I have found a good Graphics program

Phishfry

Phishfry

I have been a drifter for years since Photoshop7. Just too much complication in both Gimp and Krita.


I took it back several notches and started using Pinta. The only thing negative I can say is it drags it Mono.
Still it is light weight and has what I need.
graphics/pinta

www.pinta-project.com

Pinta: Painting Made Simple

Pinta is a free, open-source program for drawing and image editing. It combines powerful features with an easy-to-use interface, making creativity seamless. Available for Linux, Mac, Windows, and *BSD.
www.pinta-project.com www.pinta-project.com
 
The funny thing is I guess this is a Microsoft attraction. I use MS Paint extensively at work on my machine. We have nothing else. Locked down.
You can do alot with MS Paint. I applaud them.
Mono version feels clunkier but who can complain. MS Paint on FreeBSD. Combined with AbiWord it is very enjoyable experience.
 
I’ve been photoshop CS6EE since it came out.

Then somebody in china turned up with my serial and Adobe invalidated it trying to move me to subscription.

I bought ON1 but have not moved over to it yet.
 
sidetone opened a thread on about the exact same topic in August 🥸.

But I fully agree:
99% of all of my paint jobs are just draw a line, encircle a detail, place an arrow, or some text into a picture. For that Gimp is like using an aircraft carrier for crossing a creek.
So, I also missed good because very simple, almost primitive MS Paint - It's like the paint programs we had in the 80s.
I tried a while with xpaint - too many windows (for most jobs I don't need 16M colors, I need 8, maybe 12), or tuxpaint, and inkscape, which to me both are too weird in their usage, as that I could quickly do my primitive tasks with them.
Since sidetone pointed me at Pinta, I agree:
It can do more, and is way better than MS Paint, but at the same time and above all at the simple things it's simple and quickly to use: open a picture, draw a line, save the picture.
No need to deal with layers, masks, different tool modi, and consult the manual again, if all you wanna do is to just take a magic marker and draw a circle around a house on a map.
 
The Affinity programs have moved to a Freemium model, the basic programs don't cost anything anymore. Would be interesting to know whether they work in Wine.
 
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