Replacements for Paint and Publisher?

[RobertU]

Microsoft has announced the discontinuation of its Windows Paint program and the Publisher portion of Microsoft Office. I have used Paint to edit, resize, and save images in a different format. I have used Publisher to create covers for eBooks.

Can anyone recommend replacements, preferably free, for these programs? I prefer something simple. I don’t need all the bells and whistles that a professional artist might want.

I will likely load them only after I get a new computer this Fall, or maybe later if Microsoft offers, at a price, extended support for Windows 10.

 

[noonereal]

Microsoft has announced the discontinuation of its Windows Paint program and the Publisher portion of Microsoft Office. I have used Paint to edit, resize, and save images in a different format. I have used Publisher to create covers for eBooks.

Can anyone recommend replacements, preferably free, for these programs? I prefer something simple. I don’t need all the bells and whistles that a professional artist might want.

I will likely load them only after I get a new computer this Fall, or maybe later if Microsoft offers, at a price, extended support for Windows 10.

I never opened either. Can't help.

 

[Isidore]

Don't know about Publisher, but I've used Paint.NET for years for basic image tasks...

Paint.NET - Free Software for Digital Photo Editing

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows.

www.getpaint.net

For more complex tasks, try GIMP...

GIMP

GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program: The Free and Open Source Image Editor

www.gimp.org

 

[bythoughts]

I asked the AI and it said that LibreOffice.Org's closest equivalent is Draw, which can open .pub files, but that Scribus.Net is better.