Unless this slows down the load up time, in which case i think i could, begrudgingly, accept just seven. I don't need infinite undo (i'm not quite that messy) but at least twenty levels would be good. The 'undo' stack is only three levels deep. They allow you to save in these formats, so i think they should allow you some degree of control over how the image is compressed. So if you want to resize your image to 32x32, say, you need to reach for your Calc.exe. You can stretch to a target size in Percent, but not in Pixels. This is a curious oversight in the Paint experience. This only seems to occur when thicker line styles are used. In addition, the mouse scroll wheel should perform zooming (perhaps when 'ctrl' is held down).īoth 'Ellipse' and 'Rounded rectangles' suffer from a bug where the shapes created are not symmetrical. Instead I'd like to see 'Larger' and 'Smaller', allowing you to move right up through the available sizes, without having to choose the 'Custom.' menu. The 'Zoom' menu (under 'View') has options for 'Normal Size' and 'Large Size', which are actually 100% and 400%. It should be as simple as selecting an area and pressing a 'Crop' item on the Edit menu. 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.

Show the line-thickness panel whenever it's relevant.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. Have a 'Page Setup' button in the toolbar of the 'Print Preview'.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. Drop Shadows, Alpha-Blending, smart fill.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

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