- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: December 17, 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 848 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
If all you want is a quick image retouch, Photoshop is overkill. Paint.NET, on the other hand, is an open-source freeware editor with all the essentials, including tools to crop, rotate, resize images, adjust colors, and create collages.
Paint.NET supports common image formats--JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and others--but not high-resolution RAW files. There are enough basic and intermediate effects and features to keep image-tweakers happy, though the red-eye removal tool is notably weak; those images may require manual attention.
Unlike most free image editors, Paint.NET supports layers and has an actions manager. The pleasing interface boasts semitransparent windows for ease of use.
Version 3 fixes many old quibbles, including a convenient thumbnail manager for handling multiple image editing, and improved program graphics. Paint.NET is far more advanced than Microsoft Paint, and given its free price, it's a must-have for anyone needing to fix images.
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Publisher's description
From dotPDN :Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plug-ins.
Version 3.2 features ability to draw Fixed Ratio and Fixed Size selections with the Rectangle Select tool.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.2 features ability to draw Fixed Ratio and Fixed Size selections with the Rectangle Select tool.
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User reviews of Paint.NET 3.2
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 848 votes
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Version: Paint.NET 3.2
Pros: fairly easy to figure out. has a chat board to help with various features of the program. very good.
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Version: Paint.NET 3.2
Pros: Better than Microsoft Paint. Simpler than Photoshop.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Paint.NET 3.2
Pros: Works great with Vista! Easy to use . . .
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Paint.NET 3.2
Pros: I'm no graphics professional, but I use Paint.net all the time. It's getting more and more useful, too. It installed really easily and now it always just works. Loads much faster than Photoshop and is way more useful than Photoshop Elements. More intuitive, too. That's completely ignoring the fact that it's FREE and there are no nag screens (if you look, you'll see an option to donate)
Cons: No Mac OSX version. Installing required Visual Basic.NET (also free) so if you're on a slow connection, it'll take a long while to download.
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0 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Paint.NET 3.2
"Very complicated for a novice to use"
Pros: free
Cons: This is apparently NOT the program for a casual photographer who just wants to touch up and manipulate family photos and doesn't have a "Philadelphia Lawyer" status. Too much time is required to try to figure what the program can do and how to make it so that. Not much in the way of tutorials available if someone wanted to spend the time and effort, anyway.
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