MS Paint is testing support for layers and transparency, in addition to background-less PNG files. These features have long been essential to Adobe Photoshop users, but here, they’ll be free on Windows.

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Microsoft Paint is finally adding some of Photoshop’s best features, including layers and transparency. This is 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. It may not be immediately available to everyone.

Microsoft Paint is finally adding some of Photoshop’s best features

Cool, can’t wait for them to rewrite their kernel from the ground up for current machines and sunset their current one they slapped code on for decades next.

There is no reason why Microsoft can add more amazing features into Paint.

Well, I use a better app on linux…