Paint.NET 3.5.6

Rated 40/50 by SabinoL at Feb 27, 2011

Powerful program. Easy to use. No cons to date.

Rated 50/50 by cimofj2 at Mar 2, 2011

Adjustment, Effect, & Tools really make this program! Effects Load Error Window is very useful. Could use an Effects Error correcting tool! It is about the ONLY Graphical Editor I will use. It exceeds all my needs!

Rated 50/50 by Homer Scarborough at Mar 2, 2011

I have used this program in many incarnations for several years, and it's ease of use is really good. I go to this one if I don't want or need the heavier attributes of photoshop. none for what it is. It is not supposed to be photoshop or even photoshop elements. Well worth the download and lots of add-ons on their site, some of which are really worthwhile, i.e., the cartoon filter which I have used, saved the image and then loaded it into photoshop for additional edits.

Rated 50/50 by retreaded at Mar 3, 2011

simple to use and user friendly I cannot fault the programme. It is all that it claims to be I have Paint Shop Pro and another that my Camera thrust upon me, but for 90% of what I do, Paint NET does the job. It is a great little programme! Best of all, it doesn't try to load me with other programmes that I do not want anyway!

Rated 40/50 by Rich Hanspire at Mar 5, 2011

Relatively easy to use Requires a fairly advanced level of knowledge about images Beat Elements or Photoshop

Rated 50/50 by MikeTechno at Mar 8, 2011

I absolutely love this program. I am a professional photographer and use Paint.net for editing on 95% of the shots that I take now. Sure, there are things that this program can't do and that you need a program like Photoshop for, but those are things that most people are likely to need to do only once in a great while (and maybe never). Since this program came out, I have (almost) stopped using Photoshop all together. This program is so much smaller, lighter, faster, less boated and easier to use than a huge editing applications like Photoshop, that unless there is a specific reason to have to do so, Paint.net is just a far better tool to use for nearly all of your editing needs, at just about every level. Well done!

Rated 50/50 by bronzetiger01 at Mar 15, 2011

This program offers many useful tools for creating original art and manipulating images. We use this program on top of all the Adobe creative suite software, and it is a flexible pocketknife of usefulness when dealing with art and images. Nothing comes to mind. This software should be found on every single computer and it has earned and deserves a space in every home. Paint.Net is a must have without doubt.

Rated 30/50 by beat_elite at Mar 27, 2011

FreeGood number of editing optionsfair amount of updatesEasy to understand interface Still doesn't stack up to photoshopNo maskingonly contains basic editing tools If you don't have photoshop in your home then I would definitely recommend this program to use. Paint is a very poor editing program and this improves upon it by a HUGE margin. With that being said it misses a lot of the options I love about photoshop such as easy masking and a better wand tool.Overall, if you need a photo editing program and all you need are the essential editing tools and none of the fancy stuff then I recommend you getting this.

Rated 40/50 by RosaTownsend at Mar 27, 2011

If you haven't money for PS this program is a good choice Interface is primitive and old-school . It looks like Photoshop 1 or 2.

Rated 50/50 by teetoncey at Apr 2, 2011

i've not used Photoshop, but I haven't run into anything that this can't do. Remove those objectional people from your old photos, splice cat heads onto dogs, etc. Nowhere near the support of PS; either ad hoc, or the massive literature avail/able for PS. An iMac user will have to have a Windows application (like Parallels Desktop) to run it. Some tools a bit slower and clunkier. Unless you're printing gigantic files for Nat'l Geog, this'll do anything you need it to do.

Rated 30/50 by Tracie365 at Apr 3, 2011

It adjusts reds better than a few other programs, but that's about the only thing. Not optimal for someone trying to get many pictures processed quickly. More geared for artsy purposes. Not very organized and not very user-friendly. Not set up in an organized manner, which might be fine for someone just dealing with one photo or two. However, if you need to process tons of photos quickly in an almost assembly line manner (like getting pics ready for a whole bunch of ebay listings), this program is a pain and not very optimal. I much prefer using Picnic online, which is soooo much faster and has the options set up perfectly for getting the job done quickly and in logical order: rotate, crop, resize, exposure, color, save (with automatic JPG conversion, if that's what you want) and the options of uploading directly to PhotoBucket, etc., in addition to saving to your computer. While Picnic may be my preference, there are still several other programs that are also more user-friendly, useful, and organized than Paint.NET, too; such as Image Analyzer or Fly Free.

Rated 40/50 by bassmam at Apr 5, 2011

Good set of tools and file formats the program behaves itself and meets my needs. no cons finally a paint program that is somewhere in the middle

Rated 50/50 by asus111 at May 4, 2011

i like it a lot! i like it... thank you very much!

Rated 30/50 by rj_at_boronia at May 9, 2011

Don't use - hope to one day - no time to review. Don't use - hope to one day - no time to review. Don't use - hope to one day - no time to review.

Rated 40/50 by Krahazik at May 15, 2011

Good versatility.Expand usability with plug-ins.Better than Photoshop for single pixel manipulations and tuning. Limited text capability.Limited capacity with graphic filters. This program should be the one included with windows instead of the basic paint program included. Its more versatile and usable that the basic one. Not as good as a high end program like Photoshop but it has its uses. I use both for most of my graphics work combining the advantages of both.