Paint.NET Description
Paint.NET is an image and photo editing program for Windows-based PCs. It has an intuitive user interface that is easy to use, with the ability to add layers, undo unlimitedly, special effects, as well as a variety of powerful and useful tools. A growing online community offers tutorials, help, and plugins. It was developed as a senior college design project mentored and supported by Microsoft. Rick Brewster now maintains and develops it. It was originally intended to be a replacement for Microsoft Paint, but it has evolved into a powerful and simple image and photo editing tool. It has been compared with other digital photo editing software packages like Corel Paint Shop Pro®, Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor and The GIMP. Paint.NET is a cost-effective option to expensive commercial software.
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Summary: A very solid freeware image editing software. I vastly prefer this over the closest freeware competitor, Gimp. Especially in terms of ease-of-use and user interface. In terms of comparing this to professional software such as Adobe Photoshop, this software naturally has less features but for many tasks provides a much cheaper and easier platform to edit images.
Positive: I have used this tool for over 10 years. While graphic design is not my area, I do some minor graphical work and editing for my projects and also utilize this tool to review in greater detail the work of my developers who focus on graphic assets. The software represents a great middle ground between simple editors such as MS Paint and paid for expensive tools like Adobe Photoshop.
Compared to Adobe Photoshop two features I love is the ability to natively load .DDS files which is not natively supported in Photoshop. DDS files are heavily utilized in my projects, so this is a major benefit. The other is that Paint.Net while having less features, is much easier to use and has a much easier to learn user interface than Adobe Photoshop.Negative: The software lacks some of the features of other more advanced image editing software such as Adobe Photoshop. That said, this is a freeware tool, and given Photoshop is not this is more than understandable.
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