logoalt Hacker News

anon-3988 • today at 9:48 AM • 9 replies • view on HN

I just want to be able to crop and draw on top of images. Like old Paint. That is literally all I want to ever do with images. What should I use in Linux for this purpose


Replies

lozf • today at 11:03 AM

Perhaps Gradia [0], Pinta [1], or Krita [2].

[0]: https://gradia.alexandervanhee.be/ [1]: https://www.pinta-project.com/ [2]: https://krita.org/en/

graynk • today at 12:03 PM

https://photoflare.io/ is the one I've found to be most usable. Pinta is just unpleasant to use at high resolutions and it's buggy.

wavewrangler • today at 11:12 AM

I easily modified pinta to do exactly this. You mean overlay, right? It can overlay, draw, manipulate, and I added a better file navigator so I can see which imagery I want to overlay to begin with. My use case was scientific in nature. What is yours, if you don’t mind my asking?

bondarchuk • today at 12:02 PM

IrfanView in Wine, f12 opens a really old-school paint toolbox.

TonyStr • today at 10:58 AM

Photocraft has been working alright for me. I really struggled to learn GIMP, and I haven't found any easy lightweight image editing tool that replaces Paint.NET for me before trying Photocraft. It's still a little confusing since I'm not used to photoshop-like bindings and layout, but it hasn't been too hard to adjust. (I also only ever use it for small simple edits, drawing, cropping, color gradients, background removal, etc.)

➕ show 1 reply
amlib • today at 10:35 AM

Use KolourPaint, it's a windows 9x/XP paintbrush clone with only a few improvements tacked on.

phillc73 • today at 9:52 AM

GIMP of course.

adhamsalama • today at 10:29 AM

KPaint

41353aab • today at 10:59 AM

[dead]