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Packed with an array of options and an intuitive interface, this application enables you to create professional-looking photographs. #Image editor  #Resize image  #Photo editor  #Resize  #Layer  #Rotate  

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Paint.NET is a gorgeous application that includes many different photo and image editing options.

At the same time, this software solution is designed ergonomically, meaning it is stylish and efficient, having a multi-layer editing system, and customizable and placement-adjustable panels and tools.

When opening this application for the first time, you will be surprised to see a clean-, sleek-looking interface, where everything from commands, tools, painting instruments, editing features, and others are well placed within the overall editing panel.

When not used, all the additional panels (like editing history, color picker, etc.) automatically lower their opacity or can completely be taken out of the app's context menu (e.g. for those who have multi-monitor editing environments).

You can configure your layers' properties, their opacity levels, and blending mode (with a crazy amount of options).

With this application, you have an entire creative setup at hand. Why is that? Because you can install it, for example, on a Windows machine with a touch screen or connect a digital drawing tablet to your current machine. For increased performance, you can change your brushes' sensitivity, color, shape, texture, etc.

Also, you can edit real pictures, blend in shapes from real pictures with hand drawings or illustrations, make collages, add in assets, and generate beautifully styled designs.

The app even allows users to change their metric options; as such, you can choose between pixel view and centimeters or inches counts. Plus, there are a ton of editing effects and all can be customized and adjusted for your specific needs.

Regardless of your design needs or choices, Paint.NET is surely an application worth trying. It is extremely versatile, modern, intuitive, and has an ergonomic design that makes it perfect for both beginners and advanced photo editors, illustrators, etc.

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paint.net is part of these download collections: Edit PNG, Edit JPEG, PSD Viewer, Image Editors

What's new in paint.net 5.0.13 (5.13.8830.42291):

  • New: Latvian (lv) translation
  • Fixed the Colors window sometimes showing up at weird sizes if the system scaling (DPI) was changed between sessions
  • Fixed a crash in the Simulate Color Depth plugin (reported by @toe_head2001)
  • Updated the list of libraries/contributors in the About dialog with some libraries that got missed (mostly from Microsoft)
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