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as of 9/18/23, Microsoft has announced that mspaint will be officially receiving layers and transparency support, rendering this program obsolete.
this is ultimately for the best, this program was always a bit hacky and had several compatibility issues i didnt have the time to fix.
this page will remain up as a relic of its time

the app that finally brings the one thing microsoft paint has been missing all these years: layers! that's right, you can now pile on as many layers as you need to perfect your silly little doodles. no longer will you be confined to creating simple, one-layered monstrosities!

please use #mspaintcomp when posting art!

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StatusIn development
CategoryTool
PlatformsWindows
Rating
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
AuthorTalon Zane
Tagsmspaint, Open Source

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this rocked the world

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tried on windows 7 and worked pretty good besides the problem mentioned where the non-active layers go transparent and also whenever i switch layers it defaults to the select tool

I like what I'm seeing.

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When I try to use it, I get a message from MS Paint telling me that "open clipboard failed" or something along those lines that prevent it from opening. Am I doing something wrong? Also, when it did open one time, it completely swallowed up my screen and made it impossible to work, so I had to shut it down. Unsure what's going on.  

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There seems to be a bit of a problem...

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I use a graphic display tablet as a second monitor and unfortunately, my layers display on my main monitor instead of my tablet... Just thought I'd report the issue to make sure you know about it! I use Windows 11 and a Huion 220 v2, in case that's relevant.

Thank you for all your hard work so far! Looking forward to future updates.

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i tried it on some versions of windows, it seems like it works better on windows 10 than others version since it bugs a bit with windows 11 but it's still spectacular, we all thank you for making this! <3

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"Layers beneath the active layer will still appear on-top of the current canvas."

Well, not only on-top of the current canvas...


when i tried to switch layers it would stretch what id drawn and make copies of everything on the canvas and place them down in weird places?

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when i open this an unknown button starts pressing as fast as the pc can detect so i couldnt reallly use it

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this is so awesome my only issue with the layers though is it completely makes the non active layers transparent and the active layer gets plastered across my screen O_O i followed the instructions regarding the canvas and dropdown but that seems to be the only janks im encountering

According to the readme, that's a known issue that they don't plan to fix because it's funny.

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i said that yeah but im going to end up fixing it anyways :o(

...Having some pretty significant trouble with this actually..

Switching the active layer shifts everything on that layer down,

Plus, I tried filling in a shape with the bucket tool, and it no matter how I organized the layers it was always on top of everything else.

Am I using something wrong, or is this excess jank? Is this even the right way to ask about problems with the program? Should I just use the email in the readme?

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You will go down in history as wait i just noticed this is all comic sans tahats fucking hilarious. oh my god

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this is better than photoshop!!!    image i made with thisits free!

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its not hard to be better than photoshop (for art)

I feel complete now

Best yooooo

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when i open it my pc blows up

legend

nice work bruh

3P1C!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111111

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we need a full mod for ms paint with this feature, dark mode, more brushes, and stuff

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(emphasis on the o)

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dope work. thanks for sharing

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as an mspaint artist myself, THANK YOU SO MUCH I NEEDED THIS

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This tool is everything to me. Thank you.

LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

yippee :3

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Oooh fascinating! Hope my donation helps!

yippee!

holy shit

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ms paint is like an onion

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i wish i could pin comments on itch

Sharing this on twitter is enough

holy shit layers real

This is incredible!

this is awesome thansk you <3

you've done a wonderful thing here, thank you<3

FIIIRST! SICK SHIT DUDE!