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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: July 10, 2008
- Total Downloads: 3,829,428
- Downloads last week: 37,415
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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 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 3.35 has a new Posterize adjustment, Intersect selection mode, dramatically faster selection editing performance (add, subtract, intersect), and some small miscellaneous bug fixes.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.35 has a new Posterize adjustment, Intersect selection mode, dramatically faster selection editing performance (add, subtract, intersect), and some small miscellaneous bug fixes.
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User reviews of Paint.NET 3.35
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 851 votes
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Paint.NET 3.35
Pros: Light on sources, a little more features than Microsoft Paint.
Kinda easy to use too.
Cons: NONE
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Paint.NET 3.35
Pros: Easy to use
Powerful
Cons: Nothing can really do as much as Photoshop. Not even this
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Version: Paint.NET 3.35
Pros: i like it which is better gimp or paint.net? to me there same to me just with less memory when installing
Cons: one thing need to connect to the internet when installing microst.net framwork no what verison it is that sucks since my inete is down on my laptop and i need to be connected to teh net to install the .net framwork big downside to me
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Paint.NET 3.35
"Excellent free alternative Paint application"
Pros: It's free
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Paint.NET 3.35
Pros: It is easy to draw and edit photos.
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