Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency
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Automated background removal was also added recently.
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Don't hate on Bitmap files.
They are good for glitch art (open in text editor and start mangling and you get some really cool results)
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It's like corrupting 8-bit games, isn't it?
I couldn't tell you the technical reasons, but yeah same concept: Break the source data in just the right way that the end result is interpret-able, but with interesting defects. There is a bit of an art to cutting and pasting and sculpting the data in just the right way. You get a feel for it after a while.
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what are bitmap files? are they just a list of pixels or something else
That's pretty much it. Apparently the format optionally supports compression and even transparency, but last time I used paint it didn't do any of that, which is why the files were so massive.