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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: April 27, 2008
- 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. 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 3.30 adds an Italian translation, a new "Fragment Blur" effect, and the ability to save PNG images at 8- and 24-bit color depths; And for developers, the IndirectUI system has some new controls, some new constraint rules, and can now be used for file type plugins.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.30 adds an Italian translation, a new "Fragment Blur" effect, and the ability to save PNG images at 8- and 24-bit color depths; And for developers, the IndirectUI system has some new controls, some new constraint rules, and can now be used for file type plugins.
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User reviews of Paint.NET 3.30
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 848 votes
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Version: Paint.NET 3.30
Pros: Paint.NET is very easy to use, and a very small program. I enjoyed the way cropping is done compared to my regular Image Editor program (Paint Shop Pro). PSP is overall a better program, but for ease of use and ability to adjust resizing quality and cropping ability, it is a very good program.
Cons: None of any importance (IOW none that I can find)
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Version: Paint.NET 3.30
Pros: Ease of use.
Cons: Not a competitor to other programs offered.
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Version: Paint.NET 3.30
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Version: Paint.NET 3.30
"Excellent program,keep up the good work"
Pros: Pretty well up to Photoshop (earlier version 5.5), find I am using Paint.com more and more as I get to know my way around.
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Version: Paint.NET 3.30
Pros: It is easy to use and simple.
Cons: You can't work precise.
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