this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
1932 points (99.1% liked)

Technology

59322 readers
4321 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
1932
Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
199 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Automated background removal was also added recently.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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.