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MS Paint replacement? - PaulNaude01 - 11-10-2018
I am a long time Gimp user
(can't remember how long - I was even a few versions behind I found out 
) and use it almost daily too, but what I also use even more often, to quickly annotate a screen grab when supporting customers with a "click 'this' button" image, I open MS Paint. The reason? It opens in a flash (probably because it have almost no functionality) and I can quickly add an arrow or encircle a button.For serious stuff, I obviously open GIMP and don't care to wait for it to open, but for these stupid little things, GIMP simply takes too long to open and I can't quickly draw a circle, rectangle or arrow pointer. Granted, I could do this in Outlook or Word too, but then you are almost guaranteed that the arrow or circle will end up somewhere else. So I simply screen grab, open MS Paint (it opens faster than I can type this), add my arrow or whatever, copy and paste into my email and send.
BUT, Microsoft has revealed that they will stop providing MS Paint some time soon
with a next version of Windows or something, and left me wondering if this would not be the ideal opportunity for the GIMP community to produce a GIMP light, that opens in a flash, with the bare minimum tools (but with added annotation options like arrows, lines, circles etc. and basic colour, thickness etc. options like MS Paint), and then, should you need more, you simply click a button to open the full power of GIMP. 
This may be a nice way to grow the community and get even more people familiar with GIMP and drawn into the deep side.
The best response would obviously be for someone to tell me there is such a version that I just did not know about!
Regards
RE: MS Paint replacement? - rich2005 - 11-10-2018
Face the facts, Gimp is now a monster application, 500 MB-ish of files in Windows.
You can of course have Gimp open all the time and use it to create the screenshot to edit. File -> Create -> Screenshot Give it a delay, minimise Gimp and it opens straight up in Gimp ready for editing. All in one screenshots: https://i.imgur.com/GKkyDT5.jpg
Still not the best application: As far as Windows freeware goes, you could try
Photofiltre: http://www.photofiltre-studio.com/pf7-en.htm Well established, it is a bit quirky, so there is a learning curve but it draws arrows, boxes text etc. https://i.imgur.com/bK3qRKh.jpg
snipaste : very modern utility : https://www.snipaste.com/ don't really know this one but looks like this: https://i.imgur.com/rcHgYDW.jpg
Both of those can run as portable applications, unzip and start. A good place to look for utilities old and new is http://www.portablefreeware.com
RE: MS Paint replacement? - PaulNaude01 - 11-11-2018
Thanks so much! snipaste is the coolest little program ever - its my new best software friend (after GIMP offcourse).
