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This article comes from Weixin Official Accounts: Intelligence Ji (ID: paperji), Author: Rain

For nearly 38 years since Windows 1.0 was released, Microsoft Paint has been one of the essential components of Windows.

However, in addition to the recent update of "Drawing 3D," Windows 'drawing module update has not been very existential, from the familiar 98 to today's win11, the drawing changes we have seen over the decades have adjusted the UI at most, and added some brush and shape functions.

Now, however, Paint is about to receive its biggest update ever--

In an article on Microsoft's website, Microsoft product manager Dave Grochocki announced that Paint will add two important new features:

One is the "layer" function;

Another is support for PNG transparency.

This time, it was boiling. It was boiling. After all, with these two updates, the functionality of drawing suddenly approached Photoshop.

Of course, this is just a joke, but in any case, this has always been used as an introductory textbook for children's computer prenatal education, or for retro artists to use mouse to show off skills "the most useless component," unexpectedly after decades, began to complete so late "practicality," really a bit absurd.

This belated progress may seem like a joke in a practical sense, but in the sense of Internet culture, it is as famous as IE's "slow response" and represents a vivid era of "national creation."

At the end of the day, are we really going to do PS work on "Draw"?

Initially, Paint only supported the simplest monochrome bitmap images. With the continuous iterative update of Windows,"Drawing" gradually supported color, JPG, GIF and other formats in the 1990s, and its functions became increasingly "powerful."

When we click the first heart on the keyboard, and then carefully colored with the colored pen tool, how novel and exciting.

Even after the touch screen replaced the mouse,"drawing" still has a place in Windows. The familiar interface and nostalgic toolbar seem like yesterday that never fades.

Later, I don't remember how many times we always saw the great god appear and crush us ordinary players who couldn't even draw circles with powerful works.

For example,"There is a friend abroad who works night shift at the hospital reception desk. The long night was very boring, so he began to draw, died did not learn PS, but the Windows comes with Microsoft Paint play to perfection, ten years later, the work is really good. "

And Concha Garcia Zaera, an 87-year-old grandmother from Valencia, Spain, is a veritable Microsoft "drawing" enthusiast. With ordinary mouse, in Win7 system with Microsoft comes with "drawing" to create a series of amazing works! "

And I suddenly had a sudden impulse to try to show my ambition, and found that my painting skills were not less powerful than when I was in my prime, and the effect was still strong:

And by the way, here's the original:

(I know I'm good)... hey, so what if it's bad? Good and bad are sometimes a relative concept. For example, if you look at the ability of other soul painters to create obstacles:

(I want all of them) This level of painting, in fact, with a little tinkering, anyone can do it. After all, when everyone put on shoe covers and walked into the computer room as a child, the first computer software they came into contact with might be "drawing." And those who were actively smeared on white paper by us match people, and then a few grades to FLASH in boxing.

However, in fact,"drawing" has experienced no less bumps than we think.

Microsoft's product line has taken a turn for the better. "Drawing", a good day that lasted for decades, came to an abrupt end in 2017.

At the time, Microsoft was about to stop updating or even remove the classic software that had existed for more than 30 years, citing the reason that it was committed to the development of "Drawing 3D."

As soon as the news came out, it immediately caused an uproar on the Internet. Countless post-80s and post-90s users have launched a "Save Drawing" campaign on social networking sites, tapping "RIP Drawing" with pain. This was a childhood memory!

Some great "drawing" players have also joined the protest, such as Jim'll Paint It, a great drawing god who is good at painting extremely unrestrained works, saying that he will continue to use XP system "drawing" creation, because this is the foundation of his work.

However, many netizens are also leaving their own works ready to leave a souvenir before retirement in "drawing," such as migrant workers waiting for the drawing between meetings:

"Children of the future will never know the joy of spending hours on something like this."

"Here's a drawing of the cover of a classic CD."

At the time, Mike Dally, the developer of Lemmings and Grand Theft Auto, was even more excited to call on Microsoft to release the source code for Paint and let it continue as public software.

Seeing how much fans loved it, Microsoft couldn't bear to "draw back to draw," so it later announced that users could continue to download "draw" for free in the Windows Store in the future. Therefore,"painting" avoided the fate of violent death, everyone's childhood memories were actually saved in the netizens "mourning."

Yes,"drawing" has been synonymous with digital painting for a generation. Although drawing is generally regarded as a "toy," it is still used daily by many people today. Countless stem pictures that have emerged in recent years are drawn with pictures. It is precisely because of the rough drawing, it is particularly easy to achieve the dissemination effect of the map, such as the advertisement used to recruit designers, through a bit of spoof, deliberately extremely simple visual presentation, with reverse operation to attract everyone's attention.

In addition, the extremely simple function of drawing also inspires experts to challenge them to draw amazing works. For example, the following "drawing" classic works have appeared in Hupu Pedestrian Street:

The author of this forum ID: smeller uses simple strokes to outline a magnificent journey of consciousness in this sports, sports, and competition-oriented community.

During the blind date, the author meets a mysterious woman who calls herself a waitress. She hypnotizes the author into her own consciousness, where he experiences a series of thrilling adventures.

The author was surprised to find that his consciousness was separated from his body and he could continue to talk to women normally. It turns out that the world is made up of countless "hints," among which "atomic hints" are infinitely powerful.

Later, the two of them came to an island of death without any hints. There they found a "pre-diver" head identical to the author's.

This is how we know that this is the author's separate consciousness. To return to the original world, the power of atomic suggestion must be removed.

He used simple lines and simple painting style to convey the profound inner world. This may be the charm of "drawing," the simplest way to depict infinite imagination.

As this story shows, the creative spark of freedom exists in every impulse to begin painting.

And in terms of speed of transmission,"drawing" works are also very abnormal. If you want to find a turning point in the expression of "I want it all," it is the work in which it is abstracted into several color blocks.

Only a few specific color combinations can clearly convey the strong ideological appeal and emotion of this theme.

It can be said that this work opens a window for netizens to appreciate abstract art, which was unimaginable before. It inspired a creative craze.

In these works, some use the three-dimensional division technique, with obvious Picasso late style and so on, burst out of the interesting works countless.

And "drawing" is to play the charm of simple strokes, perhaps because it can be the simplest way to convey the simplest connotation. What we dare not do or say in real life, a set of pictures helps us express it.

This is also the reason why the "I want it all" series has not been outdated so far.

These days, the "layers" feature is available in any normal image rendering and post-processing software, and there is no need for drawing to display transparent layers of PNG. If you really want to use it, you may just want to save a few seconds to open PS and other add-ons and create new projects.

This lack of practical progress is more like an Internet bomb dropped by Microsoft than a user-friendly one. We take this opportunity to look back at how many imaginary colors this old and new software provided for our childhood without crayons and colored lead for thirty years. And how many of the divine painters who are now providing us with food and grain found their future possibilities in this perhaps 640*480 white pixel world?

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