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Suhit Gupta
01-28-2007, 04:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://getpaint.net/index2.html' target='_blank'>http://getpaint.net/index2.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Paint.NET is free image editing 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."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/pdn30_camaro_thumb.jpg" /><br /><br />Honestly, this program is one of the finest pieces of freeware code that I have ever seen. I don't know if I can throw Photoshop out yet, but this program pretty much does all of the basic and medium features that Photoshop can do and most advanced things. I guess my only beef with it would be that it doesn't deal with RAW files. Plus, it seems to be a tiny, tiny bit sluggish. However, that may just be because my laptop is being slow right now. Let me know what you think.

Jon Westfall
01-29-2007, 01:08 AM
I've been using this for about a month now, and have been very impressed. On "virgin" photoshop-less systems I run, I download this first and see if it will do what I need before installing PS. And ya know what - it usually does! Pretty slick.

Kris Kumar
01-31-2007, 04:57 AM
It's slick looking and seems like has potential. I tried and compared the auto levels on Paint.NET and PS, I like the PS better.