Microsoft Paint Innovation
January 30th, 2008, Category: Design Inspiration Web Design News Website Marketing
A unique look into the world of Microsoft software development which focuses on their MS Paint application, from developing the application to actually using its unique features and tools including the eraser tool and the new “save” function.
Chris
MS Paint is very basic! Check our Photoshop CS2 which is fairly advanced once you get the hang of it!
Paul Carey
Paint is a leg-end, I know a guy that can paint, paint masterpieces NO JOKE either, here’s me using photoshop, fireworks the lot and this guys stuff looks better then mine in paint! Maybe im just rubbish at image editing though.
Paintsucks
Paint is the most useless program I have ever seen.
Biggest problems: ONLY 3 LEVELS OF UNDO HISTORY, NO ANTI-ALIASING, NO LAYERS, and many, many more
Anthony
@ Chris, I’m a big fan of Fireworks and Illustrator myself, Fireworks for layouts and most web graphics, Illustrator for logos and in depth or detailed work due to its great pen tool.
@Paul Carey, I know some amazing artists can can create in any medium also.
@all, Jokes aside – paint does have one valuable function for a modern web developer and that is that you can save as a .ico that is an icon for your bookmarks / favourites – also called a favicon.
prydie
HaHa paint is almost the worst thing microsoft have made.
Andrew Pryed
Darkimmortal
Sorry, but where in paint is there an option to save as .ico (looking at paint on both XP SP2 and Vista Ultimate).
What you are doing is most likely saving a bmp file with a .ico extension, which is most certainly not an ico.
Just get a photoshop ico plugin for favicons, or to be more up-to-date, save a png as .ico.
Computerden
lol, yes paint is rubbish and there are so many better products on the market. although my younger cousins love messing around with it.
tom, nottingham
Yes, paint is basic but that doesnt mean you can’t create a great design or bit of artwork… check out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2sPl_Z7ZU&feature=related if you don’t beleive me!
Kelli Myers
MS paint is almost of no use…there are many other tools which are more sophisticated like Photoshop,corel draw, illustrator,etc. MS paint is for kids who have fun with computers while learning the basics.
Stevie D
I love the way people take that video seriously
Mya
that video is sooo stupid the future is in the past!!
Aswathy
Well we have much better programs these days. Paint might work for the kids but never for professionals.
Pedja
Ha, ha, this is very good joke.
It is not only about ms paint but it is also about similar type of advertising on YouTube.
Used RV for Sale FL
Nowaday MS paint uses for children and so many good designing program available at market.
Mike
Before I used photoshop and illustrator, well long before, I used paint and as a kid I found it quite brilliant really. It was a great simple little tool that I managed to produce some interesting designs in.