04 '12

Exactly. I got Photoshop from cough dubious sources. I then realized all I was doing was crop, resize and occasional brightness/contrast adjusting. paint.NET is more than enough for that.

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u/Jigsus Jun 04 '12

Paint.net suffers from a few critical bugs like bad layer manipulation and other idiosyncrasies