Paint.NET is free image creation and editing software written in the C# programming language under the .Net 2.0 framework. It was originally an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows. It is now being actively developed into a fully featured image manipulation program similar to Adobe Photoshop.
It has its own extension, PDN, standing for "Paint Dot Net".
Features
- Layers
- Custom filter editor and compiler
- Unlimited history
- Clone stamp
- 3D Rotate/Zoom effect
- Curve tool for drawing splines or Bézier curves
- Sophisticated Gradient tool
- Drawing arrow tool
- Color correction
- Red-eye removal tool
- Translucent panels
- Free-form shape tool
- Magic wand
- Fractals