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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: May 14, 2007
- Total Downloads: 3,314,678
- Downloads last week: 45,019
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 851 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
If you just want to retouch images a bit, Photoshop is overkill. Check out Paint.NET, an open-source freeware editor with all the essential tools, including those for cropping, rotating, resizing, adjusting colors, and creating collages.
Paint.NET supports the most popular image formats--JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and others--but not superhigh resolution ones like RAW. However, you'll find such basic effects as Red Eye Removal, Emboss, Mosaic, and Oil Painting, and a few higher-end features such as Clone Stamp, Lasso Select, and Magic Wand. Like a full-fledged graphics package, Paint.NET even supports layers and an actions manager. The interface is very convenient, and the panels are semitransparent, so you won't need to hide them.
Version 3 fixes many old quibbles. Multiple-image editing is done through a convenient thumbnail manager in the upper-right corner of the app; blurry tool icons have been sharpened as well. Paint.NET is far better than Microsoft Paint, and given its free price, it's a no-brainer for anyone who does a lot of minor graphical tweaking.
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Publisher's description
From dotPDN :Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
Version 3.07 enhances the Line/Curve tool, significantly reduces the download size, and fixes some bugs related to opening and saving files in Windows Vista.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.07 enhances the Line/Curve tool, significantly reduces the download size, and fixes some bugs related to opening and saving files in Windows Vista.
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User reviews of Paint.NET 3.07
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 851 votes
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: Paint.NET 3.07
Pros: It does what it cliams. It works on Vista. It is the best freeware program I have seen for a long time.
Cons: I cannot see any cons
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Version: Paint.NET 3.07
Pros: there is nothing that this image editing softwares doesnt do (in case u dnt want to spend). effects like blurs, distort, addin noise,edge detect , emboss, frosted look, glow, oil painting, outline detection, pixelet, relief, red eye removal, sharpen, autoleveling, black and white,contrast, brightness control, hue and saturation, color inversion, levels, sepia, multiple layering, transluscency, and the list is still not over. it proves best things in life are free!
Cons: absolutely nothing, may be more demanding on lower RAMS, i own 256 mb ram without any graphic card installed
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Paint.NET 3.07
"The best lightweight image manipulation program"
Pros: Lightweight, nice interface with semitransparent toolbars, and lots of features. CAn handle most image files and it is also really fast.
Cons: No plugins to extend its features, but then it is not meant for professional use.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Paint.NET 3.07
"Very professional, high-end package"
Pros: Better interface than Photoshop. Does almost everything a high end professional hardcore graphics engine does but free. A lot like Gimp, but without the crashes. Nearly all manipulations work within a selection too.
Cons: none
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Version: Paint.NET 3.07
"Great for simple edits, easy to use and doesn't take forever to open"
Pros: I like the fact it opens up right away, a step up from MS paint, also when I do a screen dump, it asks me whether I want to expand the canvas. And all the tools are right there within sight. I like it.
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