mspaintCompanion (Layers for MSPaint)
A downloadable tool for Windows
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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Win
based mod
can you do one for windows xp and vista?
this rocked the world
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.
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.
There seems to be a bit of a problem...
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.
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
"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?
when i open this an unknown button starts pressing as fast as the pc can detect so i couldnt reallly use it
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.
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?
You will go down in history as wait i just noticed this is all comic sans tahats fucking hilarious. oh my god
this is better than photoshop!!!
its free!
its not hard to be better than photoshop (for art)
I feel complete now
Best yooooo
when i open it my pc blows up
legend
nice work bruh
3P1C!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111111
we need a full mod for ms paint with this feature, dark mode, more brushes, and stuff
(emphasis on the o)
dope work. thanks for sharing
as an mspaint artist myself, THANK YOU SO MUCH I NEEDED THIS
This tool is everything to me. Thank you.
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOO
yippee :3
Oooh fascinating! Hope my donation helps!
yippee!
holy shit
ms paint is like an onion
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