After using many different image and photo editors over the years including other free ones like GIMP but also commercial applications like Adobe Photoshop I discovered one that I have been using ever since. Paint.net is an image editor for the Windows operating system which combines the attributes that I value the most: Speed and Ease of use. Most of the other image editors that I tried out where slow to load and quite complex to use. Not so Paint.net which loads up almost as fast as the default Windows Paint application but offers a lot that Paint does not offer.
Is it comparable to Gimp or Adobe Photoshop? I honestly cannot say so and do not care the least. It allows me to do the image editing things that I need to do which are basic image manipulations, e.g. resizing, copying, pasting, and basic editing.
Paint.net 3.5 final was released today. Users who are interested in the changes in this release can take a look at the post over at the official blog to find out more about them. Those that do not care about that can download the latest version of the image editor from the developer’s website where it is available for all supported operating systems (Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7) and languages. Paint.net, as the name suggests, requires the Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 SP1.
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Paint.net is a great piece of software, while it doesn’t offer the same options as photoshop, it functions perfectly for those that don’t need the tools of a professional graphic designer.
my opinion, better than gimp anyday.
Paint.NET is very good. It is just such a pitty that it does not support Photoshop-compatible filters and plugins. There is a megazillion of them out there, and some such as Alien Skin’s “Smart Fill” really speed up tasks immensely. Therefore I still stick with JASC’s Paint Shop Pro 7.04. The later versions by Corel turned regretfully into practically unusable bloatware. PSP 5 btw. makes due to its small footprint, speed and simplicity a perfect Windows-Paint replacement, with enough features, such as layer support., to achieve even more advanced tasks,