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.
Paint.NET uses your hard drive to store temporary files related to undo/redo history. Because of this, actual disk space requirements will depend on the actions you perform on an image, and on the size of the image.
Paint.NET includes simple tools for drawing shapes, including an easy-to-use curve tool for drawing splines or Bezier curves. The Gradient tool has been cited as an innovative improvement over similar tools provided by other software. The facilities for creating and working with selections is powerful, yet still simple enough to be picked up ...
Paint.NET allows for easy expansion of features and file types through a plugin system. Many plugins are available. Examples of plugins include support for new type of file formats, drop shadows, coloring tools and photographic adjustments. There is even a plugin called CodeLab which is a plugin designed to create new plugins!
This update is mostly a hotfix that fixes installation on Windows Server systems. Get the Update There are two releases of Paint.NET: Microsoft Store release (recommended) You can purchase it here. This helps fund development and is an alternative or supplement to sending in a donation. In additi...
A DDS FileType plugin that allows Paint.NET to open and save the the some of formats introduced in DirectX 10 and later. Compatibility: Paint.NET 5.1.1+. This plugin is bundled with Paint.NET 4.2.2 and later. If you need the features from a newer version you can still install the plugin. The plug...
This is a simple maintenance release that mostly fixes a few small bugs, and updates the bundled DDS FileType plugin. Get the Update There are two releases of Paint.NET: Microsoft Store release (recommended) You can purchase it here. This helps fund development and is an alternative or supplement...
Paint.NET doesn't really know what to do with these for some of its theme colors, and this allows folks to set a color that is comfortable for their eyes and lighting conditions. Contrast. Sometimes when you're editing an image, the drop shadow can trick your eyes into thinking the image is a slightly different size than it actually is.
Content aware filling replaces the contents of the selection with pixels that are the closest match in the areas outside the selection. This allows parts of an image to be removed and blended with the background. This plugin is based on the GIMP Resynthesizer plugin. Compatibility: 5.1.4+ Menu lo...
