"Paint.NET is just about perfect ..."-
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"It raises the quality bar," - Jeff Atwood,
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About 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.
Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation
in the United States and other countries.
Adobe and
Photoshop are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems
Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries.
Corel and Paint Shop Pro are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Corel Corporation and/or its subsidiaries in Canada, the
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5.0.13
English, Belarusian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Czech,
Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean,
Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal),
Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
Released on March 5th, 2024
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