Editing Microsoft Paint (section)

=== Windows 9x ===
[[File:Brazilian boy drawing the Brazilian flag on Microsoft Paint.jpg|thumb|right|Brazilian boy drawing the [[Brazilian flag]] on Microsoft Paint, 2005]]

Microsoft shipped an updated version of Paint with [[Windows 95]] and [[Windows NT 4.0]]. At this point, Microsoft began updating the source code entirely from scratch and did not license any further code or versions of [[PC Paintbrush]]. This version featured an updated user interface that would carry on to later versions of Windows up to Windows Vista and allows saving and loading custom color palettes as .pal files.<ref>{{cite web|title=Problems Using Saved Colors with 256-Color Bitmap |url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130295 |work=Support |publisher=[[Microsoft]] |access-date=February 22, 2015 |date=November 15, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090112083405/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/130295 |archive-date=January 12, 2009 }}</ref> This functionality only works correctly if the [[color depth]] of images is 16 bits per pixel (bpp) or higher. Later versions of Paint do not support this feature.

In Windows 95–98, [[Windows 2000]] and [[Windows Me]], Paint can open JPEG, GIF and 48-bit ([[Color depth|16-bpp]]) TIF images and save images in JPEG and GIF formats when appropriate [[Plug-in (computing)|graphics filters]] are installed. Such plug-ins are included with [[Microsoft Office]] and [[Microsoft PhotoDraw]]. This also allows Paint to use transparent backgrounds.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_programs/want-ms-paint-version-from-windows-98/49591c3d-3487-4142-99a1-04ac51ba3b44|title=Want MS Paint version from Windows 98|date=January 14, 2011|work=Community|publisher=[[Microsoft]]|access-date=October 27, 2016|archive-date=October 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027192336/http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_programs/want-ms-paint-version-from-windows-98/49591c3d-3487-4142-99a1-04ac51ba3b44|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=23012|title=Transparency in MS Paint|date=October 9, 2009|publisher=3D Realms|access-date=October 27, 2016|archive-date=October 27, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027192319/https://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=23012|url-status=live}}</ref> Support for [[PCX]] files was dropped.<ref name="kb186967">{{cite web|url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/186967 |title=Paint Tool in Windows 98 Does Not Support .pcx Files |publisher=[[Microsoft]] |work=Support |access-date=December 6, 2014 |date=January 23, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070505012239/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/186967 |archive-date=May 5, 2007 }}</ref> Starting with Windows Me, the canvas size expands automatically when larger images are opened or pasted instead of asking like in previous versions of Windows.