The Gimp provides the Rectangle, Ellipse and Lasso selection tools to help you cut out specific parts of a photo or illustration to keep, eliminate or edit. In addition, if you add an Alpha channel to ...

Photoshop CS6 has a selection of features that enable your company to work with transparency. You can create a new PSD file with a transparent background and paste elements of an existing image to it.

The big picture: Microsoft continues to add new features to Paint, a program the company had considered discontinuing some years ago. Now, Paint is receiving updates that include some intriguing new ...

Once a way to pass the time when your internet was down, MS Paint has grown from the super-simple doodle pad of decades past to a surprisingly useful raster graphics editor through a slew of free ...

Placing transparent text on an image is a great way to enhance photos for magazines, calendars, postcards, and much more. It allows the text to be seen on the image without the text blocking any of ...

The venerable, equally derided and beloved MS Paint app has been on a roll lately, picking up a major redesign, dark-mode support, better zoom controls, and other fit-and-finish updates all within the ...

When choosing between PNG and JPG, it's important to understand their strengths. PNG is often the better choice, especially ...