Paint.NET 3.35

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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.

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Editor's review of Paint.NET

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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  Paint.NET

  Wow! Excellent!!

  by: darthvador365 on 25-Jul-2008 09:17:00 AM

  Pros: Light on sources, a little more features than Microsoft Paint.

  Kinda easy to use too.

  Cons: NONE

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  Paint.NET

  Excellent free alternative Paint application

  by: dalmatianspots on 20-Jul-2008 12:25:04 PM

  Pros: It's free

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  Paint.NET

  Very easy to use.

  by: echomark on 24-Jul-2008 12:20:11 PM

  Pros: It is easy to draw and edit photos.

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  Paint.NET

  Nice to work with

  by: beyondtoday on 19-Jul-2008 11:27:02 PM

  Pros: I find this program has a lot of user friendly features that allow you to crop add some effects save in most file formats with very little is any lot of image detail it's compression abilities make this program idea for retouching images for email and web pages

  Cons: it gif file ability requires work along with it's overlay ( layering ) processes.

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  Paint.NET

  A little to complicated for me, find Picasso about my speed

  by: Richard1001 on 22-Jul-2008 07:06:33 AM

  Pros: Does a couple of things that lesser programs have trouble with, such as recognising some formats others don't and also much more detailed controls. It is much more like fairly expensive software in many ways.

  Cons: For a some time user it is to complicated to use, but no where as bad as the Gimp.

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