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By: George George

George George — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:50:50 +0000

What about xfig? I have been using xfig for stuff like this for a long time. It is a very old app but it is still quite functional and as you said no where NEAR as complex as gimp. It may be just because I am used to it but it seems much more functional and easy to use than the mtpaint app you recommended.

By: Mihai

Mihai — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:18:35 +0000

Open Office Draw is included by default in Ubuntu and you can easily draw circles and arrows in it.

By: Shantanu Goel

Shantanu Goel — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:09:35 +0000

@Benben: Thnx for the suggestion. I didn’t consider dia because of the same reason as u told (i wanted freehand drawing in conjunction with arrows etc). Plus, the export option in dia sucks. Whatever images I export from it into common formats, they always seem to be lousy and many times miss some of the artifacts..

By: Maarten

Maarten — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:53:54 +0000

Thanks for the article, I will try the programs to find out myself, though I really do not dislike Gimp!
Cheers,
Maarten

By: Benben

Benben — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:55:21 +0000

If all you want is to draw a couple of boxes, circles and arrows, may I suggest Dia. It is not a freehand drawing program like mspaint but a diagram drawing program like MS Visio. It is way faster than any of the drawing tools when it comes to putting arrows around shapes

By: Christian

Christian — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:58:28 +0000

Nice post!

Quick question, I installed gpaint and it does all I normally need, gimp is not that friendly. Only one thing I am not seeing… how to save as jpg? I do not get the option, however, I can save the undo versions as jpg? Strange… may be I am missing something very basic

Regards! Christian

By: Shantanu Goel

Shantanu Goel — Thu, 01 May 2008 13:02:54 +0000

@pie: I just gave the flow chart reference as an example, and I don’t need any arrow-shaped clipart, just simple arrows like the line tools.
I primarily wanted them to annotate pics/screenshots, or pretty simple diagrams made to explaing a simple point. That said, as previously mentioned, I don’t have much of an issue with Kolourpaint apart from its KDE/Qt dependencies (though similar things could be said about mtpaint by a KDE user who doesn’t want gtk dependencies )

By: Pie

Pie — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:35:40 +0000

Ah, arrow-shaped clipart? Maybe it’s not MSPaint replacement you’re looking, but Microsoft Visio.
As for glitter effects etc, never used it but i take it as graphic editor feature, not pixelart editor.

Yes I have tried all three, but KolourPaint simply gets the job done, especially for people who just migrated from “The Big Monopolist”.

By: Pie

Pie — Thu, 01 May 2008 12:29:19 +0000

Turned out KolourPaint is better for people migrating from Microsoft Paint or other pixelart editor. A similar and simple interface simply means no re-learning.