this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
1928 points (99.1% liked)

Technology

59582 readers
4135 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
L3s@fry.gs
L4s@fry.gs
L4s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
1928
Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
194 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Automated background removal was also added recently.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Tschuuuls@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don't hate on Bitmap files.

[–] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They are good for glitch art (open in text editor and start mangling and you get some really cool results)

EDIT: references

[–] AndreTelevise@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's like corrupting 8-bit games, isn't it?

[–] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

I couldn't tell you the technical reasons, but yeah same concept: Break the source data in just the right way that the end result is interpret-able, but with interesting defects. There is a bit of an art to cutting and pasting and sculpting the data in just the right way. You get a feel for it after a while.

[–] callyral@pawb.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what are bitmap files? are they just a list of pixels or something else

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's pretty much it. Apparently the format optionally supports compression and even transparency, but last time I used paint it didn't do any of that, which is why the files were so massive.