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About Paint.net
Paint.NET is image and photo editing software for PCs
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 plugins.
It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft,
and is now maintained and developed by Rick Brewster. Originally intended as a free replacement for
the Microsoft
Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo
editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe®
Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.
- Microsoft Store App Awards Winner 2022, Creativity - Graphics and 3D
- "Paint.NET is just about perfect ..."- Lifehacker
- "Impressive." - PC World, Top 100 Products of 2007
- "It raises the quality bar," - Jeff Atwood, Stack Overflow co-founder, on Coding Horror
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Tutorials
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subsequent discussion of those tutorials.
Plugins
This is where you can download new effect,
adjustment, and file type plugins.
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