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The Ghost of Inept Pig

Posted: Dec 14 2004, 10:46

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Although I've not used it personally (I'm happy with my copy of Photoshop Elements at this moment in time, thanks) - Paint.net has been recommended to me as a free replacement for the rather poor Paint package that comes with Windows.

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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.

Paint.NET has many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers. This is the second semester that Paint.NET has been a project at Washington State University, and we have the goal of adding as much functionality as expensive commercial applications provide, but of course, for free! In the spirit of all this freedom, we welcome any suggestions, as well as provide the source code free of charge for anyone who wishes to tinker with it. Please explore this website, download the software and try out many of the things you would do on those expensive commercial applications.

Another free art program that you may wish to try is GIMP - although I didn't get on too well with that one.

DanMaggot

Posted: Dec 14 2004, 12:07

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It looks interesting though I'm a little alarmed by

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WSU is developing Paint.NET under mentorship from Microsoft.

but you shouldn't let that put you off it if you're looking for an alternative free paint program.

Spook Tooth	Posted: Dec 14 2004, 20:02
Neurthul Group: Admin Posts: 900 Member No.: 3 Joined: 31-March 03	Am a little puzzled as to why it requires micro$oft's .net framework. :blink:

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