I'm perfectly happy with with Multimedia Fusion's picture editor and Paint Shop Pro 7
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But as for MS Paint... it's not bad, just time consuming.... it's like and old beater truck: hit the dash a couple times to make it start, pump the throttle if it starts to quit at a stop light, ease the breaks before stopping or else they'll slip....
MS Paint is no where near as bad as pixeling in Apple Works 6 though....