Looking For Free Area Calc Software?!

[jfrazierjr]

Hi, I just registered now, specifically to answer.

Use Paint.NET. Open your file, use the selection tools to select the area you want to measure and at the bottom PAINT.NET tells you exactly how many square pixels you have selected. All you need now is to convert that to meters or whatever.

Sooo... now how about posting up some maps from Paint.NET? I downloaded it the other day just to play around, and some of the fairly easy things from GIMP I was not able to figure out how to do in it. I think it would be nice to see what kind of stuff can make out of it without to much work.

Joe

[Sigurd]

Sounds like a great idea. Paint.net looks like a nice interface and its very fast on my machine (low resources I think) It definitely compares to other free graphic packages.

Only problem is I'm content to let it be a one trick pony - I'll measure area in it and, at least initially, keep using my other software.

Sigurd.

Doesn't mean I don't appreciate the one trick pony .

[wacko76]

Sooo... now how about posting up some maps from Paint.NET? I downloaded it the other day just to play around, and some of the fairly easy things from GIMP I was not able to figure out how to do in it. I think it would be nice to see what kind of stuff can make out of it without to much work.

Joe

Ahem, well, I'm not that big an artist. Mainly using CC3, and that stuff looks still crappy. I prefer Paint.NET over GIMP simply because I never got the hang of the GIMP GUI. Not having one window to rule them all, one window to find them, one window to bring them all and in usability bind them is difficult to get used to.