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Windows Vista Makes Your Life Easier?

Friday, January 26th, 2007
at 8:21pm

I kid you not. Here’s the official process for saving an image in a different format inside Windows Vista (using only what ships with the OS). Directly from the Windows Vista help center:

To save a picture in a different file type

  1. Click to open Windows Photo Gallery.
  2. Click the picture you want to change.
  3. On the toolbar, click Open, and then click Paint.
  4. Paint will open with your picture displayed.
  5. Click the File menu in Paint, and then click Save As.
  6. Click the Save as type list, and then click the file type you want to use to convert your picture.
  7. Click Save.

I discovered this only after being told that I couldn’t adjust saturation, hue, etc. on a BMP image. Sounds like a niggling point to bring up at this stage in the game, but it only underscores my initial arguments. “Wow?” This kind of workflow would have been acceptable in the days of, say, Windows 95 - but Windows Vista’s Photo Gallery should have been a bit smarter. If I can’t Fix a PNG or JPG in the Gallery viewer, then why is the toolbar button still illuminated? This isn’t just a fontface oversight.

I’ve been living inside Windows Vista (32-bit) for the past week, and I don’t think I could go back to Windows XP. I want Windows to be better - as a consumer, as a technologist. Maybe that’s why I’m disappointed when I find details like these skipped. Microsoft Paint is just… the anti-Vista. Why not just license PhotoFiltre or the fresh-out-of-beta Paint.NET? Let’s just see what gets patched when Vista’s first service pack hits the streets later this year.a

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Paint.NET: Free Image Editor for Windows That’s Great for Bloggers - from The Zero Boss by Jay Andrew Allen

January 26th, 2007
at 10:17pm

[...] Chris Pirillo’s blog turned me on to Paint.NET, a free Windows application for basic image editing. This fast, easy to use app will replace the slow-*** GIMP as my new image editor for blogging. It supports basic editing operations (crop, resize, flip, rotate, drawing, etc.), layers, light and color adjustments, and a small but important roster of effects. Most of the commands have sensible key mnemonics. This is one of the best free applications for Windows that I’ve used in a long while. Pirillo thinks Microsoft should license it as their MS Paint replacement. Hopefully someone in the company is listening. [...]

Clarkezone: James Clarke's Weblog

January 28th, 2007
at 9:18pm

Paint.NET is a simply awesome free bitmap editor written in managed code. v3.0 just came out. If only this would replace the embarrassingly bad mspaint.exe that is still present in Vista. Chris Pirillo is not wrong. Add Comment [0] Comment RSS Permalink Trackback

BJ Wanlund

January 29th, 2007
at 9:39am

Oh God… :eyeroll:

Microsoft: Making Everybody’s Lives Hell

MS Paint was ALWAYS a beeyotch and one half to use properly…

Why, oh why couldn’t they have licensed Paint Shop Pro or something…

BJ

jccalhoun

January 29th, 2007
at 6:11pm

Since Vista is going to be out any minute now, how about an update on that list of Vista UI inconsistencies you posted way back when? Did they actually get fixed or are they still there?

papavb

January 29th, 2007
at 8:00pm

paint is a disgrace, so is wordpad.

didn’t jim tell scoble that they would be refreshed as well as add some new handy apps (see snipping tool, only one I remember).

they seriously updated the icons in the toolbar and moved the color picker to the top.

wow

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February 10th, 2007
at 1:44pm

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March 5th, 2007
at 10:08pm

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Amanda

May 22nd, 2007
at 8:54pm

I hate Windows Vista. It has screwed up all my school projects and my iTunes won’t always work. DON’T get this until it comes mainstream.

Windows Vista Torrent

October 10th, 2007
at 1:08pm

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ally

September 7th, 2008
at 5:38pm

I hate windows vista..these photo layering files sucks beyond belief!!!

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