So Windows 11 Paint supports layers now...
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Except you can't easily save them.
- None of the formats supported by "Save As..." support layers, so each of them will give you a warning that saving will flatten the image
- The layer list has a context menu, but that menu has a "Save Layer As..."-shaped hole in it.
- The only way I've found for saving the layers involves hiding all layers, showing one, saving the pic with "Save As...", and moving on to the next (Don't Ctrl+S, or you'll overwrite your previous save instead).
They couldn't even be bothered to add any saving format, not even something basic like "a dumb zip with all layers as PNG files in it".
ETA: Oh and GIF support is still broken. Still shows the "this might degrade color quality" when the actual number of colors used in your image is less than 256 (my test pic had a grand total of two colors, without gradient), and even with the new transparency support, saving as GIF will simply make the background white.
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@Medinoc said in So Windows 11 Paint supports layers now...:
a dumb zip
I was expecting the hover text to be "all zips are dumb" :)
What is a Microsoft packaging zip?
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@marczellm they already have DOCX and XLSX, last thing we need is PNGX.
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@marczellm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Packaging_Conventions
It's the thing used for docx and the like, NuGet packages etc.
The API to manipulate them is part of the .NET Framework Base Class Library and accessible through COM, so clearly they wanted it to be ubiquitous.
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@Medinoc TIFFs can support multiple images/layers/printing plates/whatever, but they chose to not use it.
My recommendation, though, would be to steal Paint.NET's format.
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For evil points they could support the barest possible minimum subset of PSD.
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@Arantor said in So Windows 11 Paint supports layers now...:
For evil points they could support the barest possible minimum subset of PSD.
Embrace, restrict, extinquish?
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@PleegWat said in So Windows 11 Paint supports layers now...:
@Arantor said in So Windows 11 Paint supports layers now...:
For evil points they could support the barest possible minimum subset of PSD.
Embrace, restrict, extinquish?
It’d be nice for someone to do it to Adobe for a change.
