Sunday, January 28, 2007
Paint.net: Now You Can Uninstall Photoshop?
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "SOFTWARE" @ 08:00 AM
"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."
Honestly, this program is one of the finest pieces of freeware code that I have ever seen. I don't know if I can throw Photoshop out yet, but this program pretty much does all of the basic and medium features that Photoshop can do and most advanced things. I guess my only beef with it would be that it doesn't deal with RAW files. Plus, it seems to be a tiny, tiny bit sluggish. However, that may just be because my laptop is being slow right now. Let me know what you think.
Honestly, this program is one of the finest pieces of freeware code that I have ever seen. I don't know if I can throw Photoshop out yet, but this program pretty much does all of the basic and medium features that Photoshop can do and most advanced things. I guess my only beef with it would be that it doesn't deal with RAW files. Plus, it seems to be a tiny, tiny bit sluggish. However, that may just be because my laptop is being slow right now. Let me know what you think.
