RIP, Microsoft Paint. MS Paint, the first app you used for editing images, will probably be killed off in future updates of Windows 1. Paint 3. D. Microsoft lists the 3. Windows 1. 0’s next autumn update, a little X marking the end of an era. The app is certainly a relic, from a time when the casual computer user couldn’t crack open Photoshop or Skitch or Pixelmator or thousands of web apps. MS Paint can’t save image components as layers or vectors; it’s for making flat static images only. It doesn’t smooth lines or guess at your best intentions. It does what you tell it and nothing more, faithfully representing the herky- jerky motion of drawing freehand with a computer mouse. It’s from a time before touch, a time before trackpads. As more sophisticated options appeared, Paint’s janky aesthetic became a conscious choice. Paint” became the metonym for that aesthetic, even if an image was actually created in another app. TV Tropes lists major limitations that came to define a certain look: the wobbly freehand lines, awkward color handling, and inappropriate export settings that give Paint its distinctive look. ![]() In 2. 01. 4, Gawker’s Sam Biddle noted Paint’s influence on conspiracy theory images, calling the form “Chart Brut.” In amateur detectives’ attempts at identifying the Boston Marathon bombers, the simplicity and jaggedness of Paint evokes the “crazy wall” aesthetic of red string and scribbled notes, apparently without irony. The same year, internet historian Patrick Davison explored Paint’s influence on the last decade of meme culture, particularly Rage Comics. The outsider- art aesthetic feels appropriate to the relatable everyday content, and makes the art form unthreatening. Of course, Paint offered a few features to smooth things out, like the circle and line tools and the “fill” tool, all used in the stoner comics of the early 1. Crucially, those circles still had jagged curves. The bright colors of stoner comics are flat, as MS Paint didn’t support gradients (without an elaborate hack). Contrast those pixellated lines with the slick, stylish face from this art tutorial: This slickness is built into Paint’s successor, Paint 3. D. From the moment you start sketching, Paint 3. D smooths out your art. It also supports automatic selection tools and content- aware fill to rival Photoshop’s.)By automatically improving art, Paint 3. D hides the process behind the image. Paint’s sloppiness is probably why rage comics got so popular. Looking at a rage comic, you can tell exactly how it was drawn, and how you might draw one yourself. By delivering exactly what the artist draws, MS Paint forms an image that the viewer can mentally reverse- engineer and imitate. Unless you go absolutely nuts with it. Reddit user Toweringhorizon painstakingly assembled the drawing “To a Little Radio” using MS Paint tools like the oil brush, stretching the medium while maintaining a pixelated look. It’s one of the top submissions to MS Paint subreddit, a beautiful collaborative art gallery.
Scrolling through this art feels like flipping through the sketchbook of the most artistic kid in high school. There’s an accepted roughness, a desired minimalism. For example, the exquisite raindrops in the work above are reflected in a flat, featureless tabletop. Like a transistor radio, Paint might be showing its age, but this tenacious little gadget should not be underestimated.“To a Little Radio” doesn’t even come close to testing Paint’s limits. As we say goodbye to the app that shaped an era, let us watch this bizarrely soundtracked time lapse of drawing Santa Claus in MS Paint on Windows 7 over the course of 5. We can only believe this is real because faking it would be even harder. Elementary OS 0. 2 Luna. Elementary OS Luna. Elementary OS is another very cool linux distro based on Ubuntu. It has an intense focus on visual design and user experience. It comes with its own desktop environment called Pantheon that is designed to resemble mac. In this post we are going to tweak elementary OS right after a fresh installation and also install some essential apps to fully load the desktop for the best experience. Enable all software repositories. Update 12/30/2014: Once again, the mysterious slipstream has provided us a gem: Red Star OS 3.0 Desktop! Here are the release notes (apologies for messing up the. Launch the terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T. Type in the following command and hit enter.$ sudo software- properties- gtk. It shall launch the dialog box for configuring software sources. Go to the tab named "Other software" and check all boxes named "Canonical Partners" and "Independent". Update the system. ![]() Next, update the package cache and install all upgrades for all applications. Run the following commands.$ sudo apt- get update. After the upgrade completes, reboot the system. Install Aptitude, Synaptic and Gdebi. These are the original package management tools that work better and faster than the Software Center.$ sudo apt- get install aptitude synaptic gdebi- core. Elementary Tweaks and other goodies. Elementary Tweaks is a tool that allows you to customize the elementary desktop further. It can be used to configure the themes, icons, dock, window buttons, desktop effects etc. It comes from a separate ppa.$ sudo apt- add- repository ppa: versable/elementary- update - y. The ppa provides wallpapers, themes, icon packs and more applications$ sudo apt- get install elementary- wallpaper- collection. Wingpanels slim and super$ sudo apt- get install wingpanel- slim super- wingpanel. Themes and icon packs$ sudo apt- get install elementary- .*- theme elementary- .*- icons. The themes, icons, and wingpanel settings can be edited from System Settings > Tweaks. Synapse indicator is a search tool to find apps and files quickly. Install as follows$ sudo apt- get install indicator- synapse. After installation logout and login back, and you should see a search icon in the wingpanel system tray. The versable repository also got some apps that you might want to try out - audience – Media player. Twitter client. cable – IRC client. Youtube viewer. feedler – RSS reader. Image viewer. gazette – Clock, news and weather widget for desktop. Get more browsers. Elementary OS comes with the Midori browser which is a lightweight browser but has lesser features than Firefox or Chrome. Also its difficult to get flash to work on 6. So we can get Firefox, Chromium and its commercial version Chrome (: p)$ sudo apt- get install firefox. For firefox, you can also install the Elementary firefox theme, to make firefox look visually similar to elementary. US/firefox/addon/elementary- firefox/Chromium$ sudo apt- get install chromium- browser. Chrome# 6. 4 bit. Install flash plugin. The following will install the flash plugin for Firefox and Chromium.$ sudo apt- get install adobe- flashplugin. Google Chrome has flash player inbuilt. Vlc - media player. VLC is one of the best media players for most of your video and audio formats. Grab it from the Software Center or run the following command from the terminal.$ sudo apt- get install vlc. Multimedia codecs. Extra codecs allow for decoding and playback of additional multimedia file formats that are otherwise protected by patent laws in some countries.$ sudo apt- get install ubuntu- restricted- extras libavcodec- extra- 5. Support for playing encrypted dvds - $ sudo apt- get install libdvdread. Install support for archive formats. To ensure support for as many archive formats as possible, install the following packages.This includes support for creating and extracting rar archives.$ sudo apt- get install unace rar unrar p.Skype - Voip telephony.Skype is available in the canonical partner repository.$ sudo apt- get install skype.The version in the respository might be outdated.To get the latest version, download the Ubuntu deb installer from the skype website and install it using gdebi. . Dropbox - Cloud storage. Install dropbox to be able to save and sync files from the cloud. Download the Ubuntu deb installer from the dropbox website - https: //www. There is another cloud storage service named Copy that has a native Linux client for syncing files easily. Check out the website at copy. Bittorrent client. Elementary does install a torrent client on its own. Some of the torrent clients available in the software repository include Transmission, QBittorrent and Deluge.$ sudo apt- get install transmission. Uget download manager. If you frequently download files, specially large ones then uget is a good download manager to manage all the downloads in one place.$ sudo apt- get install uget. Libreoffice - Office suite. Elementary did not have an office suite either. So lets get Libreoffice. Openoffice is also available in the repository$ sudo apt- get install libreoffice. Gimp - graphics editing. This is an option tool, if you do not do any kind of graphics editing.$ sudo apt- get install gimp. Pidgin. Empathy is installed by default. However Pidgin has been a very popular multi protocol chat client. So if you are pidgin user then install it.$ sudo apt- get install pidgin. . Clipboard manager.A clipboard manager keeps a history of items that you copy paste here and there.It can be accessed from the system tray.Some of the gtk based clipboard managers are glipper, clipit, diodon etc.$ sudo apt- get install glipper.Guake - dropdown terminal. Guake is a terminal that shows up on the press of a key and hides away when out of focus. Its a handy tool to access the terminal quickly without having to launch it using an icon or menu.$ sudo apt- get install guake. Install proprietory drivers. If you are using nvidia or ati based graphics cards or broadcom wifi card, then install the proprietory drivers available from the vendor. The drivers perform better than the open source versions and get the best hardware performance. Launch jockey ( System Settings > Additional Drivers ) to check if your system needs to install any additional drivers.$ sudo jockey- gtk. Any drivers that are needed for your system would be displayed. To install the latest Nvidia drivers using ppa follow our previous tutorial. How to install the latest Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 1. Trusty Tahr. 20. Install java for browser. The java browser plugins enables browsers like Firefox to play java applets.$ sudo apt- get install icedtea- plugin. Note that Chrome now uses the Pepper api for plugin and the above plugin will not work with Chrome. For the time being there is no Pepper based implementation of java runtime for Chrome. Although the same applies for Chromium as well, but since the version of Chromium is outdated in the elementary software repository, the icedtea java runtime will still work. Display hidden startup applications. Startup applications can be configured from System Settings > Startup Applications. There are lots of applications/services that are configured for autostart, but not visible in the startup applications list. To make them visible run the following command.$ sudo sed - i 's/No. Display=true/No. Display=false/g' /etc/xdg/autostart/*. Once they are visible, it is easy to turn them off if needed. Make partitions writable. If there are more partitions alongside elementary OS and other flash drives that you use frequently, then its a good idea to make them writable from without needing root privileges. Just open the file manager with root privileges$ gksudo pantheon- files. Go into the partition or drive you wish to make writale. Right click > Properties > More , and give Write privilege all users, that is Owner, Group and Everyone. This shall make the partition writable and you would not need to use sudo everytime. Cleanup. After having installed everything, its time to cleanup the system by removing packages not needed$ sudo apt- get autoremove. More apps. If you are looking for more applications for a specific task or just to waste your disk space and network bandwidth, then here is a small list of some good ones that are available from the Software Center. Music player with loads of featuresgufw - Gui tool to configure firewallgtk- recordmydesktop - Recording desktop, screencasting toolhandbrake - Dvd ripping and video convertorshutter - versatile screenshot toolbirdie - twitter client from the versable repositorythunderbird - mail client. Last Updated On : 1.
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