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Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Automated background removal was also added recently.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If Paint fills your needs, GIMP will be fine.

Disagree. Paint's function is to be the Notepad of images, something not very powerful but quick and dead simple.

GIMP is needlessly hard to use.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, Krita is by far a better editor.