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I still use Paint to crop screen shots when I need to send them to people. Quick and gets it done, on any Windows computer.

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I still haven't found anything similar on Mac. It's the biggest thing I miss after making the switch. Preview is close, but still not the same. And Gimp, the usual recommendation, is far, far far far too heavyweight to be a valid comparison to Paint.

You can take a look at Pinta[0] I don't recall if it's a clone or a port of Paint.Net, but works for me as a quick tool... the OS integration (open with) needs some work though. It uses Mono as a portable runtime and is decent enough, again for most work. IMHO easier to use than Gimp, though not as feature rich.

https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/

You don't need it on a mac. You can take a screenshot of a part of the screen only, and it saves it to an image on your desktop, you can send to anyone.

Anything similar to Paint in general, not just this specific use case. Paint covers a lot of uses that Preview doesn't.

I'm liking Paintbrush: https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/

You should try Greenshot (free). It also lets you annotate your screenshots in a fashion similar to Skitch.

Checkout ShareX, I was a long time Greenshot user (and it even integrates the nice annotation stuff from Greenshot) but I switched because it has an even nicer UI and a host of additional features while remaining simple to use (still free though.)

But ShareX does not have an image editor, like Greenshot. Which is the whole reason we are discussing alternatives to paint. Or am I wrong and someone implemented one?

It definitely has Greenshot's image editor baked right in.

You can use Window's built-in Snipping Tool to do that more quickly than with paint (still love paint though)

I use microsofts snip ( it's part of office, no idea why they don't make it part of windows )

https://mix.office.com/snip

It's replaced most of my need for ms-paint

"Snipping Tool" has been available and built in since Windows 7. Give that a try.

I have used it, and it's ok, but snip feels like the evolution of it.

Yep, and in the Win10 Creator's update you can even do WIN+SHIFT+S for an ultra quick snip directly to the clipboard.

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