Although it still has a long way to go, the Paint application has received a new function, currently only available in the Insider version of Windows 11 (at the end of the article we show you how to install it without being an Insider user), where one of the Photoshop’s most useful features, a feature that allows remove background from any photo in just one click, becoming an interesting alternative to Adobe’s solution.
If you are part of this program, all you have to do to start testing this feature is access the Microsoft Store and look for the new update whose number is 11.2306.30.0. After updating the latest version of the Paint application, we will see a new button in the toolbar, specifically in the new panel and it is called remove background.
When you click on the button, Paint will analyze the image to differentiate the elements that are in the foreground and background to eliminate the latter. The process takes a few seconds and, although it is true that the results They are not perfect in all casesis a new function that will allow many users to not depend exclusively on Photoshop to perform this simple action.
When Paint analyzes and removes the background from the photo, it is replaced by the color white. Ideally, instead of sreplace the background with whitethat was transparent allowing the user to save the result in PNG format, although, taking into account Paint does not work with layers, the chances of Microsoft changing its operation are very small.
Install the latest version of Paint without being an Insider user
If you want to try this new feature, You do not need to be part of the Windows 11 Insider program, especially if you use the computer to work and do not want to be left hanging due to a system error, since these versions are not stable. If you follow the steps we show you below, we can manually install the latest version of Paint.
- First of all, we must visit the following link and click on the URL drop-down menu (link) to select ProductID and enter the code 9PCFS5B6T72H in the search box and, in the last box, we select Fast.
- Next, we look for the file Microsoft.Paint_11.2306.30.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle and click on it to download it. The download is done through Microsoft servers, however, does not use the HTTP protocol so the browser we use will ask us if we really want to download it.
- Once we have downloaded it, click on it to install it on our PC.
We must keep in mind that this new version will replace the one we currently have installed, something that should not be a problem since the new version will not eliminate any of the functions that Paint currently offers. This new version is only compatible with Windows 11, so if we have Windows 10 we can forget about it.
Once we have installed the new version, it is not necessary to restart the computer, the only thing we have to do is open the application and start testing this new function whose results may vary depending on the image we use.