It's possible many mouse users aren't exploring the Ink Workspace apps and are unaware they handle 80% of Paint's tasks. In the meantime, straight forward functions that many people (not me) relied upon with tried and true Microsoft Paint are not available or difficult to find. The top down 3d view has been rendered useless. There are still no transformation tools for scaling objects and the interface for translating meshes in 3d space only works in the 2D view. The integration with Remix3D, Microsoft’s new 3d mesh sharing community, is no longer obvious. I haven’t circled back to it for over a month and I’m sorry to report that it’s not working nearly as easily as I remember. I played with the Paint3D Preview as soon as it became available and found it to be very easy to use for simple 3D illustration and doodling. As a 3D guy, I was delighted by the focus on 3D during the unveiling of the Creators Update. I can see incorporating this feature into a variety of workflows.Īs I wrote above, many users are complaining vociferously about the pending deprecation of venerable Microsoft Paint. On my Surface Book running the current release version of Windows 10, I can pause, make a note at a precise point and resume playback.

Playback controls are a little wonky in Insider Build 15025 on my Surface Pro 4. When you save your video, the ink layer is rendered into the final file and it will draw on and off during playback. What I never would have noticed without the bug bash prompt was that Photos is also a video player and its ink features allow you to annotate video on the fly.

The app runs perfectly on Windows 10 1607, which was released in July. You don’t need an Insider Build to test these out. I’ve always assumed that it was only a photo viewer, but the program has evolved into an interesting image editor with ink capabilities of its own. I’ll admit that I don’t often use many of the standard Windows 10 apps, so I only began to explore the Photos app because of the Bug Bash challenges. Photos app allows video playback and annotations

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