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Paint.NET: The Anti-GIMP?

Posted by timothy on from the translucent-tools-are-smart dept.

Arno contributes a link to Paint.NET, a free-of-charge raster-graphics program for Windows XP machines. "Quote: 'Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP. Paint.NET is jointly developed at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft, and is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with GDI+ extensions.' It really seems like a nice tool. I definitely prefer its UI to GIMP's."

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  1. Mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I managed to grab a mirror if needed. Site kinda seemed slow, especially for a .edu domain.

  2. good job /. by the+right+sock · · Score: 5, Informative

    75gb

    dev, with mirror link: http://blogs.msdn.com/rickbrew/

  3. Looks like it's Open Source. Cool. by stephenb · · Score: 5, Informative

    BSD-like License: http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/legal.html

  4. Re:A few questions about it.. by TheAwfulTruth · · Score: 5, Informative

    1) Yes.
    2) No.
    3) It's open source.
    4) See #3 and because all /. headlines have to have inflamitory and misleading headlines to attract attention for some reason.

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  5. Re:It's a .NET product. Ewwww... by Adhemar · · Score: 5, Informative
    Why should I install more badly designed MS software then I have too?

    You don't.

    First of all, the .NET framework is not badly designed. It's one of the best-designed products Microsoft ever came up with. The reason Microsoft released so much crap over the years, is probably because all their best programmers were working on .NET.

    Secondly, their exist free (as in free software) alternatives. Mono is the best-known one, an other is DotGNU Portable.NET. But they're not 100 % complete yet, so I don't know if this Paint.NET will work.

  6. Re:here here by benjcurry · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ummm...I use the GIMP every day. I'm a website developer and graphic designer. I like Photoshop better than the GIMP, but other than some less-than-perfect GUI issues, I love the GIMP as well.

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  7. Re:Here it comes. by John+Hansen · · Score: 5, Informative
    I don't understand this permanent woody for boxes in boxes, the non-Photoshop world abandonded that GUI a decade ago.

    Even Photoshop never used that clunky interface originally. The Photoshop MDI originated from the fact that on the Macintosh, Photoshop looked a lot more like the GIMP -- except that the menubar was on top, mac-related stuff, etc. However, the Photoshop programming team didn't want to figure out how to do that on Windows, so they simply made a "container window" to hold everything.

    Since then, a number of programs have emulated that, even though they never had to. It was simply a hack to get around a Mac-->Windows porting problem.