Windows 11’s Paint, Snipping Tool, and Notepad Apps Are About to Get New Features
Summary
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Painting :. Paint “Save as Project” and an opacity cursor for pencil / brush – rooted modifications and smoother mixture.
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Snipping tool: Quick marking (CTRL + E) adds an online toolbar for pen, highlights, shapes, emojis, sharing / bing / co -pilot.
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Notepad (Copilot + PCS): AI available (summarize / write / rewrite) works offline, with optional cloud models if subscribed.
It’s always a good day when Windows’ default applications get updates. New versions of applications like Paint, Snipping Tool and the notepad arrive, and they have a healthy quantity of new features that you need to check.
Microsoft deploys important updates for several of its conventional Windows 11 integrated applications. Painting, snipping tool and notepad should obtain a good subset of new features on your PC very soon. I say “soon” because these changes are, at least for the moment, in deployment for initiates, so you will not be able to check them yet. However, you will want once you know what it is.
First of all, on Microsoft Paint (version 11.2508.361.0), we obtain two features which move it more in the direction that Microsoft wants it to take place – an extremely basic image editor and more capable of competing with Photoshop. We now have modifiable project files for this. You can now save your work via an option “Save as a project”, creating a .paint file. This new format allows artists and creators to close a project and reopen it later with all the intact elements, ready for an additional edition. The traditional workflow of painting has flattened the images in formats like PNG or JPG during backup, which makes it difficult to further modifications.
We also now have an opacity cursor that gives you direct control over the transparency of pencil and brush tools. By adjusting opacity, it becomes possible to create layers in layers, mix the colors gently and add depth to the illustrations directly in the application. Quite cool.
On the snipping tool, we now have a “quick markup” feature which is activated via a new button in the capture toolbar or the keyboard shortcut CTRL + E. This function allows the immediate editing of a screenshot that you have just taken. After selecting a screen region, a small toolbar appears directly on the selection, eliminating the need to open the publisher’s complete window for simple modifications.
This fast marking toolbar provides essential tools such as a pen, highlighting, eraser, shapes and emojis, allowing you to turn, highlight or add notes instantly. The selection can also be recruited on the fly using the surrounding entry handles. In addition, the toolbar incorporates buttons to share directly, carry out a visual search with Bing or send the image to Copilot.
Finally, for the 12 of you who have a COPILOT + PC, the notepad is improved with the features of AI to disk. The simple text editor will now support functions such as “summarizing” “” write “and” rewrite “. These AI tasks are processed by a local model on the device, which means that they are available without active internet connection or subscription. For those who have a subscription, the notepad offers the flexibility to switch between the local model and the AI models based on the more powerful cloud.
All these features are currently deployed for initiates, and they will be more than probably available for regular users in the coming weeks or months. Keep an eye on an update to come soon.
Source: Microsoft
