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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. MONO? by jj110888 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So, um, isn't this the kind of thing we can run under mono without having to deal with wine regressions? Didn't M$ just help linux and windows users alike here by using .net?

  2. Re:Here it comes. by stupidfoo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Speaking of nice features: the lasso-select in this thing is pretty kick ass. Does any other software have similar real time highlighting of the selected area for the lasso?

  3. Re:here here by picklepuss · · Score: 4, Interesting

    same here

    Except, I'm starting to use the GIMP even more than Photoshop lately. I guess I'm just getting more comfortable with it.

    I still don't understand why everyone has so many problems with the interface. Makes me think people are just re-hashing old horror stories from before 2.0. To me it behaves just like any other application.