Microsoft Paint’s new slider allows users to customize canvas sizes precisely

There is a new Paint experience.

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Published onMarch 13, 2024

published onMarch 13, 2024

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Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11 have a new Microsoft Paint experience, alongside the newly-announcedTeams single desktop app experience, and thenew Copilot experience.

The new Microsoft Paint experience includes a new slider that allows users to customize canvas sizes precisely, according to the official blog post. The slider can also be used to customize the size of the brusher, pencils, and eraser tools.

With this update to Paint, we are improving the brush size selection experience with a new size slider for pencil, brushes, and eraser tools. With the new size slider, you can choose from a wider range of size options and preview the selected size on the canvas as you drag the slider.

Users will only have to click on any of the pencil, brushes, or eraser tools, and a size slider will appear on the left side of the canvas. Clicking on the slider will allow them to customize the size to the preferred one.

Microsoft says this new slider is gradually rolling out in Paint to insiders, so if you’re currently enlisted in one of these channels, you might not get it right away.

With this occasion, the Redmond-based tech giant is also updating the existinglayers featurewith new capabilities. These include new background options and new ways to copy visible content on layers.

We are also improving layers by adding a new background option to the Layers panel. With this option, you can set the Background color for the canvas. Open the Layers panel and click the “Background” tile at the bottom or use Ctrl + Shift + B to try this out yourself. This will open the color picker dialog where you can set any color as the background. You can also use the “Hide background” option to make the background completely transparent or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + H to quickly show/hide the background.

We are also adding a new way to copy with “Copy visible layers”. This enables you to copy all visible content across layers. To use this option, select an area using the selection tool and invoke the context menu or use the Ctrl + Shift + C keyboard shortcut. “Copy” (Ctrl + C) will copy the visible content from the current layer only.

You can read the full blog posthere.

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