The popular photo editor has remained mostly unchanged for nearly 40 years, but a pair of new features bring it to the level of today’s options.
In what’s sure to bring a wave of nostalgia, everyone’s favorite image editor from the 1990s is back in the news. As part of an update for Windows Insiders, Microsoft Paint is getting support for two pretty big new features — transparency and layers. While both of these have been Photoshop staples for years, it’s not often that Paint receives this kind of upgrade.
Transparency, as the name implies, gives users the option to open and edit PNGs with a clear background. As with most photo editors, a checkerboard background indicates the part of the picture that’s transparent. Any part of the image that is erased will now be clear instead of white.
