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I hope it keeps its blazing-fast startup. I regularly used Paint instead of Photoshop on a system where I had both because Paint starts instantly but Photoshop

I hope it keeps its blazing-fast startup. I regularly used Paint instead of Photoshop on a system where I had both because Paint starts instantly but Photoshop took a bit.

harles 3y ago
I was just reflecting on why I fire up Paint more often than GIMP, and this is the reason. Especially when all I want to do is paste an image, add a small annotation, and copy it back out, there’s no tool as fast.
- dingnuts 3y ago
  You can do all this in the snipping tool without opening a separate app, which is in fact a little faster
  - cfiggers 3y ago
    Yes, except (unless I'm mistaken) the snipping tool can't add text and it can't draw boxes, which are two of the core use cases of screenshot annotation.
    - IG_Semmelweiss 3y ago
      i use monosnap for this reason (free version) The number of times it crashes vs snipping tool, its like night and day. yet i keep coming back for monosnap.... it made my snippets look somewhat professional (gone handwritten arrows lol)
    - jve 3y ago
      https://getgreenshot.org/ https://getgreenshot.org/ Fast, doesn't crash, does what you say and more.
- badsectoracula 3y ago
  It is basically why i have KolourPaint installed on Linux and ready on a launch button despite having a bunch of other 2D image editing apps: it starts (almost[0]) instantly and is perfectly fine for cropping images, adding annotations, etc and then pasting it to imgur, discord, or whatever. The only thing missing is having a tool to draw shapes like arrows (not something the Win9x era MS Paint, which is what KolourPaint replicates, had, but it would be a useful feature IMO). [0] it takes somewhere between half to a second, there is a visible delay between double click and the window appearing but i can live with that. I'm not using KDE as my DE, it is possible it'd start instantly if i already had the KDE libs in memory.
  - IYasha 3y ago
    kudos for KolourPaint, it replaced mspaint for me perfectly too! Set it to Ctrl+Alt+P :)
- sebmaynard 3y ago
  Lightshot is a great app for exactly this. And lines, boxes etc
  - Tempest1981 3y ago
    Indeed. Also, I just read that mouse-wheel lets you adjust the line/arrow size...
jjcm 3y ago
I use photopea quite a bit for this reason. It's faster to open this in a web browser than it is to boot photoshop. The 1/3rd sidebar ad it loads is... a lot, but I'm amazed that I prefer that to a 30s boot time.
- kyriakos 3y ago
  I am surprised how photopea can be so feature complete and still run on an ad supported model. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles or Photoshop but covers 99% of the use cases without having to keep paying for a subscription. I pay for Adobe's photography bundle but primarily for Lightroom; for any other image editing I just go to photopea.
- NayamAmarshe 3y ago
  +1 for Photopea, best free tool ever!

I hope it keeps its blazing-fast startup. I regularly used Paint instead of Photoshop on a system where I had both because Paint starts instantly but Photoshop took a bit.

harles 3y ago

I was just reflecting on why I fire up Paint more often than GIMP, and this is the reason. Especially when all I want to do is paste an image, add a small annotation, and copy it back out, there’s no tool as fast.

dingnuts 3y ago
You can do all this in the snipping tool without opening a separate app, which is in fact a little faster
- cfiggers 3y ago
  Yes, except (unless I'm mistaken) the snipping tool can't add text and it can't draw boxes, which are two of the core use cases of screenshot annotation.
  - IG_Semmelweiss 3y ago
    i use monosnap for this reason (free version) The number of times it crashes vs snipping tool, its like night and day. yet i keep coming back for monosnap.... it made my snippets look somewhat professional (gone handwritten arrows lol)
  - jve 3y ago
    https://getgreenshot.org/ https://getgreenshot.org/ Fast, doesn't crash, does what you say and more.
badsectoracula 3y ago
It is basically why i have KolourPaint installed on Linux and ready on a launch button despite having a bunch of other 2D image editing apps: it starts (almost[0]) instantly and is perfectly fine for cropping images, adding annotations, etc and then pasting it to imgur, discord, or whatever. The only thing missing is having a tool to draw shapes like arrows (not something the Win9x era MS Paint, which is what KolourPaint replicates, had, but it would be a useful feature IMO). [0] it takes somewhere between half to a second, there is a visible delay between double click and the window appearing but i can live with that. I'm not using KDE as my DE, it is possible it'd start instantly if i already had the KDE libs in memory.
- IYasha 3y ago
  kudos for KolourPaint, it replaced mspaint for me perfectly too! Set it to Ctrl+Alt+P :)
sebmaynard 3y ago
Lightshot is a great app for exactly this. And lines, boxes etc
- Tempest1981 3y ago
  Indeed. Also, I just read that mouse-wheel lets you adjust the line/arrow size...

jjcm 3y ago

I use photopea quite a bit for this reason. It's faster to open this in a web browser than it is to boot photoshop. The 1/3rd sidebar ad it loads is... a lot, but I'm amazed that I prefer that to a 30s boot time.

kyriakos 3y ago
I am surprised how photopea can be so feature complete and still run on an ad supported model. It doesn't have all the bells and whistles or Photoshop but covers 99% of the use cases without having to keep paying for a subscription. I pay for Adobe's photography bundle but primarily for Lightroom; for any other image editing I just go to photopea.
NayamAmarshe 3y ago
+1 for Photopea, best free tool ever!