It is, without a doubt, one of the best free tools you can find. You can also edit the color properties of images by adjusting brightness, saturation, contrast. Paint.Net supports many formats, including some of the most well-known ones like BMP, PNG, TIFF, JPG, and GIF, as well as including many post-processing tools that can be used to get professional results: blurring, red eye reduction, bevel, perspective, noise, etc. and yet, it's still an extremely useful tool for drawing pixel art, and can equally be used for retouching photos or even for working with digital drawings. CodeLab is a free (as in free beer) development.

Paint.Net can't even be compared to the famous picture editor from Microsoft, as it is a complete and compact multipurpose image editing suite with endless features that put it at the top of its category.Īmong its features, you'll find many that other powerful suites like Photoshop include, such as layers, history so you can undo actions, advanced filters, professional tool bars. Most Paint.NET plugins are written in C and most plugin authors polled prefer CodeLab for plugin development.

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