In Windows Vista, the toolbar icons and default color palette were changed. Support for acquiring images from a scanner or a digital camera was also added to Paint. However, alpha channel transparency is still not supported. In Windows XP and later, Paint uses GDI+ and therefore can natively save images as BMP, JPEG, GIF, TIFF and PNG without requiring additional graphics filters. Starting with Windows Me, the canvas size expands automatically when larger images are opened or pasted, instead of asking.

This also allows Paint to use transparent backgrounds. Such plug-ins are included with Microsoft Office and Microsoft PhotoDraw. In Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows Me, Paint can save images in JPEG, GIF and PNG formats when appropriate plug-ins are installed.

Later versions of Paint do not support this feature. This functionality only works correctly if the color depth of images is 16-bits per pixel (bpp) or higher. Microsoft shipped an updated version of Paint with Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0, which allows saving and loading a custom set of color wells as color palette (.pal) files. This version was later superseded by Paintbrush in Windows 3.0, with a redesigned user interface, true color support and support for the BMP and PCX file formats. It was a licensed version of ZSoft Corporation's PC Paintbrush, and supported only 1-bit monochrome graphics under a proprietary 'MSP' format. The first version of Paint was introduced with the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0, in November 1985. History of Microsoft Paint (1985 - 2017) by LGR

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