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Paint & Photos apps on Win10 - edit AI graphics
Probable none of this will help, but here we go. First, I would look at getting rid of Win10. It is no longer supported, and programs will be hard to find.
I have found most of the free programs just don't do what I need for quality presentations. I'm using a lot of Adobe programs to modify a lot of AI Copilot generated graphics and my audio. I hate to say it you may need to invest in upgrading.
Good luck
Thanks for your perspective, Eric EricSchaffer-d1.
I've upgraded to Win11 at home, but have no control of IT at work (where I assume they're paying for extended updates of Win10).
Being an Adobe user, you might shudder, but I actually find that PowerPoint does most of what I need, like background removal, cropping, resizing, transparency, etc.
In the webinar I mentioned, I liked Tom Kuhlman's use of Paint and Photos, because they make it easier than PPT to save changes to the graphics file (as Adobe apps might too).
However, I don't want to use Photoshop or Illustrator, because they're massively over-powered for what I want to do. So they might take like 20 seconds just to open, and I don't know my way around them.
In contrast, Paint and Photos are extremely quick to open, and simple to use.
I just heard Affinity 3 is now free, so if I can install that at work, that could be one option. But again it might be slower and more complicated than I need.
If you haven't yet seen it, I recommend the webinar. Assuming you're on Win11, it could give you a quicker and far simpler way to edit raster and vector graphics.