Microsoft Paint is finally adding some of Photoshop’s best features
MS Paint is about to become a lot more useful.
Microsoft Paint is introducing support for both layers and transparency
It's cute that they're calling layers and transparency "some of Photoshop's best features". That's pretty insulting to Photoshop.
Now these two features is in paint, designers and artists will have a hard time deciding which software to use.
Best features historically. Not best of its current features. I doubt photoshop cares if it gets insulted also haha
Meanwhile in Adobe inc. :
Employee: Sir, another popular graphic editing application is gonna integrate layers, for free.
Excecutive: So what? Those half-assed mobile apps will never catch up with us, and if they do, we'll sue them.
Employee: I-it's actually a desktop program, sir.
Executive: Oh, another community-driven project, that is gonna replicate our features for free! Nobody is gonna pay attention to that garbage, because people now are too stupid & lazy now to even type a web address.
Employee: Sir, it's Microsoft Paint.
Executive: F*CK!! 🤯
Yeah I thought they meant the cloning stamp, which is what I think most people new to editing use photoshop for.
I could have sworn Microsoft was going to stop supporting Paint awhile ago.
Did I make that up in my head or something?
Either way I love paint. Paint with layers sounds awesome.
They axed Wordpad instead
I remember something like this as well
I guess they announced that in 2017 but there was so much backlash they backed out. That was around the time they introduced 3D Paint. Now I'm wondering if they're going to silently remove the og Paint and call 3D Paint just Paint with all the new features.
3D paint was a UI nightmare. This is classic paint with new stuff built on top, no 3d
But part of the fun of using Paint is how bad it is
Now you can be several layers deep in badness, with varying degrees of visibility of badness.
It really turns up the number of possible badness combinations tbh
And that was all available for free 25 years ago with Gimp.
and now it's bundled in the most popular desktop os. so you have options
Too little, too late. I'm no graphic designer, but for the occasional times when I need to edit something, photopea has been more than enough.
What happened to Paint 3D?
Is paint 3d actually any good?
I had such a hard time using it for basic things that I'd look for wherever they'd hidden away traditional paint instead.
For actual 3D stuff I think it was decent. It was one of the easiest programs to understand for quick VRchat edits.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Microsoft is on a slow-burn path to making Paint a useful tool for actual creators by finally implementing one of Photoshop’s core features: layers.
As part of an update rolling out for testing by Windows Insiders (version 11.2308.18.0, available to some people in the Canary or Dev channels), Microsoft Paint is introducing support for both layers and transparency.
These features have long been table stakes for general editing in Adobe Photoshop, but they are key to doing proper image manipulation and digital art.
I know a lot of this may seem super basic if you’ve been using powerful tools like Photoshop for as long as many of us have, but this looks like a win for Windows users who just want easy image manipulation without the pricey subscriptions attached to software that’s really designed for working pros.
As Adobe’s prices rise and other services like Canva put these tools behind a paywall, I welcome the day when I can tell family members it’s okay to use Paint for basic family photo collages instead of having them open up Pandora’s box by starting a free trial to Photoshop.
If you’re looking to try the new Paint tools yourself, you can sign up for the Windows Insider Canary or Dev Channels and wait for the update to come your way; however, it may not be immediately available to everyone.
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