Paint on windows xp is very basic, is there any updates? or good alternatives?

i have windows xp and find the paint system that comes with it in accessories very basic, i have updates for everything else but couldn't find anything for paint is there anything, or is there something better elsewhere i can download for free? im not looking for anything too advanced just something me and my young son could use. thanks for any help.Paint on windows xp is very basic, is there any updates? or good alternatives?
Yeah, there's Paint.net. Think of it as a buffed up version of paint.


http://www.getpaint.net/redirect/wp/inde鈥?/a>





Gimp is an alternative, but it has quite a steep learning curve:


http://www.gimp.org/





Photoscape is only really good for editing and touching up photos, but it has quite a bit of interesting features:


http://www.photoscape.org/





Hope it helps!Paint on windows xp is very basic, is there any updates? or good alternatives?
umm a free alt. could be gimp.. its something close to photoshop but it also can be used just to mess around! heck i created my first moving images by messing around with it so.. it is worth a look at! an advantage point is it grows as he grows and there are also things he can learn by googling gimp tutorials.
You should also have within Microsoft Photoshop Editor which is one up from Paint or, if possibly, if you have Office XP, Photoshop Editor was replaced with Office Picture Manager which is even better, and on a par with the free download you can get from Google, i.e. Picasa2. These however are for digital imaging, not for drawing. So if it is something that you want to play around with for drawing, Open Office's draw program, is a basic version of Publisher and you could use the drawing tools, shapes etc. for constructing pics and shapes and colour them etc.
*Gimp*


http://www.gimp.org/


Is a quite good free alternative, called Gimp. But it still can't compete with Photoshop at a serius level.





Gimp may seam advanced or hard at first, however there are lots of places to get help, some of which include:


http://wiki.gimp.org/gimp/GimpTutorials





http://gug.dotsrc.org/ - (Gimp User Group)


http://www.gimptalk.com/


http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/


http://gimp-tutorials.net/





*Sqirlz Water Reflections* http://www.xiberpix.com/SqirlzReflect.ht鈥?/a>


Used to create water Reflections, and ripples, snow, and rain.





*TextureMaker*


http://www.texturemaker.com/download.php


Also quite good, it is cheap. And theres a free trial version on their website.





*IrfanView*


http://www.irfanview.com/


Also a quite good tool, when it comes to optimization.





*Photoshop*


http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/鈥?/a>


One of the best applications, perhaps to much in your case.





Other Tools:


http://www.jql.co.uk/avatarsizer.htm


http://avatarmaker.abi-station.com/index鈥?/a>





http://www.ultimatepaint.com/ - (Ultimate Paint)


http://www.getpaint.net/ - (Paint.NET)


http://picasa.google.com/ - (Google's Picasa)


http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/ - (Serif PhotoPlus)


http://www.vicman.net/vcwphoto/index.htm - (VCW VicMan's Photo Editor)


http://photofiltre.free.fr/frames_en.htm - (PhotoFiltre)





Trial Software/Shareware:


http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/u鈥?/a> - (Paint Shop Pro)


A quite good (easy to use), alternative to photoshop.

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