Paint.NET is going downhill.

Anphiba · Postby **Anphiba** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 4:13 pm

Paint.NET in my opinion is getting worse and worse as time goes along.
I've been having problems with it left and right.
I have a couple of questions as well:
How do you fix the antialiasing thing permanately?
How do you get the Paint Bucket to Fill in exact color section instead of similar colors?
I really think Paint.NET is being fucked up turning more into a Photoshop than a normal Paint Program.

Someone help?
Also, what is your opinion about the new Paint.NET?

TLtimelord · Postby **TLtimelord** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 4:29 pm

I honestly don't know because I haven't updated my paint.net for quite a while now.

Garro · Postby **Garro** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 4:40 pm

Don't blame the program for the user ignorance. (Not to mention, turning into more Photoshop is a better thing, anything near MS Paint is bad).
-Not sure what you mean with anti-aliasing. If you mean soften border, there's an option called smoothing near the hardness bar.
-There's a thing called tolerance in the bucket and magic wand. A 0% tolerance will only pick up only the exact color.

YouTube · Postby **bossedit8** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 4:41 pm

Well, I am still using Paint.NET Version v3.5.11 and everything is for me easy to use. I never touched the newer Version to this programm so I do not really know what to respect by v4 or something to that. Once I get a Message that a new version has been arrived, I just pressed the red 'X' on the top right on the Update Window because I still want to use the same Version I have currently.

I have no idea what made it worse just by updating it or maybe I just forgot everything what has been updated.

Garro · Postby **Garro** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 4:46 pm

bossedit8 wrote:Well, I am still using Paint.NET Version v3.5.11 and everything is for me easy to use. I never touched the newer Version to this programm so I do not really know what to respect by v4 or something to that. Once I get a Message that a new version has been arrived, I just pressed the red 'X' on the top right on the Update Window because I still want to use the same Version I have currently.

I have no idea what made it worse just by updating it or maybe I just forgot everything what has been updated.

Tbh I havn't noticed much changes. The most evident is the revamped GUI, Everything is partially the same, maybe less lag, a kinda better support for tablets, and now the zoom buttons are under the window. A hardness % for the brush. More shape options and that's pretty much.

Anphiba · Postby **Anphiba** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 5:11 pm

Garro wrote:Don't blame the program for the user ignorance. (Not to mention, turning into more Photoshop is a better thing, anything near MS Paint is bad).
-Not sure what you mean with anti-aliasing. If you mean soften border, there's an option called smoothing near the hardness bar.
-There's a thing called tolerance in the bucket and magic wand. A 0% tolerance will only pick up only the exact color.

Well, what I meant is... Paint.NET isn't really good for spriters anymore and they put these new stupid features in it that make no sense. I never really find the use for these features whether I'm editing a sprite or a normal picture.
Also, thanks for the advice. I really needed to be able to fix that tolerance thing. I really only got Paint.NET as a replacement for MS Paint, not for a photoshop.
I'm not experienced with the new Paint.NET, but if there's an update, I'm forced to download it. So there's something crappy implemented every time I update.
The only helpful things are the new options for the brushes.

Postby **Marina** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 5:32 pm

Anphiba wrote:Well, what I meant is... Paint.NET isn't really good for spriters anymore and they put these new stupid features in it that make no sense. I never really find the use for these features whether I'm editing a sprite or a normal picture.
Also, thanks for the advice. I really needed to be able to fix that tolerance thing. I really only got Paint.NET as a replacement for MS Paint, not for a photoshop.
I'm not experienced with the new Paint.NET, but if there's an update, I'm forced to download it. So there's something crappy implemented every time I update.
The only helpful things are the new options for the brushes.

Well, Paint.NET is not made for spriters-only and I for one find it great that they're implimenting new features (if I'm EVER gonna get away from doing only spriting...) Of course I was confused too in the beginning when I couldn't get the bucket to work like I wanted it to work, but I got used to it, and you're gonna get used to it too, or downgrade to an older version... if you can find one...

Valtteri · Postby **Valtteri** » Sat Aug 02, 2014 5:40 pm

You can read my thoughts on the update here. I posted this quite some time ago. http://www.smbxgame.com/forums/v ... =50&t=1275

After using the latest version for a few months, I got used to it, sure, but the origin thing or whatever (the point that appears when you use the can tool and you can move it around) is still really annoying. I don't like the fact that I have to press enter after every time I've used the can tool. It should be disablable.