PaintNET includes simple tools for drawing shapes, including an easy-to-use curve tool for drawing splines or Bezier curves.

Also included is the unique 3D Rotate/Zoom effect that makes it very easy to add perspective and tilting. Everything from blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing are included.

Many special effects are included for enhancing and perfecting your images. You may think of them as a stack of transparency slides that, when viewed together at the same time, form one image. Usually only found on expensive or complicated professional software, layers form the basis for a rich image composition experience. Whether you have a netbook with a power-conscious Atom CPU or a Dual Intel Xeon workstation with 8 blazingly fast processing cores, you can expect the app to start up quickly and be responsive to every mouse click. In order to handle multiple images easily, Paint.NET uses a tabbed document interface.Įxtensive work has gone into making Paint.NET the fastest image editor available. Simple, intuitive, and innovative user interfaceĮvery feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance. It has been compared to other digital photo editings software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and GIMP. 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 started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins. 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. Paint.NET is a free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows.

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