Features
Simple, intuitive, and innovative user interface
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. |
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Performance: It's fast. Really fast.
Extensive work has gone into making Paint.NET the fastest image editor
available. Starting the app is nearly instantaneous and every feature has been thoroughly
optimized to take advantage of the latest multicore CPUs, GPUs, and NVMe SSDs. Whether you have a
power-conscious laptop or a monstrous desktop with a gigantic GPU, you can expect Paint.NET
to start up immediately, respond quickly to every mouse click, and take full advantage of all
of your hardware. |
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Layers
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. |
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Pen and Drawing Tablet Support
Back by popular demand, Paint.NET 5.0 now supports pressure sensitivity with
compatible pens and drawing tablets from Wacom, UGEE,
Microsoft, and more. This enables you to draw beautiful,
natural-looking brush strokes. |
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Comprehensive File Format Support
Paint.NET supports a wide variety of popular and
standard file formats, including: JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF,
TIFF, DDS, TGA, HEIC, AV1 (AVIF), WebP, JPEG XR, and of
course PDN (Paint.NET's native image type that supports
layers). Support for more file types can be added with
plugins. |
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Active Online Community
Paint.NET has an
online forum with a friendly, passionate, and
ever-expanding community.  Be
sure to check out the constantly growing list of
tutorials and plugins! |
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Automatically Updated
Updates are free and
contain new features, perfo rmance
improvements, and bug fixes. If you are using the Microsoft Store release, updating
is done in the background when you aren't using the app. For the "classic" release,
updates only take two clicks and can be installed when you're finished with your session.
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Special Effects
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. |
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Powerful Tools
Paint.NET includes simple tools for drawing shapes,
including an easy-to-use curve tool for drawing splines
or Bezier curves. The Gradient tool has
been cited as an innovative improvement over similar tools
provided by other software. The facilities for creating and working
with selections is powerful, yet still simple enough to
be picked up quickly. Other powerful tools include the
Magic Wand for selecting regions of similar color, and
the Clone Stamp for copying or erasing portions of an
image. There is also a simple text editor, a tool for
zooming, a Recolor tool, and an extensible Shapes tool,
among others. |
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Unlimited History
Everybody makes mistakes, and everybody changes their
mind. To  accommodate this, every action you
perform on an image is recorded in the History window
and may be undone. Once you've undone an action, you can
also redo it. The length of the history is only limited
by available disk space. |
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