Monday, November 9, 2009

Dope Sheit: Paint.Net Updates



Unless your running virtualization on your Mac, it’s Windows only. I use PhotoShop because I don’t have to pay for it. Paint.net is one of the first things after AVG I install on any Windows box I set up for family or friends. Paint.net is a free, fast, and powerful image editor for Windows. It’s a huge step up from Microsoft Paint, and a serious alternative to bigger, bloated (for most users, at least) image editors like Photoshop or GIMP if your running a Linux box.

Paint.net handles most of the basics you’d expect from advanced image editors, and the update has added new effects (including new blurs and distortions), better performance (though Paint.net has always been really light and fast), and a complete refresh of the user interface (enhanced for Aero/glass). Check it out, it’s worth the time. If you need to do the occasional image tweaking or heavy image editing but don’t want to spend a lot of cash on Photoshop or dive into GIMP, Paint.net is well worth the download. It may not be able to do everything Photoshop does, but it can do everything most users need (me not included). Did I mention Paint.net is 100% FREE!

courtesy of Fatlace

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