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Is my teacher right about Paint?

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I was on my art class (I don't know if it's "Art class", but is everything related to graphics), and now we need to do a little magazine (we are working on the computers)

anyway, when I opened paint (windows paint, not paint.net) to start the work, my teacher said "Paint doesn't work, use Corel" (Corel Draw, a Photoshop like program) Then I said "But, it works", but she makes me open that program.
After that, I spend the whole class making a rail-road with some flowers in paint, after I finished, I asked my classmates if my work was ok, everyone said yes, but when my teacher saw it she just said "Paint just work to make little things" (in fact she used another word, a mix between little and idiotic)

To the skinners of US.
Is my teacher right?
(I can upload later my work, but it's on my school computer now)

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bezmolvie
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Pretty much, yes. Paint is the notepad of computer art tools. Not too good for formatted work, not too good for coding. If you have anything else, use it. It will make better work in a smaller amount of time.

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You'd better use another program yea. The advantages of paint are:

- Easy
- Fast
- To the point

but you can't make big images, first because it doesn't fit the screen

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The only thing I use paint for is to save screenshots. Or perhaps to mark something with a rectangle around it. For everything else, almost every other painting tool is better.

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Of course she's right, she also probably facepalmed when you weren't looking.

You can't use mspaint for drawing vectorial and scalable graphics such as the ones you're likely to use on a magazine cover.
No advanced image-scaling algorithms, very limited tools, annoying color picker, zero blending options... Your ass is gonna hurt if you ever try to draw a decent project (more than 100x100 pixels).

Inkscape, The GIMP, Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw, are all programs that can (in a way or another) work with vector-like images and some of them are free.
Chose the one that suits you the best.

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Nem
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mspaint...nice thing, but there is alot of better gfx editor, like Paint.NET for example.
But its possible to make some 'not little' in paint

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I have never used Corel, but I'm pretty sure that it's better than paint in just about anything.

Even for small things I wouldn't use paint, what comes out is usually far from anything I'd expected.

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Unless you can't work as good as this in mspaint then I suggest using that Corel Draw or even the GIMP. Unless you want to pay to use Adobe Photoshop (CS5 or higher).

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user Alistaire has written
[...] - Easy
- Fast
- To the point [...]

Exactly.

user Alistaire has written
[...] but you can't make big images, first because it doesn't fit the screen

You can, as user KimKat already said:
IMG:https://www.retrievercommunications.com/images/stories/youtube_icon.png
amazing ms paint skills


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user medeiros has written
Want Paint skills to the limit?
Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2sPl_Z7ZU

Holy!

And btw, user Unknown_Soldier, can you show us the railway? :p

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you can paint great stuff even with crap when you have the required skill.

however there is no doubt that paint is just a super primitive tool. it's good for quick simple tasks* but certainly not the tool of choice when it comes to more "professional" stuff. it's simply too limited. it does not even support very basic things like layers.

*) ... but they totally fucked up the win 7 version. they totally changed the work flow just to add some new stupid features.

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Ok, I got the point, I should start learning how to use Corel Draw, anyway, I am not in a Fine arts high school like 0A, I am on a regular High school. I said "Art class" because I don't know the real name of the class there (I am Argentinean), so I don't think she is expecting a very professional work

and user Mechanolith I have my work in the school, but anyway, you will think it's bad.
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