JSPaint

A web-based MSPaint remake and more...

The goal is to completely remake paint (including its little-known features), improve on it, and to extend the types of images it can edit.

Current improvements include:

• Unlimited undos/redos (as opposed to a measly three)
• Create an animated GIF from the current undo history with Ctrl+Shift+G
• Cross-platform, I guess

A lot of stuff isn't done yet.

Staying True to the Original

Ah yes, good old paint. Not the one with the ribbons or the new one with the interface that can take up nearly half the screen.

Windows 95, 98, and XP were the golden years of paint. You had a tool box and a color box, a foreground color and a background color, and that was all you needed. (including all the tools, of course :3 )

Things were simple.

But now we need transparency. And we need to undo more than three actions.

So that's why I'm making jspaint. I want to bring good old paint into the modern era Also, it's totally retro. There might be themes later.

Extended Editing

I want to make jspaint to be able to edit... (in the future...)

• Transparent PNGs (the main thing that's lacking in mspaint xp)
• Animated GIFs (yes, that entails a fully featured (but simple) animation editor)
• Animated and Transparent APNGs
• Multisize Icons (.ico and .icns)
• Scalable Vector Graphics (just kidding) (actually it can already open SVGs and knows not to save over them)
• Text Files (seriously really just kidding I promise*)

Did you know?

• Tips and Tricks from this tutorial that work in mspaint, and work in jspaint if they have a ✓
  • Brush Scaling ✓ (in jspaint you don't need to hold Ctrl)
  • "Custom Brushes" ✓
  • "The 'Stamp' Tool"
  • Image Scaling (Ctrl+Plus and Ctrl+Minus on the Numpad to scale the selection by factors of 2)
  • Color Replacement (see Tools)
  • The Grid (Ctrl+G + zoom6x+)
  • Quick Undo ✓ (I also made it redoable, in case you do it by accident)
  • Scroll Wheel draws line down and to the right (hmm, let's maybe not recreate this?)