Click the big New button and let’s dive in. Skip the introductory 'challenge' at the top: The way Microsoft introduces Paint 3D – immediately kicking you out to the web, for example – is so needlessly confusing that we’ve devised a better grand tour ourselves. Microsoft made an effort to introduce new users gently via Paint 3D’s welcome screen, which includes a pair of short introductory videos that are worth watching. Remember the dioramas you made in elementary school? That’s Paint 3D in a nutshell. You can accomplish two main tasks with Paint 3D: constructing your own 3D objects, and placing them within a scene. Getting started: Know what you want to do Watch the video below to see it in action, and read how to use it after that. Since then, the app has remained accessible to beta-testing Insiders only as a preview, before its more general release today. Microsoft first launched the app in conjunction with the Windows 10 Creators Update and Surface Studio announcements last fall. A major part of Paint 3D’s appeal is the Remix 3D community, where you and other members can import, edit, then share digital objects and ideas, taking from and providing inspiration to your fellow digital artists. Paint 3D’s entire purpose is to create fun, cartoony 3D objects and scenes. Though it shares a name, Paint 3D isn’t really like the familiar Microsoft Paint app at all. But using the 3D version that comes with the next version of Windows actually turned out to be a lot of fun. Everyone loves to hate Microsoft Paint (unless it's Jim using it). Here we see if it'll be as much the subject of derision as the 2D version of Paint.Įveryone hates Microsoft Paint. Microsoft's new 3D creation tool, Paint 3D, is here today as part of the Windows 10 Creators Update.

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