Freeware of the Moment- Paint .NET 2.5 RC2
Paint.NET is simply the best free alternative to Photoshop and the recently released version 2.5 Rc2 earns it a repeat spot on my Freeware of the Moment list. The developers have added so many new features to this new version that it would require a very long list so you should just go look at the Paint.NET web site. Here’s a partial list:
- Much faster performance and lower memory usage
- Full flexibility for scaling, rotating, moving, and modifying selections and selected pixels
- Internationalization (I18N) support
- Officially available in German
- Curve tool
- Full support for working with measurements in inches and centimeters
- 3D Rotate / Zoom effect
- Radial Blur and Add Noise effects
- Sepia adjustment
- Improved Text Tool, including higher quality font rendering
- GIF transparency support
- TGA file format support
- Greater extensibility with a brand new File Format API
- Simpler, faster setup wizard
- Update manager simplifies getting the latest version
- Cleaner user interface with none of the annoying flickering of past releases
This program quite simply rocks!
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For myself, I’m not touching anything based on .net technology (aside from at my workplace, where I cant avoid it or do some experimenting with).
It’s unstable, laggish, heavy, and basically sucks. :) It’s exactly like JAVA for windows!