Image manipulation isn’t something the average home user has to worry about for their average day to day computer use – but come on Microsoft, Paint hasn’t been updated in a major way since – what Windows 95?
Before posting this blog I had a look at the Paint application on my new Win7 Ultimate installation and the only new additions to the app I could find are shapes, new brushes and the ability to save files as png…The UI has changed – I’ll give you that but that doesn’t add any new functionality!
Ok – The new brushes are cool – but where’s the layer based image composition?, the magic wand-like selection tool? and all the other blahde blahde blah yakedy smakedy?
Well they’re not there…
So do yourself a favour and get Paint.Net installed. It’s got more than enough features for the average PC user that doesn’t need Photoshop.
