RIP, Microsoft Paint.MS Paint, the first app you used for editing images, will probably be killed off in future updates of Windows 1. Microsoft Expression Web 2 Trial . Paint 3. D. Microsoft lists the 3.Windows 1. 0’s next autumn update, a little X marking the end of an era. The app is certainly a relic, from a time when the casual computer user couldn’t crack open Photoshop or Skitch or Pixelmator or thousands of web apps. MS Paint can’t save image components as layers or vectors; it’s for making flat static images only. It doesn’t smooth lines or guess at your best intentions. Want Windows 8 running on your Mac, but don’t know where to start? That’s understandable: there are a lot of options out there, and it can get overwhelming.![]() ![]() It does what you tell it and nothing more, faithfully representing the herky- jerky motion of drawing freehand with a computer mouse. It’s from a time before touch, a time before trackpads. As early as Mac OS X v10.5 build 9A466 the community has maintained a version of Leopard that can run on non-Apple hardware. A hacker by the handle of BrazilMac. There’s all manner of hand-wringing about the state of sex and relationships in the smartphone era—Online dating is ruining romance! And my god, the sexting! ![]() As more sophisticated options appeared, Paint’s janky aesthetic became a conscious choice. Paint” became the metonym for that aesthetic, even if an image was actually created in another app. TV Tropes lists major limitations that came to define a certain look: the wobbly freehand lines, awkward color handling, and inappropriate export settings that give Paint its distinctive look. In 2. 01. 4, Gawker’s Sam Biddle noted Paint’s influence on conspiracy theory images, calling the form “Chart Brut.” In amateur detectives’ attempts at identifying the Boston Marathon bombers, the simplicity and jaggedness of Paint evokes the “crazy wall” aesthetic of red string and scribbled notes, apparently without irony. The same year, internet historian Patrick Davison explored Paint’s influence on the last decade of meme culture, particularly Rage Comics. The outsider- art aesthetic feels appropriate to the relatable everyday content, and makes the art form unthreatening. Of course, Paint offered a few features to smooth things out, like the circle and line tools and the “fill” tool, all used in the stoner comics of the early 1. Crucially, those circles still had jagged curves. The bright colors of stoner comics are flat, as MS Paint didn’t support gradients (without an elaborate hack). Contrast those pixellated lines with the slick, stylish face from this art tutorial: This slickness is built into Paint’s successor, Paint 3. D. From the moment you start sketching, Paint 3. D smooths out your art. It also supports automatic selection tools and content- aware fill to rival Photoshop’s.)By automatically improving art, Paint 3. D hides the process behind the image. Paint’s sloppiness is probably why rage comics got so popular. Looking at a rage comic, you can tell exactly how it was drawn, and how you might draw one yourself. By delivering exactly what the artist draws, MS Paint forms an image that the viewer can mentally reverse- engineer and imitate. Unless you go absolutely nuts with it. Reddit user Toweringhorizon painstakingly assembled the drawing “To a Little Radio” using MS Paint tools like the oil brush, stretching the medium while maintaining a pixelated look. It’s one of the top submissions to MS Paint subreddit, a beautiful collaborative art gallery. Scrolling through this art feels like flipping through the sketchbook of the most artistic kid in high school. There’s an accepted roughness, a desired minimalism. For example, the exquisite raindrops in the work above are reflected in a flat, featureless tabletop. Like a transistor radio, Paint might be showing its age, but this tenacious little gadget should not be underestimated.“To a Little Radio” doesn’t even come close to testing Paint’s limits. As we say goodbye to the app that shaped an era, let us watch this bizarrely soundtracked time lapse of drawing Santa Claus in MS Paint on Windows 7 over the course of 5. We can only believe this is real because faking it would be even harder. How to Have a Better Sex Life, With "Sex Right Now"'s Cleo Stiller. There’s all manner of hand- wringing about the state of sex and relationships in the smartphone era—Online dating is ruining romance! And my god, the sexting! To sift through the hype and garner some no- nonsense wisdom on maintaining a healthy sex life in a hyper- connected- but- over- stimulated world, we talked to Cleo Stiller, host of “Sex Right Now” on Fusion TV, and Sari Cooper, CST Director and Founder of the Center for Love and Sex, for advice on “keeping the flame alive” without feeling corny, using tech to improve your sexual communication skills, and more. Oh, and we also cornered New Yorkers on the street for their best sex and dating advice. Listen to The Upgrade above or find us in all the usual places where podcasts are served, including Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, i. Heart. Radio, Stitcher, and NPR One. Please subscribe, rate, and review! Questions We Answered in This Episode: Should you schedule sex? Is it a good idea to have your partner help track your menstrual cycle? What happens when you take your phone to bed with you? What is a “Fitbit for your penis”? How to use apps to ease day- to- day friction in your relationships. Is porn throwing off our sexual expectations? Teledildonics. Yup. Our Upgrades of the Week. Every week we like to let you in on the upgrades we’ve made in our own lives. This week our upgrades include daily push- ups, cutting out afternoon caffeine, investing in a high- tech scale. Want to Submit a Question? There are two ways to send in your question: Call (3. We love calls! We might just play yours on the show! Email your question to upgrade@lifehacker. Please keep your questions and comments as brief as possible. This means about 3- 5 sentences for emails and 3. We look forward to hearing from you!
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