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Guests Made Art in Paint
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Microsoft Paint Photo Studio: Custom Software That Made Paint a Live Event
Microsoft and the agency Squeak E. Clean Studios asked PivotXP to put the real Microsoft Paint at the center of a one-day live photo experience in Brooklyn. Paint has no API, no plug-ins and no way for another app to drive it, so we wrote the software that did: a native Windows on Arm companion for Surface Pro that opens each guest's portrait in Paint, adds an always-on-top sticker strip, reads the layered file Paint saves, and turns it into an animated video texted to the guest's phone in seconds. 181 guests and 255 deliveries in one day, with every delivery confirmed.



































