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August 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Paint.NET is probably one of the best free image
editors available. It is probably the program that is most similar to
Adobe Photoshop. With a wide range of features, I say it surpasses Gimp by a large margin.

Simple, intuitive, and innovative user interface

Every
feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately
intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance. In order to handle
multiple images easily, Paint.NET uses a tabbed document interface. The tabs display a live thumbnail of the image instead of a text description. This makes navigation very simple and fast.

Layers
Usually
only found on expensive or complicated professional software, layers
form the basis for a rich image composition experience. You may think of
them as a stack of transparency slides that, when viewed together at
the same time, form one image.

Active Online Community
Paint.NET has an online forum with a friendly, passionate, and ever-expanding community. Be sure to check out the constantly growing list of tutorials and plugins!



Frequently Updated
Updates usually come about every 4 to 6 weeks, and contain new features, perfo

rmance
improvements, and bug fixes. Upgrading to the latest
version is very simple, requiring only two clicks of the mouse.

Special Effects
Many
special effects are included for enhancing and perfecting your
images. Everything from blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal,
distortion, noise, and embossing are included. Also included is
our unique 3D Rotate/Zoom effect that makes it very easy to add
perspective and tilting.

Adjustments
are also included which help you tweak an image’s brightness,
contrast, hue, saturation, curves, and levels. You can also
convert an image to black and white, or sepia-toned.

Powerful Tools
Paint.NET
includes simple tools for drawing shapes, including an
easy-to-use curve tool for drawing splines or Bezier curves. The
Gradient tool, new for 3.0, has been cited as an innovative
improvement over similar tools provided by other software. The
facilities for creating and working with selections is powerful,
yet still simple enough to be picked up quickly. Other powerful
tools include the Magic Wand for selecting regions of similar
color, and the Clone Stamp for copying or erasing portions of an
image. There is also a simple text editor, a tool for
zooming, and a Recolor tool.

Unlimited History
Everybody makes mistakes, and everybody changes their mind. To accommodate this, every
action you perform on an image is recorded in the History window
and may be undone. Once you’ve undone an action, you can
also redo it. The length of the history is only limited by
available disk space

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Open Source and Free
 Paint.NET is provided free-of-charge, and the source code (all 140,000+ lines of it) is also available for free under generous licensing terms.
The bulk of Paint.NET is written in C#, with only a small
amount of code related to setup and shell-integration written in
C++.

To download Paint.NET, click here

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