

Not really fit for that purpose.Īnd if I don’t want to mark something up but create something new (which will typically heavily rely on text even if it’s more visual, like a birthday invitation) the text editing is too weak to get anywhere really useful, so for that I would rather use some kind of either text editor or layouting program. Added the ability to show only the active layer to the Layers panel and View menu. In terms of image editing I guess you can do all that with Paint but it seems clumsy to me. That’s all very well tailored to most common use cases.

You can reorder, rotate, split and merge PDF documents. Note: To assign a shape to more than one layer, press CTRL and click each layer. In the Layer dialog box, click the layer to which you want to assign the shape. You can add simple shapes, arrows and text to any images. On the Home tab, in the Editing group, click Layers, and select Assign to Layer. When you're finished, you draw over the squares to remove their trace. My quintessential perfect tool is always the Preview App on macOS: ago You could try using something in the corner to connect your layers together across different separated MS Paint tabs to make a perfect square with the correct colors of something, like microsoft's squares. Paint.NET is to MS Paint what Notepad++ is to Notepad :) To change an image to have a transparent background: Install Paint.NET Download AlphaMask plugin Extract AlphaMask.dll to \Paint.NET\Effects (note you will likely need to unblock the file) Open Paint. The painting focus seems completely misguided to most of the typical use cases I can imagine. I tried GimpShop before, but did not like it. For that it was always too much about … well … painting … which is something I just don’t need on a day to day basis.

Maybe I lack the artistic talent? Paint could never cover any of my use cases.
