Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with a small amount of C++ for installation and shell-integration related functionality.
Paint.NET is freeware, but the team is accepting donations here.
Latest changes:
- Changed: When using a selection mode other than “replaceâ€, it will now draw the selection outline so that you can see both the original and resulting selection areas. Before, it would only draw the resulting selection area outline, which made modes such a
- Changed: The canvas background is now a solid color instead of a gradient. The gradient was causing certain tone misjudgments related to bright versus dark colors
- Changed: Shortcut key for Sepia is now Ctrl+Shift+E. The shortcut for Posterize is now Ctrl+Shift+P
- New: When holding Ctrl or Alt for a selection tool, the cursor now has a plus or minus indicator
- Fixed: The Resize dialog had some rounding errors with the “Maintain aspect ratio†feature, which caused a few discrepancies and even a spurious “out of memory†error
- Fixed: Some quirks with the Color Wheel control for IndirectUI-based effect plugins
- Fixed: Several miscellaneous and rare crashes
- Fixed: The installer would display a bizarre error if a “blank†install folder was attempted
- Fixed: The installer now only accepts absolute path locations, instead of relative ones. This fixes an ambiguity between where Paint.NET believes it is installing itself to, and the directory that Windows Installer actually uses
