Now you have all these newer brushes like airbrush, crayon, etc, which are just fine, but the older ones should not have been removed. If you did a lot of pixel by pixel editing in Paint, the older version let you really make edits on a pixel level using the solid pixel brushes. Fourth mistake: removal of solid pixel brushes When using the pencil, there is no black outline. There is a way around this and that is by using the Pencil tool, drawing the line and then using the paint bucket. Again, minor change, but makes a big difference to certain types of designers. You could just fill the brush stroke with another color and it would fill the entire stroke without any outline.
In Windows XP and Vista Paint, this was not an issue. What I mean is when you draw solid colors using the brush and then try to fill it will a different color, the new Paint leaves an outline around the brush stroke. Third problem: drawing solid colors with the brush doesn't work with paint bucket This is really annoying and makes drawing in Paint a lot more difficult. Now whenever you draw a line, it selects the line and you can’t continue drawing from that point. This made it really easy to do point-to-point drawing using Paint. In the older versions of Paint, you could start drawing a line and then continue drawing another line immediately after releasing the mouse button.
Second annoyance: Paint auto-selects any line or object after you draw it An option should have been added for this to turn on or off. For casual users, anti-aliasing makes everything look smooth and nice, but if you are a graphic artist, you may not necessarily want everything smoothed out automatically. Some people will love this feature, but a lot of people will simply hate it. Let's start off with one of my biggest problems: automatic anti-aliasing on everything. Lots of stuff in my opinion! Most of these complaints are minor, but they all add up to a very frustrating experience for veteran users of Paint. Paint was always meant to be a very simple tool, so there aren’t a whole lot of tabs, buttons or options to start off with. The only other positives I can think of are the inclusion of some more brushes and shapes.
I thought they had gotten rid of the transparency feature, but it’s just hidden under the Select button. In the dropdown, there only four sizes to choose from, which is pretty useless, so it’s essential to still have the ability to adjust the thickness to any size using the hotkeys.Īnother positive is that you can still paste an object and use transparency to remove the white parts to reveal what is underneath. Thankfully, you can still use the CTRL and + to increase the size of the line thickness when using the various drawing tools.
I’ve been using newer versions of Office for the last couple of years and have gotten used to the ribbon interface, so that’s not a big deal seeing buttons rather than menus.Īlso, Windows 8 and Windows 10 use the same ribbon interface across the OS, so everything is going in that direction. That doesn’t necessarily mean it is easier to find the tools or options you want, but the interface is clean and modern.
In terms of the GUI, the new version of Paint certainly looks better.
Windows 7 Paint has a cleaner and more modern look Unfortunately, there aren’t many aspects of the newer Paint that are that great as compared to older versions, however, here is what I could come up with. As you can tell from the images below, the Windows 7 Paint interface is completely different than the XP and Vista version of Paint.
If you just want to do that, skip down to the Install Old Version of Paint in Windows 7/8/10 section.įirst, let’s take a look at the GUI interface differences. I’ll also write about how you can get the old version of Paint and use it in Windows 7 and higher.