Journal jawtheshark's Journal: Ask MacHeads: Paint.NET alternative for Mac? 11
So the iMac finally arrived somewhere during this week, but I was on vacation so I don't know exactly when. I picked it up at my parents Friday and bothered to set it up today. Apart from the horrible way to type special characters, like the pipe, it seems to work fine. (My iBook came with a thing called KeyCaps, which showed the available special chars on-screen when holding the modifier keys... doesn't seem to exist any more... It was a great tool to learn the shortcuts, I still have that application stored on my server but it's for PowerPC based machines)
Anyway, this is not why I write this journal. In my standard Windows installs, I include Paint.NET instead of The GIMP because, well, GIMP really is a bit awkward. I'm okay with it and my wife did use it before, but Paint.NET is much better for the non-Linux-oriented crowd. Anything like it for the Mac? That, or a payable alternative, max 100€. Otherwise, it will just be the GIMP.
It's mainly for usage with my wifes Wacom.
About KeyCaps (Score:1)
Google knew the answer [macosxhints.com]. Still need to try it since I'm on my Linux machine. Weird how I prefer it over that expensive piece of design ;-)
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What's so weird about preferring linux? Linux "just works" on so many levels. Example - I actually booted into Windows for the last couple of weeks to do much of the puzzle stuff on my laptop - it's quicker to boot back into linux to do massive file transfers between machines, do the transfer, and boot back into windows, than it is to use filezilla to do the transfers. Windows STILL has the file copy bug on some occasions - just not as noticeable.
BTW: I would recommend The Uniform Server [uniformserver.com] if anyone needs
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Linux has an image problem... I keep on hearing from problems over problems, but these simply don't happen with me. (To be fair: you hear about people having problems with XP too, and those don't happen to me either, but then I know how to secure XP installations).
The iMac was bought for two reasons:
The thing with Linux is simple: don't keep using Windows
This just showed up, in Ubuntu's catalogue (Score:2)
It's called Pinta. A GTK+ clone of Paint.Net. I played with it a little, and it worked as advertised.
http://pinta-project.com/ [pinta-project.com]
They have Mac binaries...
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Also - there is pixel. not free - but shareware.
http://www.kanzelsberger.com/pixel/?page_id=12 [kanzelsberger.com]
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Looks exactly like what I need. Thanks! If Pinta doesn't do what I need, I'll check out the other (paying) alternatives.
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I was half looking for something like pinta but then I saw all the mono dependencies :-(
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It only looks like Paint.NET. It's pretty far from it. No Wacom support, so it becomes not suitable for the task intended.
Pixelmator (Score:1)
I use Pixelmator [pixelmator.com]. It isn't free, but is a danged fine image editor.
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Thanks, if Pinta (referenced above) doesn't do what I need, I'll check it out.
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/signed
Well, I installed it, but I haven't actually gotten around to using it much.
Nice from a technical perspective in that it uses the GPU for many tasks.