But in MSPaint, Cropping takes a lot of pointing and clicking. Thanks to digital cameras, everyone knows the importance of cropping (or trimming) an image to improve the message. Yet it is only visible (and configurable) while using the line and curve tools. The line-thickness panel is relevant while using these tools: Line, Curve, Rectangle, Polygon, Ellipse, Rounded Rectangle. Make them available while viewing a print preview. Because of their placement, these options are largely ignored. 'Page Setup' (currently only available from the File menu) includes excellent features such as choosing to scale the image to fill the page, or switch between landscape and portrait. This is annoying and makes it hard to place your text exactly where you want it. The 'font' tool doesn't work while you are zoomed in. Here's my top ten really simple fixes or improvements for MS Paint.
I've written a list of features I'd genuinely like to see in Paint.īut first, here's the type of features I don't want to see in MSPaint: Paint is easy.īut if Paint were to be improved, what would it take? Paint is not a rival to big image editors.
Replacing it with 'Paint.Net' is to overlook the Zen of Paint. Editor, functional, microsoft, toolbar, tools
