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LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc to Ask@piefed.socialEnglish · 7 days ago

What would be a nice open source alternative to paint ?

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What would be a nice open source alternative to paint ?

LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.cc to Ask@piefed.socialEnglish · 7 days ago
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  • Bubs@lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    deleted by creator

  • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
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    not foss but you can run win7 mspaint.exe under wine

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    Krita might be more than you’re looking for, but it’s a solid art program.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    Kolourpaint. Worth even if you don’t use KDE.

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      It’s a multimedia specialist distro. Any idea how much of storage kolourpaint occupies ?

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        Kolourpaint itself is small; the package is just under 6MB. However it depends on a lot of KDE libraries, so if you don’t have those installed, I’m eyeballing 100MB~200MB.

        • LoveEspresso@cafe.coffee-break.ccOP
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          Could this be a reason why it’s not opening on my windows 10 laptop ??

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            Could this be a reason why it’s not opening on my windows 10 laptop ??

            Sorry, I thought you were talking about Linux. You could make Kolourpaint work in Windows through some WSL, but it’ll be probably too much of a bother.

            For Windows I hear a lot of people talking about Paint.NET. It is not open source. You could also try Krita, also from KDE; unlike Kolourpaint it has a native Windows version, but it’s a bit more advanced (usually when people ask for a Paint equivalent they want something simple).

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    kolourpaint

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    Well, I don’t know about latex, but you could probably make a halfway-decent oil-based paint with clay.

    Not sure which oils you should use, but I’m willing to bet there’s quite a few that would be fairly compatible.

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      You’re joking ?? I’m referring to the program called paint.

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        I was joking.

        Although it did make me wonder about the open sourcedness of paint and paint products for non-computer usage.

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          There is this whole paint carry-on, when some noob tried to legally restrict a paint colour. Resulted in others responding with an ‘open source’ black paint being released. (3rd paragraph)

          https://www.printmag.com/design-news/blink-is-the-new-black-introducing-the-blackest-black-ink/

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            Didn’t the person who developed the “pinkest pink” allow everyone to use it… except for the guy who tried to restrict vantablack, as a reciprocal [email protected]?

            Edit: LOL, that exact story is one of the top posts on that sub.

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              Who’s Anish Kapoor ??

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                He’s the person who holds the exclusive rights to use vantablack in art.

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    OH. There is a program called LazPaint that is pretty decent, I forgot I installed it along with the other software when setting up this distro. https://lazpaint.github.io/

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    I’m using Tux Paint.

    Has kiddie sound effects, just mute to skip them if needed.

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    Pinta

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