Microsoft tests layers and transparency in Paint

[Jan]

Microsoft Paint getting two powerful Photoshop-like features

Microsoft's basic image creation and editing tool Paint is getting two useful new features commonly used in more advanced photo editors like Adobe Photoshop.

In a blog post on Monday, 18 September 2023, Windows Inbox Apps principal product manager, Dave Grochocki, told Windows 11 Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels that layers and transparency were now available for them to test.

 

[daveza]

That the one that saves to bmp?

 

[Flanders]

I feel like I've traveled back in time to 1995.

Speaking of which, MS, now do budging an image in Word without the space-time continuum seizing up.

 

[rvZA]

Can we cancel Photoshop now?

 

[konfab]

I feel like I've traveled back in time to 1995.

Speaking of which, MS, now do budging an image in Word without the space-time continuum seizing up.

Reject WYSIMOLWYG and embrace WYSIWYM

 

[Flanders]

Reject WYSIMOLWYG and embrace WYSIWYM

What you see is wat nou?

To be clear though, I never use word but I do use Adobe products every day.

 

[konfab]

What you see is wat nou?

To be clear though, I never use word but I do use Adobe products every day.

What You See Is More Or Less What You Get (Microsoft word) vs What you See Is What You Mean (Typesetted document systems like Latex and Markdown)

 

[Flanders]

What You See Is More Or Less What You Get (Microsoft word) vs What you See Is What You Mean (Typesetted document systems like Latex and Markdown)

I'm pedantic in that way. What I insist is what I demand (to the 0.001 of a pixel)

 

[wizardofid]

That the one that saves to bmp?

You be surprised how useful paint is, quick jpeg to png conversion, web image conversion, pretty useful for printscreen as well. It is super fast, for quick image conversion, resizing, cropping ect. But the time photoshop loads I am done already.
As for image editing I use quite a bit.
Paint
Gimp ( gimp specific plugins)
Photoshop ( Photoshop specific plugins)
Nvidia Texture tools (better and wider selection of DDS compression formats)
Adding layers and transparency is some thing extremely useful in my line of work, if it remains as fast as it is now.

 

[backstreetboy]

Can we cancel Photoshop now?

Yes move on over to Affinity Photo.

 

[rvZA]

Yes move on over to Affinity Photo.

Fcvk me! For once I actually agree with you.

 

[RaptorSA]

I welcome this.
Me and the other three people on the planet still using PSP 9 for a quick image edit.

 

[daveza]

One person here using paint.net