Think of the Adjustments as color filters applied to each pixel within the layer or selection. More Adjustments may be added via third-party plugins available from the forum. The Layers Menu has commands which alter the active layer. Add, delete, duplicate, merge or import a layer from this menu.įlip, rotate and zoom commands are also present as is a command to open the Layer Properties dialog.Ĭontains nine Adjustments which manipulate the colorization of the active layer or selection. This menu contains commands that resize, rotate or otherwise alter the entire image, including all the layers present in the image. View Menu also contains commands to toggle visibility of the Pixel Grid, Rulers and Checkboxes to set the units of measurement. These commands change the way that the image in the Editing Window is presented. Edit MenuĬontains commands to step forwards and backwards through the image history, clipboard controls and commands to manipulate selections. Open, acquire, close, save and print images from this menu. These options behave similarly to other document and image editing programs. You can also follow him on Twitter.There are seven top-level menus and six icons across the menu bar: Menu Bar File Menu If you'd like to support Talon Zane's work in the future, you can do so on his Patreon. Talon Zane is also a budding game developer.

Remember that time they were going to take it away? That made me real sad and I didn't like it. Thank you Talon Zane, for ensuring that ms paint, a reliable and stalwart program of the windows ecosystem which I hope will never go away nor become overcomplicated and annoying. 'mspaintcompanion may not be as functionally reliable as expected,' warns Zane, 'Severe jank will be fixed whenever possible.' You can put a sketch on one layer and create the final piece over it, or trace a reference image-among many, many other uses. You can perfect one part of a piece of art, then move to others without risking disruption to your already-completed bits. Why are layers important? Well, they're a standard of every major graphic design program for the last 20 years because they're just so useful. 'That's right, you can now pile on as many layers as you need to perfect your silly little doodles,' says Zane, 'no longer will you be confined to creating simple, one-layered monstrosities!' A lovely thing for myself, as I am a simple, one-layered monstrosity and need all the uniqueness I can get.Īt this point there is someone reading this who does not know why layers are important. It's a beautiful concept as an update to the 38 year old app, and more than anything just kind of an obvious upgrade that I think we all agree is confusing on Microsoft's part. The mod is a creation of 17-year-old game developer Talon Zane, and is available along with its source code for free.

Layers mod for MS paint