Lately I’ve been using Paint.NET for my image editing software for my eBay listings, my blog, and the forthcoming second revision to my eBook, Best Match Made Simple. It’s a free download available at http://www.getpaint.net.
As my wife is a semi-pro photographer, I have both Adobe Photoshop and Elements available to me to perform these functions. Of course they do them admirably, but I find the interface to these sophisticated programs complex and hard to use. Consequently, I’m often frustrated with the amount of time I waste trying to figure out how to do the simplest tasks such as adding a circle to an image in order to emphasize some aspect of that picture. I find accomplishing tasks that I commonly need for my eBay listings to be a snap in Paint.NET.
According the the project’s website, Paint.NET started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool.
If you find most of the free image and photo editing software too weak for your needs and the sophisticated paid software too expensive and/or complex, I recommend the free download Paint.NET.
Minimum System Requirements:
- Windows XP (SP2 or later),
or Windows Vista,
or Windows Server (2003 SP1 or later)
- .NET Framework 2.0 or newer (.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 recommended)
- 500 MHz processor (Recommended: 800 MHz or faster)
- 256 MB of RAM (Recommended: 512 MB or more)
- 1024 x 768 screen resolution
- 200+ MB hard drive space
- 64-bit support requires a 64-bit CPU that is running a 64-bit version of Windows, and an additional 128 MB of RAM
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