Wanted: A Good Paint Program For Linux
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Have been in the hunt for a good basic paint program for linux for so long. I’m running a Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (amd64) box (yeah, yeah I didn’t upgrade to Gutsy because it sneaked up too quickly onto me and the impending loom of LTS goodness of Hardy was also there). Have been suggested various things so far like GPaint, Kolourpaint, tuxpaint etc but none of them cuts it.
Don’t get me wrong, I love GIMP but its an overkill when I have to go through 2 menus, a dialogue box and several clicks, just to make a silly rectangle, but I don’t hold anything against it cuz afterall its an “Image Manipulation” program, not a painting one.
So, what do you use/recommend when you have to draw a few basic shapes, connect them through lines and arrows, put in a mashup of few silly pics and colorize it a bit with basic effects? And are there any gnome native ones or do I ultimately have to give in to install KDE dependencies?
© Shantanu Goel | Wanted: A Good Paint Program For Linux
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This post has 10 comments
April 4th, 2008
You can try searching for some GIMP scripts for drawing lines etc..
April 4th, 2008
Thanks Aron, I’ve already gone down that path. But it still seemed a bit too complex and unintuitive for a simple thing like drawing boxes, lines and arrows.
April 4th, 2008
BTW I tried out the Open Office “drawing” tool. But the problem is that if you export to jpg/png etc then it exports only the content that you drew within it and not any other external images that you might have pasted in.
July 4th, 2008
I’m currently experimenting with Inkscape and Corel.
July 17th, 2008
Please let me know when you find one. I’m looking for the same for the same reasons.
July 17th, 2008
@Cooper/BA: See this post:
http://tech.shantanugoel.com/2008/04/28/windows-app-alternatives-for-linux-mspaint.html
September 12th, 2008
maybe mtPaint is right for you
http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/
September 12th, 2008
Thanks Zoggeth, btw i found out abt mtpaint as well sometime ago and instantly liked it..even made a post about it…see the comment no. 6
November 5th, 2008
I like kolorpaint a lot. more featurefull than the mtpaint, mspaint etc. but just as easy to use.
November 6th, 2008
Inkscape all the way.
It took me a little while to get used to it, but after I got the hang of it, I’ll do graphics in Inkscape whenever I have a choice. I even did all the drawings for my MS thesis with it and they looked great.