Paint.NET is an image and photo manipulation application. Every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance. In order to handle multiple images easily, Paint.NET uses a tabbed document interface. The tabs display a live thumbnail of the image instead of a text description. This makes navigation very simple and fast.
Usually only found on expensive or complicated professional software, layers form the basis for a rich image composition experience. You may think of them as a stack of transparency slides that, when viewed together at the same time, form one image.
Many special effects are included for enhancing and perfecting your images. Everything from blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing are included. Also included is our unique 3D Rotate/Zoom effect that makes it very easy to add perspective and tilting.
Adjustments are also included which help you tweak an image"s brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, curves, and levels. You can also convert an image to black and white, or sepia-toned.
Paint.NET 4.0.20 Beta changelog:
- New: Dark Theme. See blog post
- New: NET Framework 4.7 is required, and will be automatically installed if needed. See blog post.
- New: Explorer thumbnails now work for TGA and DDS file types
- Improved: High DPI layout, especially for 200% scaling and above
- Fixed: a lot of High DPI bugs, especially in Levels and Save Palettes
- Fixed: Color Picker tool was not always honoring the "Switch to previous tool" setting
- Fixed: a data loss bug when saving very large images (greater than 4GB): https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/111823-large-image-save-bug/
- Fixed: Plugins will no longer crash the app on Windows 10 S (note, however, that plugins other than custom Shapes do not work on Windows 10 S)
Download: Paint.NET 4.0.19 | 6.9 MB (Freeware)
Download: Paint.NET 4.0.20 Beta
Links: Paint.NET Website