[dvtrn]

"Microsoft open sources MSPaint.exe"

two weeks later

"Show HN: I added transparency support to MSPaint"

two (more) weeks later

"Adobe shares plummet as users cancel their subscriptions to Creative Cloud by the thousands, analysts baffled"

[romwell]

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/

[hadrien01]

You joke, but Paint actually has a very rudimentary support of transparency: https://www.wikihow.tech/Make-a-Background-Transparent-in-Pa...

[dvtrn]

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

But what you have here is still a neat function of MSPaint.exe

[Someone1234]

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

If you disable Transparent Selection it works as expected. I reported this to Microsoft twice over the last ten years, no fix yet...

[doctorRetro]

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]

The real question is: if Microsoft's Paint gets alpha channel support, what happens to GNU Gimp? :P