Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

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. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing.

The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with a small amount of C++ for installation and shell-integration related functionality.

What's new in Paint.NET v3.0?

• Simple and intuitive tab-based multi-document user interface
  
• Now available in 8 languages: English, Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish
  
• Interactive Gradient Tool that makes it very easy to draw and then fine-tune placement and coloring of a gradient
  
• User-definable color palette (as opposed to just the color wheel)
  
• New effects: Clouds, Median, Unfocus, Outline, and an improved Sharpen
  
• More intuitive and more powerful toolbar
  
• Generally improved and cleaner user interface
  
• History files are now compressed to save disk space, reduce disk activity, and improve performance
  
• "Merge Down" layer command

Please note that Windows 2000 is no longer supported. Paint.NET v3.0 will not install unless your operating system is Windows XP SP2 or newer. If you would like to use Paint.NET on Windows 2000, you will need to install Paint.NET v2.72 or earlier.

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3.01 is out
http://msfn.org/comments.php?shownews=19610

Paint.NET v3.0x

v3.01 Released: February 26th, 2007 - Download
This is a small update that fixes a few bugs that have been found since 3.0 was released.

* Fixed: Crash when trying to save a palette with a blank name
* Fixed: Changing an image's DPI resolution did not set its "dirty" flag (you would not be asked to save changes)
* Fixed: Error messages at startup were covered by the splash screen
* Fixed: Crash when a modal dialog was open (such as an effect) when the user tried to logoff/restart/shutdown Windows, and they chose to save their images
* Mitigated some CPU usage issues when the app was minimized and a complex selection was active


This post has been edited by samurai1337: Feb 27 2007, 07:12 AM

can i use this to replace MSPAINT

does it require ASP.NET framework

does it work on Windows 2003 ?

1. Definitely yes. A much stronger version of MSPAINT

2. .NET framework is required.

3. Yes, as long as your Win2003 is SP1 or above.

stronger. its like paint + crack cocaine.

It's free. I Like.

*OT*
Somehow I'm thinking MS will release Minesweeper.NET, Freecell.NET and Solitaire.NET after this.

by replacing,

i meant

Start > Run > mspaint = Paint.NET instead of mspaint.exe from system32 folder

thanks for the answers of the other 2 questions too

LOL, you can't do that.

But you can always assign Paint.NET in environment variable, so that whenever you type paintnet (or any name you wanna assign) in start->Run it will open Paint.NET for you

Read more about it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable