It has been compared to other digital photo editings software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and GIMP.

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. It 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. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. If you get a special plug-in, you can output directly to Wikimedia is a free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows. You can also email the results in JPEG, PNG, TIFF, WebP, PPM, PFM, and EXR. It is possible to import a wide range of RAW formats, JPEG, HDR, or PFM from a file carrier of any kind and then export to a variety of destinations starting from other carriers finishing with several applications like Picasa Web Albums. In the software, you will find ICC profiles and GPU acceleration, plus provided support for any known format. Any changes that you make are visible in real-time but laid over the original, the raster data of which is kept clear until you launch the rendering when exporting your perfectly finished outcome.

Like several other RAW-specific programs, this Paint.Net alternative operates on the principle of non-destructive editing. Carries out the search for similar photos.Allows shooting through the connected camera.

Paintdotnet