IDG / Cara Neil The original photo is credited to Cara Neil, on Flickr, in the public domain. Edits to the second photo were made using Paint 3D by IDG’s Mark Hachman.

Microsoft recommends the Paint and Photos apps for viewing and editing 2D images and the 3D Viewer app for viewing 3D models. Creating and editing 3D images will be left to third-party software.

Now, it looks like the end is finally in sight for the Paint 3D app, three years after it was removed from new Windows 10 installs. As posted by X user @phantomofearth, anyone who still runs the ...

If you rely on Paint 3D for your creative projects, now is the time to start exploring other options. Microsoft's recommendationsâ Paint, Photos, and 3D Viewerâ are solid alternatives that can ...

Paint 3D excels at image resizing and cropping tasks. In addition to resizing, Paint 3D offers simple and easy-to-use photo editing tools, as well as a straightforward image overlay tool.

While introduced years ago as a more modern Paint app and pre-installed on some Windows 10 devices, Paint 3D's deprecation is unsurprising, given that it was never a default application on Windows 11.

Like the old Paint, Paint 3D is lacking when it comes to basic photo editing tools like brightness, contrast, and color tuning. You can still draw on images, rotate them, and crop them, however.