Open Source Alternative for MS Paint

I have still not downloaded and tested it yet but on deviantART I was asked by an artist to count her colours on a certain piece of work.....it turned out to be in the thousands. Cut a very long story short we finally worked out she was using Paint.net and the eraser tool was not fully erasing the colours but leaving reduced opacities behind which was the cause of the enormous colour count...so any one who tries it please test this first...no point in ruining your pixelart.

I wouldn't have noticed.  I pixel with a tablet using the pencil tool only.  line tool is overrated anyway

I've done all my professional works on MSpaint and I always tell the people who hire me I use photoshop haha, I guess i just got so used to it I wouldn't change it. Anyways I think I'll try this program see who it works. :)

I totally agree with jamon. for pixeling, MTPaint is much better. considering is designed specifically for pixelart ;D

For me most important thing with pixeling is pallete manipulation... MSpaint don't even have a shorcut for pipete!!! for me wery frustating.
If you don't want to pay for Promotion best pixeliing app around for PC platform (my opinion) you can try this...

http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/   (MTpaint) much better than MSpaint and lot of features... and free
(i'm searching for men that will compile this for OSX - so if you know someone  HELP!)

On OSX (my platform =) pixen is nice solution but pallete editing suxx!  so right now i play with AMIGA emulator and Brilliance, Dpaint =)

The only reason, I think, that I stuck to MSPaint rather than Graphics Gale was the fact you can use the right-click button to colour as well.. and this has that feature... :o

I think its cool how we all have different preferences.

It's weird that nobody know kolourpaint :( Of course paint.net its a very cool program, but I prefer Gimp...

I will never understand how people can work with MSPaint - coming from the DPaint Amiga background - MSPaint didn't even come up as an alternative. I tried Paint.net and can't really see an advantage over the tools I am using at the moment but it surely is way better than MSPaint.

im sticking to IDraw + Photoshop for myself, but for someone who just wants a nicer version of paint it's cool

ms paint is so simple and nice.

Even if I could buy every program on the net, i'd still use this over anything.

I myself probably wont shift to this.  my workflow lies within photoshop and promotion.  This is more geared to people who cant afford anything more than MS Paint.  This tool gives them all of the things they need that MS Paint lacks.  Things like... SHORTCUTS(!) and LAYERS(!)

I, having been an MS Paint user at the beginning, would be drooling over this program.

"the issue that it opnly works under Win XP service pack 2"
where did you read that?  I know it supports vista and probably other windows OS as well

I've tried it briefly, and it never really struck me as a pixelling program. Perhaps somewhere in between MSPaint and Photoshop.

Its great for photoshopping, but for painting pixels, I just cant get used to the shortcuts..
I slowly get more used to graphicsgale, so I guess ill keep using that in combination with mspaint.

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/8217/bunniwn1.png
did this to test it, may have to color it

I'll give it a try, but I doubt it's any better than GraphicsGale :3

Its like photoshop for pixels!! Its great. I may actually make the big switch.

the issue that it opnly works under Win XP service pack 2, plus the requirement of downloading .NET framworks... don't know... but still works as an exeoent alternative for those who does not want to/can't afford some money into Photoshop or PSP.

After a quick mess-about, it seems to be very promising; I'll have to make a few things in it first before I disband MSPaint though..

Ill give it a try.

Very nice find...