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"Microsoft open sources MSPaint.exe" two weeks later "Show HN: I added transparency support to MSPaint" two (more) weeks later "Adobe shares plummet as user

• doctorRetro 8y ago
  As an aside, this very proposed scenario makes me wonder how many users with more casual image editing requirements PaintDotNet has taken from Photoshop.
  • dvtrn 8y ago
    The real question is: if Microsoft's Paint gets alpha channel support, what happens to GNU Gimp? :P
• hadrien01 8y ago
  You joke, but Paint actually has a very rudimentary support of transparency: https://www.wikihow.tech/Make-a-Background-Transparent-in-Paint https://www.wikihow.tech/Make-a-Background-Transparent-in-Pa...
  • dvtrn 8y ago
    I wouldn't even call that 'rudimentary' transparency support, since you're still relying on a background color to select an area of your image. What I'm talking about is actual RGB alpha channel support https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGBA_color_space https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGBA_color_space But what you have here is still a neat function of MSPaint.exe
  • Someone1234 8y ago
    Be careful Transparent Selection also has a nasty bug. - Rectangular Select part of an image - Move it one pixel or more - With Transparent Selection enabled Rotate -> Rotate 90 Degrees This is the result: https://i.imgur.com/HlAkHM1.png https://i.imgur.com/HlAkHM1.png If you disable Transparent Selection it works as expected. I reported this to Microsoft twice over the last ten years, no fix yet...
• romwell 8y ago
  I know you joke, but in case someone has been unaware, there's Paint.NET[1], which is somewhere between MSPaint-on-steroids and Photoshop-lite. In 7.5MB, it offers most of the features casual users need from a graphics program: layers, transparency, curves, etc. - all in a footprint (and startup time) comparable to that of MSPaint. [1]https://www.getpaint.net/ https://www.getpaint.net/