Paint.NET

Description

Paint.NET is a free image and photo editor for Microsoft Windows. It is one of the "oldest", mature and highly appreciated graphic apps.

If you can't afford Adobe Photoshop or Corel Paint Shop Pro and don't like GIMP because of its learning curve, you might want to try this gorgeous software. It is an excellent alternative. You can use it for various tasks such as adding special effects, resizing, cropping and rotating images, and adjusting colors, with excellent support for unlimited undo and layers. Furthermore, there's a whole community working on various plugins (for example, plugins that add support for more file types), and there are literally hundreds of plugins that extend the capabilities of this application. Whenever you need help, just take a look at the forum section or read the excellent tutorials (start with beginner tutorials).

Paint.NET Features

• Easy to use, intuitive user interface, handle multiple images easily through its tabbed document interface
• Friendly online community that will provide help
• Support for many effects such as noise, distortion, blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, embossing etc
• Includes some unique effects such as the 3D rotate/zoom effect
• Convert images to sepia-toned or black and white
• Adjustments to manipulate an image's saturation, contrast, curves, hue, levels and brightness
• Powerful tools for drawing shapes, drawing bezier curves or splines, recoloring and zooming
• Select regions of similar color with the Magic Wand, and use the Clone Stamp to copy or erase portions of an image
• Unlimited undo and redo function (you are limited only by your hard drive space)
• Optimized to take advantage of multicore CPUs, GPUs and NVMe SSDs