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Softpedia Editor's Review for Paint.NET
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A handy image and photo customization software
Written by Bogdan Popa on February 9th, 2012
Regardless of the sill level of users, everybody needs to have a graphic editor installed on their computer. Experts commonly prefer Photoshop, provided they can afford to purchase a license, or they can try a freeware app called Paint.NET. Without trying to replace Adobe's software, this utility brings almost all the features one might require to generate professional-looking designs and attractive projects.
Before installing Paint.NET, one needs to make sure they have a recent version of .NET Framework installed, otherwise, the setup process will also include it. There are two modes of installation, Quick and Custom, the first one advisable for the beginner users, while the latter is more likely to be chosen by the experts.
File associations can be easily made, thus making Paint.NET the default software for opening (and subsequently editing) graphic files on the computer. It should be mentioned that even if it is not the default app, all supported formats can still be processed from within the main window of the application.
It takes some time for Paint.NET to finish installing, but once it completes, users are met with a clean and well-organized interface, that requires some time getting used to in order to operate it successfully. Novices surely appreciate the multitude of buttons that can perform both basic functions like cut, crop or rotate, as well as more advanced ones as color picking, clone stamping or overlaying a new layer.
One of the features experts find especially handy is the full keyboard support, meaning that all actions can be completed by pressing dedicated hotkeys, thus reducing the time it would take locating the appropriate menu or button.
Experimenting with the menus reveal additional adjustments and effects that can be applied to enhance any artistic project: layer editing, invert colors, posterize, image sketch, blur or sharpen, distort, emboss or even fractals.
To sum it up, any graphic expert needs to take Paint.NET for a spin at least once, to analyze its large array of features and chances are they decide to use on a regular basis.  Read an in-depth analysis in our professional review for Paint.NET
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Paint.NET description
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Here are some key features of "Paint.NET":
Simple, intuitive user interface:
· Every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance. It is also designed to be immediately familiar to users of the original MS Paint software that comes with Windows.
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.
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 a huge 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, and a Recolor tool.
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.
Special Effects:
· Many special effects are included for perfecting your images. Everything from blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing are included. Also included is a 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.
Requirements:
· .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
· 800MHz processor
· 512MB of RAM
· 1024 x 768 screen resolution
· 200+ MB hard drive space
· 64-bit support requires a 64-bit CPU
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Fixed: Ctrl+Shift+A now works again as a shortcut for View -> Actual Size (broken in 3.5.9)
· Fixed: Ctrl+0 still works for View -> Actual Size even if 10 or more images are open (broken in 3.5.9, it would switch to the 10th image).
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