History of Microsoft Paint 1985-2017: An LGR Retrospective

As of July 2017, Microsoft is halting development on the venerable MS Paint. What better time to take a look back at the history and legacy of Paint, Windows 3.1 Paintbrush, and ZSoft PC Paintbrush!
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[@LGR]

If you're still confused about what Microsoft is doing with Paint: _it is not being removed from Windows, yet._ Development was halted in favor of Paint 3D, original Paint is no longer considered a core part of Windows for the future, original Paint will be on the Windows Store later on but will not be updated or supported.

[@roadrunner9840]

just like mediacenter 😢

[@Saghetti]

got it :)

[@deluxesalt]

Lazy Game Reviews Fantastic explanation. It's really in that grey area.

[@xeonthemechdragon]

Lazy Game Reviews lol

[@Zizzily]

Yay, now I can finish the video. I never saw anything wrong with the video, though.

[@honkhonkler7732]

Everyone's up in arms about Paint, but I'm still getting over the loss of 3D Pinball.

[@autistic_kaiser]

Yeah me too

[@moyokean]

I forgot all about that but now I want to cry :,(

[@MarcKloos]

Or Othello, which was bundle with Windows up to version 3 (or was it only 2.0?)

[@SummonerArthur]

Marcus Cook I still have it on a thumb drive so I can play it on any computer...

[@justnoddy8856]

4D Pinball is coming up on next year ;)

[@kluna]

who else when bored made a bunch of overlapping circles and colored every section differently?

[@creepiloawe5093]

kluna I did

[@sali-ali]

Haha and I was thinking it's only me doing this :)

[@ActualCharky]

I actually had an art magazine as a kid which showed you how to overlay a black sky on that, to make an image of space + planets :)

[@user-po6hn9id1t]

Me too

[@retrogameplus3838]

It was our fidgetspinner.exe

[@travosk216]

I remember being 5 years old, we lived in the countryside so we had no internet, no gaming consols, just that one old computer my father bought ages ago, and every day i would turn it on go on paint a draw stuff. That was the only form of tech i had access to. But the best part was when i moved to the city and saw the newly released windows vista, that thing looked so good i couldn't even believe such a thing was even possible (i was so used to windows 95 and it's green background) and video games!! oh man. It was like seeing all the things i saw on TV in real life. I hope i didn't wast your time

[@dialupdave6276]

sad you had to see windows vista insted of xp/7

[@Wabeeninc]

@@dialupdave6276 be happy he saw something that wasn't 8

[@avery1529]

@@Wabeeninc yeah...

[@HuNt3R47]

My first pc was a hand me down from my grandfather it was Windows 2.0

[@abettersideofme9908]

My Grandpa used to print my drawings on Paint and hang them up in his office. I completely forgot about that until this moment.

[@theLuigiFan0007Productions]

That's cool! Did it end up a wall of pages? o:

[@LucasCunhaRocha]

nice, how many of those were dongs?

[@leetorry]

Awww, thats cute

[@laurenf.7922]

2 types of people in this world

[@LiteralmenteUmaMulher]

@@LucasCunhaRocha ÉÉÉÉ DO BRASILLL

[@cooperbeats9620]

Can we please just give him some props for how much research and how professional his videos are ?

[@LGR]

I appreciate it!

[@GuardianTam]

SuperCooperGaming Well I've got a giant fake dinosaur head if that helps.

[@HistoricaHungarica]

He can have my sword, my bow and my axe!

[@MUMSUniverse]

I can loan my miniature detailed Titanic with limited addition iceberg maker. #itsprettycool

[@cooperbeats9620]

Lazy Game Reviews I appreciate your quality content, keep it up!

[@jippalippa]

Open Paint for windows 95 Do a bunch of random scribbles Use the fill tool to colour the shapes. MIND BLOWN! Loved doing that around 1997-98

[@RussellTeapot]

ahahahah YESSSS, I remember starting with a solid fill rectangle, then use the free hand selection tool (or whatever what's called) and move the selection, with a different background colour.. noice

[@Nugcon]

It's modern art.

[@milkydanny8316]

truth is, if a "modern art" artist'll do that, it would cost millions.

[@refraggedbean]

"Sometimes you just want to draw a big dong in the sky" -LGR 2017

[@Comettfm]

*Slowly claps*

[@MatthewHolevinski]

Moar LGR Dong Art Pleeeeze

[@OfficialRainsynth]

Because there's no better feeling, than drawing a big dong in the sky...

[@summerlaverdure]

Large Genital Reproduction

[@QJ89]

"Is that a phallic spaceship over the city?"

[@pushinguproses]

I still use paint all the time for very basic image editing. Really great to see older iterations of Paint; my first experience with it was with Windows 3.1. Didn't have the internet or a lot of games so I would open up Paintbrush and draw crappy things with my mouse. Even as an adult I like seeing what kind of art I can come up with using the program. Thanks for the great coverage on something so nostalgic.

[@OSW]

I don't think many people notice it, but the amount of footage presented here (emulated I imagine?) of old programs running is really impressive! Showing what it's like to doodle on every version and competitor, such a quick turnaround making this video too. It's really very cool. Well done!

[@CommodoreFan64]

Na man Clint has actual period correct hardware to run all these versions of paint on, along with with ways to capture it all into a modern computer, and rarely if ever uses emulation, or something like VMware. Hell he even did video on the first optical mouse that needs the special mouse pad to make it work correctly.

[@retrobitsmx]

I think you don't know very well this channel, mate.

[@OSW]

Can you capture HD footage from the original computers? I know Clint has a ton of 'em but I dunno how you would, emulators would be so much easier. We know he puts a ton of effort into his videos but it's worth mentioning we notice and it's awesome :)

[@armanelgtron4533]

A VGA capture card is really all you'd need for "HD" footage of a more modern computer.

[@call_me_mad1236]

“I dont think many people will notice it” How would anyone not notice..Its the entirety of this video and the majority of the channel lmao

[@acearchives6138]

I will never forget how I started as a digital artist. When I was twelve, I didn't know about free paint software that was better than MS Paint. I always envied those on KZbin who had better programs than me, and I always blamed that for my lack of talent back in the day. I then slowly started to figure paint out more though, learning the tricks like make your tools bigger with the mouse, and as well as the copy clean trick. It seems like it was only yesterday when I found out that you could basically create layers by copying and pasting the image with the dominant color in the background. I also was mind blown when I found the invert to monocrome trick. It's going to be sad to see it go, seeing as I learned from my two years I spent drawing with the program. I learned that the tools do not make you the artist. You make you the artist. :)

[@hjrdder7509]

Very true! I first drew with Photoshop and a tablet, but now I'll draw with Paint and a mouse because it's fun!

[@DivineTerrors]

Ace The Artist I started with Ms paint too! But I figured out some stuff from speedpaints so im really good at it now! But I do use paint tool sai more now

[@acearchives6138]

Naomi Hasunuma Try GIMP 2.8 or Fire Alpaca. Both are free and easy to learn.

[@bruhmamba5697]

Naomi Hasunuma Google firealpaca

[@acearchives6138]

AstroMoo2 I understand that, I just wanted to talk about my experience with M.S Paint.

[@thomasg86]

Man, those videos from Paintbrush in 3.1... so nostalgic! Played with that so much as a kid.

[@thomasgraf1986]

Oh just all sorts of things. I remember making stories with multiple BMPs like pages of a book. Actually used all of our hard drive space at one point, most of it being BMPs, haha.

[@hika5251]

I remember drawing dicks.

[@MarkyShaw]

FUCK this is my primary graphic design tool.

[@Trashboat4444]

Mark Shaw original paint will be on windows store but will not be supported or updated

[@joshhill3691]

Mark Shaw along with movie maker for video editing?

[@MarkyShaw]

Haha, I admit I used that at one point in time. It was easy! I do like my Premiere now though :-) What they oughta do is bring back the Macro Recorder!

[@joshhill3691]

Advection357 guess what...

[@MARI0LAND]

But if I understood the video correctly, you can still use it with future Windows versions, you only have to download it. So don't stop believing!

[@StinkyBlack1]

most people would be shocked at how powerful mspaint actually is. it can do alot.

[@robokill387]

Advection357 problem is Photoshop is quite heavy and slow to load, making it frustrating if all you're doing is basically tasks.

[@RAFMnBgaming]

So long as it doesn't need to be transparent. *sigh*. It's why i spent my early years drawing things in the game maker sprite creator which does support that.

[@Morgan02]

Did you see that picture one guy drew of the realistic Santa looked fucking awesome

[@NazmusLabs]

HASEnoncorperated MS paint used to support transparency. That feature was removed with the Windows 7 update, I believe.

[@rtsa4633]

Photoshop is made for pros. MS Paint is made for fun and simplicity. It isn't trying to compete with anything. Its just an application you expect to be on a Windows machine.

[@ashknoecklein]

I did a degree in Latin and Greek, and "wildly complex things with arbitrarily limited resources...but then again sometimes you just want to draw a big dong in the sky" is basically how I would describe archaic lyric poetry. Probably lots of art tbh.

[@gymnasiast90]

weehawk That brings back fun memories of high school, especially Catullus, who alternated between tender declarations of love and telling people he would fuck them in their mouths, while sticking to the rules of the hexameter. 😀

[@jesuszamora6949]

So Paint is being replaced by a 3D successor. I don't see the issue, so long as Paint 3D still has 2D capability, MS is right to assume the two programs would be redundant.

[@MrJoeyWheeler]

They could have avoided the issue if they just called it "MS Paint +3D" or something. So people would recognise it as being the same thing. I mean the MS Paint on my PC is definitely not the same MS Paint we had a decade ago, but it's just treated as the same program.

[@photonicpizza1466]

Yup, Paint 3D is just Paint with a bit of a different interface, better stylus support and 3D modelling capabilities.

[@jesuszamora6949]

True enough. They gave enough room for media to sensationalize it, and boy did the media sensationalize it!

[@BeachBaller]

Its been around for about a year now

[@thelegendaryklobb2879]

Let the boy grow

[@Bucketus.Lord.of.Buckets]

Was not aware of paint 3D until you showed it. Gonna download it asap. Thanks. Also dat woodgrain model. Never change

[@serentique]

You don't download it. It comes free with windows 10 or sumfjn

[@JennyverseLive]

"The History of Microsoft Pain"...oh wait, PAINT. I did wonder why this video was only seven minutes long.

[@britisheas1273]

GameplayJenny burn.

[@JohnSmith-xq1pz]

GameplayJenny windows 95 flashbacks?, or Vista? No maybe windows 8? lol

[@BurnRoddy]

The great thing about Paint is its simplicity. I used to doodle a lot with it back when I was a kid. Eventually I found out just how useful it is to count pixels and transport Paint's creations in a preciese manner to the phisical world and even now when I need grilled papper to make a graphic by hand and still use it for that. Simpler things share a link with our own limitations so they are rarely not useful in MULTIPLE ways and Ms. Paint was a prime example of it.

[@kazztawdal]

Using 3.1's Paintbrush as a kid made me suddenly realize that computers could do anything.

[@himbeerme]

I used to draw stuff in Paint on my mums old Windows 95 laptop and then print it with a Laserjet 4p. Later on I had a Windows Vista (great OS xD) laptop and my grandpa bought me a Wacom Bamboo drawing tablet (one of the older generations, was a really cheap deal at Hofer (Aldi)) and then I drew stuff for greeting cards, also in Paint. I'll miss MS Paint :/

[@LMacNeill]

I use Paint *constantly* . It is my go-to program to crop and annotate screenshots in Windows. Thank you for clarifying its status. And the MacPaint program that it was based on was dumped by Apple *years* ago. Which is ridiculous!! You have to go to a 3rd party on a damn Macintosh to get the program that it was *known for* back in the ‘80s! Ridiculous!!

[@AspirationHD]

Microsoft Paint is now joining Outlook Express and Windows Movie Maker. The list of programmes Microsoft is killing now is a bit alarming. Everything looks like it is heading for the cloud.

[@AspirationHD]

You could be right.

[@kyleraccoon6195]

I hate the the cloud... I don't want to have to rely on the internet anymore than i do already

[@user-tt6ct4ii8t]

Next up: Microsoft is removing explorer.exe! Just to scam everyboddy, and go back to MSDOS,.

[@DivineTerrors]

Aspiration what?? Not movie maker!! That's all I have to make videos! :,0

[@MrBLARG85]

.. you mean heaven.

[@ooglefluffg857]

When I was six or seven, I would take the largest square brush on Windows 95 and spend hours making a checkerboard pattern across the whole page. In hindsight, it was pretty obvious I had autism :P

[@FinestCitizen]

I remember when I introduced the Paint program to my cousin. He thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Even though we had the Internet at the time, the guy was glued to Paint. I don't know what it is that sucks people in. The pretty colors I guess? LOL!

[@kinamiya1]

FinestCitizen simplicity can make great things

[@ham.burger.]

lmaooo me

[@lukky6648]

Googlefluff857 my friends did this all the time but I was never interested to do it myself

[@JUSXTREME96]

I STILL use the version of paint from Windows 2000.

[@BentigiriIsCewl]

I'm going to miss mspaint Back in around 4th grade I drew a fan art if this game. The game was one out of about 1000 in a collection, like one of those 1000 in 1 apps. The game was the chicken crossing the road. I remember being very proud of it, I sorta "mastered" ms paint back in that time, I was very "good at using the mouse" But recently ive drawn on a samsung tablet and I lost all of my "skills" that I had in 4th grade. Damn, so many drawings I had made! I wish I could see them again but the computer has been dead for over 4 years. Literally, and I can't remember my password for that old account so that "art" is forever lost...

[@lobstarooo]

Oh my god that shot near the end, that Windows logo. I've spent countless hours changing it, dicking around, adding colours. This was the cherry on the delicious nostalgia-filled cake that is this video. Superb stuff Clint.

[@martinkunev9911]

0:45 "I still find myself going back to paint" This just proves Photoshop is overcomplicated.

[@KentuckyRanger]

I love Paint! If it wasn't for it, I'd never use PrintScr... ;O)

[@GlitchGameplay]

Paint 3D looks nice, But can it paint Crysis?

[@acorgiwithacrown467]

Danny Blue easily :D

[@wazzzup2579]

But can it paint DOOM though o_O?

[@userchal2]

Visit my channel if you want to see good drawings in paint, thanks

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

No, but you can just about get the first couple of stages of Quake out of it.

[@GenreChowderStudios]

MS Paint was the first artistic software tool I ever used. I created characters with bios, comics, and so, so much more. It fueled my love of digital art. It was the perfect outlet for my creativity as a young artist. But more importantly, it taught me the basic software vocabulary and artistic tools, i.e. brushes, paint buckets, etc, I would use in my future artistic pursuits. Almost two decades later, I use Photoshop, have been paid for my art, and know enough about how to use my artistic software to channel my ideas into something viable and create work I'm really proud of. My art has to be one of the most important pieces of who I am, and being able to learn how to improve such an important piece of myself started with this very basic yet very fun little program. Thanks, Paint. I'll never forget you or those bitmap images I still have saved to a floppy. :) And thank YOU, Clint, for putting this great vid together. It's fascinating to see where this old friend came from and where it might be headed.

[@graedenius]

Thank you LGR for all the quality content. Every day I check to see if you have uploaded anything and I look forward to all of your next videos. Keep doing the great work and I hope you reach 1 million subscribers in the future. You where the one who got me into vintage computing. I also want to start a collection of classic computers, any suggestions on where to start and how to acquire such hardware? (Keep doing restoration videos, I like those)

[@LGR]

Thanks for the kind words! And other than thrift stores and local collectors, eBay really is your best bet these days.

[@axiom172]

Windows wasn't Mac inspired, it was Xerox inspired. And unlike Apple, they had actually paid their licensing fee to Xerox and didn't end up getting sued like Apple did. Microsoft only got sued by Apple because Jobs was literally insane, and Apple lost the case anyway.

[@LGR]

That's why I said "debatably." It's a really involved story with people on all sides, and that's outside the scope of this video.

[@TheAnig140895]

I think this story would make for a good retrospective

[@DrToonhattan]

Lazy Game Reviews Perhaps you could do an in-depth video on that one day?

[@MacGuy3135]

Do you understand the meaning of the word "debatably" we are mourning the passing of a legacy program here. Not shouting at companies we have something against. Throw me in a bin.

[@axiom172]

Except it's not debatable, it's historical fact, so your point is moot. I'll hold the lid open for you.

[@Mechaghostman2]

I hope Paint 3D will allow you to actually make 3D models instead of just import them. Otherwise I'll just stick to Blender and old versions of Paint.

[@OddBranch]

Mechaghostman2 you can "draw" basic 3D models but I don't recommend you to use Paint3D for professional 3D modelling.

[@Windsorsillest]

I Honestly love your Videos ❤️. Seriously, I love the retro style and your jokes dude!!

[@TheNostalgiaMall]

This is why LGR's videos are so awesome. I love hearing the history and backstory of stuff that I used as a kid on my first computer. I was introduced to "Paint" with the one bundled with Windows 95. Drew a lot of road maps with it.

[@LGR]

Thanks, man!

[@meromex]

It was gone, now it's back. MISTERY!

[@scottb9997]

a mystery that can only be solved by reading his explanation in the pinned comment but noone is ever gonna do that so I guess we will never know

[@scottb9997]

a mystery that can only be solved by reading his explanation in the pinned comment but noone is ever gonna do that so I guess we will never know

[@meromex]

Scott B jokes on you, I was 2nd comment before his pinned comment, but no one ever reads the age history.

[@scottb9997]

the history only tells me to the nearest hour and there is nothing I can do about that but its your fault you can't spell mystery

[@64jcl]

Not used MS Paint since I installed Paint.Net ages ago - a superior and free paint package with way more functionality, including layers.

[@969thewhip]

My first memory of Paint was in Middle School and our computer lab went from the Apple 2GS to Dells with windows 3.1 (I think). That's where I discovered that you could open more than one window at a time of the same program. So I kept clicking the paint icon and after about 15 paint windows, the PC locked up!

[@msachma]

This was really well done and remarkably accurate. Wow!

[@s3tTz]

This video is just an excuse for you to record yourself piss-farting about in Paint. Kudos. :D

[@LGR]

The secret's out!!

[@Murrlin27]

I love it!

[@SWAGCOWVIDEO]

And draw hairy Ds 3:45

[@tonyhong20]

end bringer True. We've already watched him assemble two Lego computers which took about an hour each

[@ADPRadio]

But everyone loves doing silly things in ms paint!

[@Lurker1979]

To be fair to Microsoft. There is also a lot of good freeware out there that does a good job.

[@Drew791]

Wonderfully concise retrospective on MS Paint! Thank you for the great video :)

[@0xis]

Great video as always, love your work....thanks

[@madpandahat]

Big dongs in the sky..

[@LeMeBucallion]

Robert Bee Sounds like a Pink Floyd song title.

[@adamm.1604]

Considering it is already 60 percent one of their song titles, that makes sense haha (great gig in the sky). Actually, I'm awarding an extra 15 percent (out of 20) for 'big' which is almost 'great' so 75 percent at least

[@RAFMnBgaming]

With Diamonds?

[@zekchard]

*_whomst'd've been drawing big diccs in the sky?_*

[@lukky6648]

Paint will never die admit it.

[@ShinyStarriNite]

Great video, I love how your videos are always consistent with quality :) Man, I'm really going to miss Paint.

[@LGR]

Thank you!

[@ShinyStarriNite]

You're welcome LGR! :)

[@mattedwards1547]

Clint, Great video (as always) :D

[@jacknicholson1288]

Is it bad I naturallly hissed at paint 3D?

[@infamousblackcoat]

Jack Nickolson No.

[@DivineTerrors]

Jack Nickolson nah I did too

[@rtsa4633]

Its basically just an evolution of paint. Think of it as the next generation of Pokemon where it is not Ash and Pikachu on their adventure but Ash and Raichu

[@kinamiya1]

I don’t care much if it gives me the same features of paint If i use or don’t the new featured i don’t care too much

[@mcomeslast]

Jack Nickolson I did as well.

[@Zakko64]

Strange to think there was a time where Microsoft Paint was going to be killed off.

[@chrisrobinson82]

Great stuff Clint. I'd be really interested to see your take on the history of Photoshop and how it's changed over the years. Thanks again

[@aapa6241]

Thanks for this video, it was enlightening and likable!

[@Daniel15au]

It's only being deprecated, no need to worry. The Win32 API still has API calls that were deprecated 20 years ago, so I wouldn't worry about it completely disappearing or no longer working. Even if Microsoft do remove it, it's likely the Windows 10 executable will continue working well into the future. Windows backwards compatibility is generally amazing. Windows 95 apps still run fine on Windows 10, and even some Windows 3.1 apps still run fine on Windows 10 if you have a 32-bit version of Windows (16-bit apps only run on 16- and 32-bit Windows, not 64-bit).

[@NerdsterStein]

I used to play on paint as a kid but I remembered just utterly hating it. I believe because it WAS too simple. I always hated things that were simple. Hell I can't even draw a stick figure, not because I can't draw no far from it. I just end up adding way to many details to it afterwards. When I had gotten my drawing tablet I tried using paint because at the time I still thought that Paint was the only art program in the entire world (I was a very sheltered kid XD) but man was it impossible to use the two together. I am very happy to have found Media bang. But that doesn't mean I don't catch my mom making incredible things on paint every now and then.

[@soogymoogi]

Seeing that Windows 95 Paint is such a blast from the past. I'm a freelance pixel artist nowadays but I first got started mushing Pokemon icons together on that very program. It had some nifty little tricks hidden in it, too - like using the eraser and second color to replace pixels of one hue with another - which made it really cool when you spoke with another young pixelartist and were able to share knowledge and tricks, either inherent to Paint itself or ways to get around its limitations. Sort of like a secret society. I'm also glad to know Paint lives on even if I've been using Graphicsgale for years now.

[@losalfajoresok]

This was a trip to memory lane! I started with Win 3.1 though but this mede me feel so nostalgic! Thanks Clint!

[@MegaAstroFan18]

Well, 4 years later and Windows 11 has ended up having both versions.

[@joshhill3691]

Who wants a video dedicated to the rainbow brush? 🌈

[@itsoktofart]

Yes!!!!

[@serentique]

Josh Hill on SC?

[@Warmest.Lavender]

Josh Hill me

[@fastertrackcreative]

Never heard of that one

[@kissesangel1996]

really enjoyed this video! I spent my childhood drawing landscapes on paint and didn't know it had such a background! the new paint looks awesome in its own right too, though

[@whatdidyouexpectyouidiot]

4:30 was my fave to use when i was little

[@Mace2.0]

Paint... I spent my 9, 10, and the rest of my school years on paint.

[@TickTockTimeTraveler]

Fascinating, thank you!

[@bobbymillionaire1825]

What a great video - thank you for your time and history of Paint - my avatar has been created in Paint. Cheers buddy!

[@steveelmy]

I can remember well, the first PC art program I used to use in school during the 80's was called "paint spa", it was bundled on RM Nimbus PC's before 1990; it used ega and was capable of not only painting and filling single colours but it also had a preset number of textures you could use such as bricks (made with red and yellow pixels), it was an awesome program for the time, doing more than even paintbrush did with windows.

[@Firevine]

Man, back in the day I used a not-Microsoft paint program that had some preloaded pictures, like a birthday card, a parrot, other stuff. I tried my best to make something look as good as those did, but of course since I was a kid, no luck. I wish I could remember what that program was now.

[@RussellTeapot]

Do you remember the year? It was a program running under Windows? Was it a freeware? I love hunting down forgotten software, it's really satisfying when some detail click in your brain and *BAM* you remember the name!

[@amnottabs]

Firevine Kid Pix maybe?

[@Firevine]

Russell Teapot Early 90's. Something I would have enjoyed before I became a big tough angsty middle schooler, haha. Probably 90-92. It MIGHT have been Kid Pix like this other fella mentioned, because that looks really familiar too, so I might have had both. Dad spent tons of money on PC's and software back then.

[@Firevine]

amnottabs Maybe...but Kid Pix definitely looks familiar, so I might have had two things. Thanks for the reminder!

[@pjousma]

Let's hope they don't come with a 3D Minesweeper next.

[@HeySlickThatsMe]

Tr7 VR MINESWEEPER

[@kidwolf0015]

I just want that good ole' pixel smiley face dude back. The newer versions of minesweeper just don't feel the same without him...

[@FloatingSunfish]

I still use old reliable Paint from time to time. Heck, I drew my profile pic in it over half a decade ago!

[@daytimeapple5726]

Love videos like this, super fun to watch

[@Josie.R]

Microsoft just needs to remake Paint. Simply modernize the UI. Keep tools, features, tricks; keep everything and keep everything where it is. But just make it look modern by remaking it in the new Neon design language

[@LustForKeyboards]

That's what Paint3D is.

[@Josie.R]

Lust For Keyboards No, they completely moved everything and removed a whole ton of features

[@OMA2k]

@@Josie.R : I didn't know Paint had "a ton of features" ;)

[@Sb129]

I wonder what was changed from the original video

[@LGR]

Minor rewording to the intro to make it clear that Paint is not being "killed" so much as replaced.

[@nasilemak868]

SbI29 dong added

[@FerintoshFarmsPhotography]

So many great memories growing up in the library room after being bored with Word and Math Rescue; I would throw on paint to just spray on millions of stars imagining each pixel was it's own star, swirling the different colour temperatures together in an ever growing array of endlessness.

[@MrJest2]

Back in the mid-90s, I worked for a small software company (that was later swallowed up by A Very Large Software Company). As we prepared to move to another office building, I was clearing out an old storage closet in my area. I stumbled across the exact early MS mouse shown at 2:35. The thing that tripped me out was the ball... it was made of steel!!!

[@bl8n2]

I still use MS paint from Win XP lol, was easy to use so I downloaded it

[@musclestudios6620]

Yes and I remembered using this paint when I was 10. We draw random stuff and making movies.

[@DiamondProAlpine]

Boonce XP Paint is my childhood

[@Tech101yt]

This aged like milk lol

[@stephaniec.8415]

this was really interesting, thanks for making this! (:

[@KairuHakubi]

I still remember using something like paint sometime around 1989-90 at this guy's house. He looked exacly like an 80s computer programmer, and I didnt realize I was helping playtest his homebrew programs. That would actually be by far the most advanced computer I would use for the next 6 years, school just had Apple IIs. I also remember discovering that ms paint could open corrupt image files! super useful when my crummy computer kept crashing during saving in another image program

[@rawkinghorse]

I'm not sure what the point of Paint 3D is. The average user doesn't know the first thing about 3D.

[@iloveg25]

The Mona Lisa was re made on paint! (also mario paint used to remake memorable songs)... ahh those times when the mouse wouldnt work and it meant its time to clean the crud off the rolls and ball XD

[@xoxolindsay]

My grandad has this hidden talent of creating lush nature landscapes in Microsoft Paint. Like highly detailed pixel art. They looked professional and elaborate and it was fascinating to watch him create such art using a simple computer program! (this was on an IBM PC back in the 90’s)

[@renaxakai3]

I still use Paint for any screenshots that I take. It opens so quick, and saves in the quality that I like, so it's perfect! I will never stop using it.

[@Scott-yf1zn]

Google paint is what i used to teach myself Arabic salami malayhim

[@yazeed699666]

but how? also that's not arabic.

[@Level-ts7xl]

why the fuck are people so upset over this? its fucking Paint. how much more could they update it? it has always been the same basically.

[@hamagram]

Loved this video. I remember messing around with paint back in kindergarten and being super excited about it

[@djnekroman]

I hadn't upgraded to Windows 7 until quite a few years after it's release. Once I finally did, I can remember the first time I booted Paint... I was legitimately blown away by how much more impressive they had made the program. I even made little dallies into actual "digital art" because I was so impressed by what Paint had become. I

[@AxelDragani]

*FARTS*

[@LeeDee5]

3D FARTS

[@mehraneh1554]

3D DONGS

[@cryptical3236]

4D GASS OUT OF YOU'RE A**

[@debbyclowner]

XP was best paint

[@CommodoreFan64]

I have to agree MS Paint for XP was the best, but I can't count how much time I wasted on MS Paint for Win 95 back in high school when I was done with my typing class in less in about a 1/3 of the year(it was self paced from a book, with computer automated test), and the school's internet was wanting to be too slow to do anything useful.

[@strain42]

I like the Vista version a little more (one of the few things I preferred Vista for) it was basically the same but had a few more default color options and a couple of extra options for certain tools.

[@lewisfilby2394]

This is widely agreed with. In fact, the internet-famous artist "Jim'll Paint It" who exclusively uses MS Paint for his drawings recently said, (after hearing the news of its discontinuation) that he actually doesn't care because he runs Windows XP in a virtual machine because that version of Paint is superior.

[@RubyRocket26]

Ahhh.... so many childhood memories of editing my drawings pixel by pixel with Paint!!! Glad to hear it's not completely going away.

[@offrails]

I remember spending many hours growing up with Microsoft Paintbrush (a licensed version of ZSoft Paintbrush) with stunning four color CGA graphics (though I later figured out how to switch palettes) and the functionally identical Paintbrush in Windows 3.x. I used to do all sorts of things, such as design buildings, rearrange maps, and even "hack" graphics of games

[@familyguyfunnymoments34]

It's 2019 and paint is still on Windows 10 😂

[@kidwolf0015]

I was gonna say that my Windows 10 laptop still has Paint (not paint 3D), but some of the newer ones have Paint 3D instead. I think it has something to do with which version of Windows 10 you have...

[@erikskallevold2080]

And then you have Paint 3d, which is the worst shit I've ever seen. I can't even copy-paste

[@YAUUN]

Won't even install for me, it claims I need to update & my Win 10 is fully up to date.

[@seshpenguin]

Does it not come bundled with WIndows 10 Creators Update? I did for me.

[@ChristineSimsOfficial]

I once had windows 10...but I hate windows 10. If I cant play sims 2 on it, it's not worth my time. Not like I play it much anymore, but take away my option and See me get pissed.lol. When I built my new computer I went with and older windows just so I knew I could install older games with ease. paint 3d seems cool tho, but I'm sure I'd never use it.lol

[@PixelatedH2O]

I can play Sims 2 just fine on Windows 10. In fact I can still play some games designed for Windows 98 on it.

[@PixelatedH2O]

You can always just backup the Paint executable and keep it forever.

[@sarahjames9768]

Paint was the first art software I ever used. Thank you for sharing this video.

[@MSPaynt]

95/XP paint were always my favorites, i'm glad it is still appreciated all in all

[@THE_BATLORD]

LGR I love you fuck the haters

[@jordanfallout5684]

+Sin Talento Producciones, Yes, that 1 singular dislike.

[@dutchlogitechclan]

dab on the haters

[@AntiChangeling]

What haters?

[@GANCHO1997]

Fine Philosophy A dislike doesn't mean he hates him though. Maybe he just didn't like this particular video.

[@_chipchip]

Please stop.

[@0313koning]

I don't like how something allways needs to be 'improved'.

[@Actuallyshea]

0313koning have fun staying in the past then. Everyone must evolve, everything must change to stay relevant and up to date with the new technology.

[@0313koning]

Erin Newbeck I know, and I'm curious how 3D paint will work out. But I don't have the feeling at this moment in time that the old paint needed to get replaced.

[@erwinderdoofe]

I feel like a lot of unneccecary stuff is getting added to everything while lacking improvement on the basic functions. Cars are good examples. The only things getting better there are the tires and safety. A new car will be rubbish in a decade.

[@onometre]

if people weren't pulled kicking and screaming into the future, they'd still be riding horses

[@nickwallette6201]

If the real world worked like software, we would all be trying to get used to eating soup with a metal implement shaped like a Dorito. "Spoons are deprecated."

[@AnimalFacts]

Good stuff man, good stuff.

[@rollingtroll]

Impressive how quickly you did this :D.

[@LGR]

Thanks! Although to be transparent, I've had this video concept in various stages for about five years now, ever since I covered the Mouse Systems PC mouse :)

[@samuellara2754]

MS Paint was the very first program I used on my very first computer in the Windows XP days. You will be missed missed old friend.

[@advancetotabletop5328]

Love the doodles. Makes me wonder what the LGR videos would be like if you could doodle on them as well!

[@MengaoZico]

Loved this. Thank you

[@eiadtarabulsi]

I have had and will always have a soft spot for MS Paint since I first used it back in the day. I've seen people do some pretty impressive stuff using MS Paint. Sure, its not as complex or advanced as something like Adobe Photoshop, but for a software that's bundled with a Microsoft operating system, its pretty darn good. I even use it at the office here and there. Its not as complex or advanced like other software as I've already mentioned. However, its proven to be a nifty and effective software that people will fondly remember years down the road. Your videos are so well done and professional. Thanks again!

[@swidr5626]

It's funny how Paint 3D is basically forgotten unused piece of software now and Paint is still very widely used 7 years after