paint.NET is a free image editing and photo manipulation software for Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface. It supports layers, unlimited undo special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.
paint.NET started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software, it has grown into a powerful yet simple photo and image editing tool.
An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
Compare Paint-NET to other digital photo editing software packages. Such as Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.
You can use Paint.NET to enhance and clean up your photographs. Using the Clone Stamp tool, you can carefully remove the power lines crisscrossed in front of the Space Needle. Every feature and user interface element is immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance.
Powerful Tools
Paint.NET contains easy tools for drawing shapes, together with an easy-to-use curve tool for drawing splines or Bezier curves. The Gradient tool has been cited as an enormous enhancement over comparable tools supplied by a different software program. The services for creating and dealing with picks are highly effective, but easily sufficient to be picked up rapidly. Other highly effective tools embody the Magic Wand for choosing areas of comparable shade and the Clone Stamp for copying or erasing parts of a picture. There can be an easy textual content editor, a tool for zooming, and a Recolor tool.
Unlimited History
Everybody makes errors, and all people adjust their minds. To accommodate this, each motion you carry out on a picture is recorded within the History window and could also be undone. Once you’ve undone a motion, you can too redo it.
Special Effects
paint.NET has effects such as blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing. Also included is a unique 3D Rotate, Zoom effect that makes it very easy to add perspective and tilting. The app also has included Adjustments. They help you tweak an image’s brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, curves, and levels. You can also convert an image to black and white, or sepia-toned.
Changes in paint.NET 5.0.2
- New Adjustment: Invert Alpha
- Greatly improved performance for some distortion effects (Bulge, Crystalize, Dents, Frosted Glass)
- Improved performance with large images, especially when making small/quick edits
- Fixed keyboard tabbing between the Width and Height text boxes in the toolbar when using Fixed Ratio or Fixed Size with the Rectangle Select tool
- Fixed the Bokeh blur effect’s handling of the alpha channel for images with transparency
- Fixed the keyboard up/down increments for the Offset property in the Drop Shadow effect
- Fixed compatibility with the Lightning effect plugin
- Fixed compatibility with the ApplyTexture effect plugin
- Removed keyboard shortcuts for Image -> Rotate 90° Counter-clockwise and Rotate 180°
- Updated the bundled AvifFileType plugin to version 1.1.24.0 (thanks @null54!)
- Updated the bundled DDSFileTypePlus plugin to version 1.11.1.0 (thanks @null54!)
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows 11 or Windows 10 (version 1809 or newer)
- A 64-bit CPU (Intel/AMD x64 or ARM64)
- Optional: A pen or drawing tablet that supports Windows Ink
- Recommended: A 64-bit CPU that supports AVX2
- Recommended: A GPU or APU that supports Direct3D 11, such as an NVIDIA GeForce, AMD Radeon, Intel Arc, Intel Iris (Plus or Xe), or Intel HD/UHD
Size: 61.6 MB
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