You can now also open and save transparent PNG files in Paint. Before, erasing parts of an image only filled them in with the active background color. Meanwhile, support for transparency means that when you erase parts of a layer, elements from layers underneath will become visible.
Layers behave as they do in other image editors: You can create multiple, with the ability to show or hide them, duplicate them, and merge them together. The latest additions: support for transparency and layers.Īnnounced in a Windows Insider blog post, these advanced editing features are now rolling out to the Canary and Dev channels with Paint version 11.2308.18.0 and higher, ahead of a wider potential rollout. It got a new lease on life-no mere stay of execution, but rather, fresh features started being added to the program. After the public outcry, Paint didn’t just get a reprieve. That is, we did until Microsoft tried to put it out to pasture several years ago. Microsoft Paint used to be an app we all took for granted.
