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Zac Bowden

Microsoft Paint is gaining a feature I've been waiting 25 years for — Windows 11's built-in image editor is one step closer to replacing Photoshop

Windows 11 Paint app on a Surface Pro.

Microsoft has announced a new feature that's rolling out in preview for the Paint app on Windows 11 that enables the ability to freely rotate shapes, objects, and text within a Paint project file.

For the longest time, Paint has been a very basic image editor. It was only recently that it gained support for advanced functionality like layers and transparent images, and now it's gaining another function that means I'm one step closer towards dropping Photoshop altogether.

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