Paint!!! (Microsoft Paint)

Member Name: Mutalisk

Product:	Microsoft Paint
Date:	21/12/09 (93 review reads)
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Advantages: fun, simple, intuitive

Disadvantages: needs some getting used to for more serious drawing, no photoshop features.

MS paint is a superb and early piece of picture manipulation software which comes free with all copies of windows.

Objects can be selected, cropped, cut, pasted, have colours inverted, be flipped at any angle, resized, annotated with text and drawn over with any colour in the exhaustive colour spectrum the software employs, using any brush or line size you'd care to mention. It can save files in bitmap, jpeg and gif format too, and is compatible with all the standard formats you would come to expect, unlike higher quality photoshop icons and file extensions which are usually not particularly compatible with differing software.

Paint gets a lot of bad press because its favoured by children and is often the reason for much sloppy work, but nonetheless, in the right hands it is fine for simple line and cutting picture manipulation and textual annotation, although it does have no effects, filters or proper photoshop capabilities, it has an extremely intuitive and simplistic interface that anybody could work out within seconds. I wholeheartedly recommend Microsoft Paint for those simpler of picture manipulation jobs, as well as construction of simple geometric diagrams and visual aids. but would recommend something like Adobe for proper picture and photographic manipulation, as well as for the actual drawing of detailed items. Microsoft Paint knows what it is, and works very well as a simple tool. Recommended.

Summary: A decent, simple, free little application.

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