Simpleintuitiveand 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 easilyPaint.NET uses a
tabbed document
interface. The tabs display a live thumbnail of the
image instead of a text description. This makes
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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 CPUsGPUsand NVMe SSDs. The use of
DXGI Flip Model ensures low input latency and reduced power consumption. Whether you have a
power-conscious laptop or a monstrous desktop with a gigantic GPUyou can expect Paint.NET
to start up immediatelyrespond quickly to every mouse clickand take full advantage of all
of your hardware. |
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Layers
Usually only found on expensive or complicated 
professional softwarelayers form the basis for a rich
image composition experience. You may think of them as a
stack of transparency slides thatwhen viewed together
at the same timeform one image. |
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Pen and Drawing Tablet Support
Back by popular demandPaint.NET 5.0 now supports pressure sensitivity with
compatible pens and drawing tablets from WacomUGEE
Microsoftand 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 formatsincluding: PNGJPEGJPEG XL
AVIFHEICWebPJPEG XRBMPGIFTIFFDDSTGAand 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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Color Management Support
Paint.NET now has full color management supporta feature commonly found in more expensive or complicated imaging software.
This ensures that images with embedded color profiles look the way they're supposed toas originally captured by a camera
or as intended by the author. The use of Windows Advanced Color means that Paint.NET can use the full color gamut of your
monitorauthentically displaying images that use color spaces such as Display P3.
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Active Online Community
Paint.NET has an
online forum with a friendlypassionateand
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 featuresperfo rmance
improvementsand bug fixes. If you are using the Microsoft Store releaseupdating
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 blurringsharpening
red-eye removaldistortionnoiseand 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 brightnesscontrasthuesaturation
curvesand levels. You can also convert an image to
black and whiteor 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 powerfulyet still simple enough to
be picked up quickly. Other powerful tools include the
Magic Wand for selecting regions of similar colorand
the Clone Stamp for copying or erasing portions of an
image. There is also a simple text editora tool for
zoominga Recolor tooland an extensible Shapes tool,
among others. |
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Unlimited History
Everybody makes mistakesand everybody changes their
mind. To  accommodate thisevery action you
perform on an image is recorded in the History window
and may be undone. Once you've undone an actionyou can
also redo it. The length of the history is only limited
by available disk space. |
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