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  1. Memory optimizations

    Memory usage should really be optimized. Adding a setting to limit
    the undo histrory would be good. Using 3GB of ram is not a good thing after only 5 minutes of use

    17 votes
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    • Selection union/substract

      At least for rectangular selections, but fine for all kinds of selections:
      This should be a call also a multiselect... when some selection is already made, when holding, say, Ctrl and making another selection, the previous one is not discarded but now should be selected both regions - union of them. This should work for both overlapping and not-overlapping regions. Similarly, when holding, say, Shift+Ctrl, previous selection should be partially bitten - substracted... This features are well known from gimp and other tools

      13 votes
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      • More than one image open, and viewable, at the same time.

        I like working with multiple images and not having to tab between them.

        With a Windows system, I use Paint Shop Pro (versions 8 and 12) for most of my graphics. Newer versions of PSP have become unusable for the way I work, and I desperately want, and need, a new program to take its place.

        From what I have seen so far, Paint.NET (for Windows) and Pinta (For Linux) are my best hopes.

        GIMP is okay, but I am not fond of their limitation of one-color-at-a-time. I feel handicapped with GIMP.

        MACJR

        9 votes
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        • Use Gimp or Photoshop brushes

          For me, if Pinta could use gimp or photoshop brushes it would become a real powerful tool.

          9 votes
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          • Add some feature from GraphicsGale

            include features from GraphicsGale like 'custom grid size', 'snap to grid', add dithering for pencil tool, add connect line and curve line, flip horizontal for the magic wand icon, change the arrow cursor with icon for the tool that have no icon like pencil, eraser, etc.

            8 votes
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            • Smudge tool

              As a digital artist I'd love to see this feature implemented. This single tool would make a major difference to the type of art that can be created with Pinta. Even just a basic one with basic parameters could make it's graphic capabilites more versatile.

              8 votes
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              • Add opacity to eraser

                Just add a field to the erase toolbar. I guess the title is enough explicit :)

                8 votes
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                • paste in zoomed area

                  When copying and pasting, it defaults the pasted selection to the top-left of the screen. This is annoying if you are zoomed in, you must zoom out, and then drag to where it needs to be, and then zoom back in to get it precise. It would be nice if the pasted selection goes to the top-right of whatever your zoomed view is, like in paint.

                  7 votes
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                  • Resize canvas by polling edges

                    MS-Paint nice feature is a resize canvas by polling edges of canvas. More about this idea: https://bugs.launchpad.net/pinta/+bug/690602

                    6 votes
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                    • Set white background when moving, cutting, erasing etc

                      When Rectangle Select is used and Cut is executed the transparent background appears. I would like to have white background in 99% of time.

                      The same problem Rectangle Select and Move Selected Pixcels - background becomes transparent, I need white background.

                      The same problem with Eraser. When erasing some part of the picture I would like to have a white background, not transparent.

                      Default white background is by default in MS-Paint, Gimp etc. I think most of the non-expert-image-editing-users expect white background, so I think white background should be default selection.

                      I don't know how to implement this - some…

                      6 votes
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                      • one history for each layer

                        That is: one history for each image layer, one indepdent of all

                        6 votes
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                        • give an error when GTK ins'nt installed under Windows

                          Please give an error like "GTK is not found on the system".

                          6 votes
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                          • fuzzy border

                            It would be great to have adjustable fuzzy border effect like in Gimp.

                            6 votes
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                            • Content-Aware Fill

                              Like in Photoshop / InPaint / Gimp Plugin Resynthesizer remove selections easily

                              5 votes
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                              • i will try pinta if it haves an official portable version which is up to date. i hope it can .psd

                                i real porable mod which saves all temporary files (if where are tem files) on the stick and dont needs to change something in the registry or needs extra programs to work. and compatiblity with photoshop is importend for me.
                                i didnt tryed it now but im using paint net since longer time (ant it didnt haves an portable version).

                                4 votes
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                                • Forum?

                                  ლ(ಠ益ಠლ) Y U NO HAVE A FORUM?

                                  4 votes
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                                  • Tab switching

                                    Would be great to find out Tab Switching function.

                                    4 votes
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                                    • Add a scrollbar to the font list

                                      Makes font browsing easier when there are a lot

                                      4 votes
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                                      • Please Make A PBI package for PCBSD :)

                                        I use PCBSD which is an easy to use BSD OS for home users and it would be wonderful to have Pinta available for it. PCBSD uses the PBI (push button install) package to install applications. There are instructions on how to create PBIs at their website. PCBSD has a linux compatibility layer so many linux applications should compile and work, however being an average user, I'd prefer a binary package. Pinta sounds like an awesome program, I really hope it becomes available for more OS, so that anyone can enjoy it.

                                        4 votes
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                                        • Faenza and Faience icons

                                          Wonderfull program.

                                          Could you please provide faenza and faience icons.

                                          Thanks.

                                          4 votes
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