When people thinks about photo and image editing, only one name first comes to mind (at least for me), It’s Adobe Photoshop. But it’s heavy, pricey commercial product. What if you can get major of it’s functionality at free of cost under Windows? Cool eh? Here’s the solution Paint .NET written completely in Microsoft .NET
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers 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. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, andplugins.
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 Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel®Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.
It boasts these major features
- Simple, intuitive, and innovative user interface
- Layers
- Active Online Community
- Frequently Updated (updates every 4-8 weeks)
- Special Effects
- Powerful Tools – Splines, Curves, Bezier, magic wand, clone stamp, gradient etc…
- Unlimited History
- Free!
- Other variant you can try for free is The GIMP. It’s also an excellent photo editing tool.