How To Get Windows 11 Paint Apps Photoshop-Like Background Removal Tool

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It’s possible to download the new version of Paint with a background removal tool without signing up for Windows 11’s Insider Program. You can now use Windows 11’s Paint app to remove the background from any image. This is similar to one of the most popular features of Adobe’s paid Photoshop – background removal, but Microsoft’s tool is completely free. Plenty of free or paid apps or websites remove backgrounds from images. You can have a clean new photo with just the object, especially if you accidentally downloaded a picture with an experience that does not match the look and feel of the primary object. Microsoft is bringing the same functionality to Paint.

Microsoft officials explained users may want to remove background from images for many reasons, including something personal or professional. Paint’s new feature is convenient when you want to remove unwanted background objects from your picture. Or if you downloaded PNGs that aren’t genuinely transparent, a background removal tool can help.
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How to remove background from any image using MS Paint​

Here’s how to get started removing the background in images using MS Paint:​

1. Download and install MS Paint’s latest version from the Microsoft Store. This new version is available to testers in the Windows Insider Program, but we’ve hosted the installer on cloud storage if you can’t wait for the update to arrive in production.​
2. Open Paint.​
3. Paste or import any image onto the app’s canvas.
   

   
4. Click the “remove background” button in the toolbar.
   

   
5. This will automatically remove the background on your entire.​

It’s also possible to take control of the process and use Paint’s existing rectangle select function to remove the background from an area specified by you.
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Paint gets love from Microsoft​

Microsoft Paint, also known as MS Paint, has been part of the desktop operating systems since 1985. For the past few years, Microsoft’s famous Paint app has had its days numbered as Microsoft continued to focus on Paint 3D, an alternative and replacement to the classic app. Microsoft previously listed Paint as ‘deprecated’ following the release of Windows 10 Creators Update and encouraged users to Paint 3D. The giant had announced plans to remove Paint, much like how it intends to remove WordPad from being installed by default in Windows and instead encourage people to use newer solutions.

This changed with the release of Windows 11. In a surprising turn, Microsoft has given up on its Paint 3D commitment and instead focuses on the Paint app, following limited adoption of its Paint 3D alternative. The last update update for MS Paint added dark mode and new zoom controls. Today’s preview update introduces support for the ‘background removal tool’ in Paint.

Source https://www.windowslatest.com/2023/09/09/how-to-use-windows-11-paint-background-removal-tool/​

 

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Hands on with Windows 11 Paint’s Photoshop-like Layers & Transparency tools

Microsoft is turning the classic Paint app into a valuable graphics editing software on Windows 11. The company is not trying to compete with Photoshop. However, it hopes to make Paint more powerful in the coming months, with the first big Windows 11 Paint update rolling out to testers in the Windows Insider Program.

The previous update added a Photoshop-like ‘background removal’ tool to Paint. Users welcomed this move, but the tech giant has more in the store. Microsoft is now adding Layers and Transparency features to Paint. Layers are like transparent sheets of glass in Paint, meaning you can make changes to each layer independently and stack them together to create the desired art. If you know nothing about editing, imagine you’re making a sandwich or dish where each ingredient represents a different “layer.”

In the case of a sandwich, if you stack the ingredients on top of each other, you get a whole sandwich. This is similar to how the layer works in Photoshop or Microsoft Paint. You can use the layer feature in Paint to take your editing skills to the next level with more complex designs. You can add a picture to one layer, text to another, and then stack all layers, including a layer with Paint’s shape and other image elements, to create a complex work of art.
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How to use layers in Paint for Windows 11​

Here’s how to get started with layers in MS Paint:
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1. Download and install the updated version of Paint from the Microsoft Store or our cloud storage.​
2. Open the Paint app.​
3. Click the new Layers button. This is located in the toolbar.​
4. A new panel will be on the right side of the app’s screen.​
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6. The new layers panel is the place to add, remove or change the order of the layers in the app. You can drag and drop one layer above another to change the order of stacked elements on the canvas. You can also show or hide and duplicate individual layers or merge layers.​

When you’re done, you can hide or create more identical layers with a duplicate layer feature. All layers in Paint create one final image, and it’s like pressing down on a sandwich to make everything stick together.

Another new feature in Paint is support for transparency, which means you can now edit PNG files (transparent ones) without downloading Photoshop on Windows. You’ll notice the transparency effect in a checkerboard pattern, mainly when using a single layer. Also, if you do not have a transparent PNG file, you can create one using Paint’s background removal tool.

Microsoft is testing these new features with Windows Insiders. If you can’t wait for the experience, you can download and install updated Paint manually.​