Microsoft Paint screenshots in Windows 7
The new Microsoft Paint in Windows 7 is wonderful. Gone are pixelated art. Microsoft Paint upgrades are now looks pretty for simple image manipulation. Of course, if you’re asking for more, Microsoft Paint still lacks the features of GIMP and Photoshop but it’s got decent at least. As you can see it has adopted Microsoft Office’s ribbon interface.
Microsoft paint in Windows 7 overview
I painted a tree as I would have during kindergarten. I love trees so long as they don’t come with chameleons.
Microsoft paint in Windows 7 lets you choose some brushes
The new brush feature is great. I choose water color. There’s others to play with.
And some shapes too.
Simple shapes kinda remind me of Microsoft Office, still cool of course.
You can also view grids and rular in Microsoft Paint
I never like rulers and grids. Found them too restrictive but it’s there so…
Here are the formats you can save as in Microsoft Paint
Microsoft Paint lets you save in common image formats. I should highlight that the default save is PNG.
All in all, Microsoft Paint in Windows 7 is definitely an improvement. In the previous versions of Windows (even in Vista), Windows Paint is rather limited. This makes any form of improvement a significant one. I wouldn’t say it’s genius but let’s just say you would see me paint with Microsoft Paint a lot more from now on. Love the look and feel.
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Like you said, Windows 7 Paint is no Gimp nor Photoshop, but dang, it’s a vast well needed and welcomed update. Nobody can rightly say that the previous versions of Paint was any way better.
Sep 07
They killed Paint!
Paint is and always has been a pixel art program. Sure the new layout and tools may be easier and whatnot but if there isn’t an option to pixel, I’m never going to buy Windows 7.
D:
Dec 01
Paint is pointless now. It’s a pixelart program, MS should know if people want a free program like that they can easily have gimp. Even though I really dislike the vista/7 look anyways, changing MSpaint to this completely ruins it for me- no way would I ever buy. And I doubt any pixel artist would say this is an ‘improvement’ only the people who dabble in paint.
Dec 24
Cccc, there is still the pencil tool where you can do pixel art.
Dec 27
Wow a pencil tool! And what happened to foreground / background paste? Sorry got dropped out. It’s now part of the bloatware that’s Microsoft. 2010 looks like the year of iMac. Good job Microsoft.
Jan 24