Microsoft finally took our advice and Paint will be better for it

Background removal is the new Magic Select.

MARK HACHMAN

Microsoft Paint is finally testing background removal, the killer feature of Microsoft’s Paint 3D that we hoped they’d save. And they finally have. In 2021, Microsoft pulled Paint 3D from Windows, ending its run of 3D VR applications. Unfortunately for Microsoft, Windows Mixed Reality bombed and they began quietly removing apps like Paint 3D and 3D Viewer. (Paint 3D lives on as a Microsoft Store app, however.) The idea behind Paint 3D and 3D Viewer was that you would create VR holograms that could be viewed by either the HoloLens or a third-party ecosystem of VR hardware. Paint 3D was fun, even though the idea of 3D dioramas never caught on. But Paint 3D’s best feature, Magic Select, had nothing to do with 3D. Magic Select was a 2D feature,…

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Tech Advisor (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2023

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