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Fourth in my countdown of favorite, must-have freeware applications. Check out the previous review.
Adobe’s Photoshop is a fantastic program that costs a lot of money. It has a lot of features that I don’t care for and I would not be surprised if you can minor in “Photoshop” at some university because of its power and complexity.
So that’s why I like [tag]Paint.NET[/tag]. This [tag]freeware[/tag] allows me to have a lot of the popular Photoshop tools (for example, creating layers), without all the pork that might come with Photoshop and without the hit on my wallet.
I don’t use Paint.NET for everything, but when I need to do some editing of a photograph that some of the ’simpler’ programs can’t do, Paint.NET is my go to program. I like the functionality of layers–though it did take me a while to figure out how they work–and some of the functionalities like the magic wand, that is a powerful tool to select elements of a photograph or image.
Saving pictures in various formats is supported but limited compared to what Photoshop offers. Is Photoshop a more powerful program? Yes. Does Paint.NET have limitations that will make you want more from your [tag]photo editing[/tag] program? Probably. But for a software that is dubbed freeware, this is a fantastic program. You can’t beat the functionality and cost of this program.
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I’ve used Photoshop Elements for the past year or so. It’s a stripped-down version of Photoshop for under $100 and it does everything I need it to. I love it. Do you know how Paint.Net compares to Photoshop Elements? Is it less powerful or somewhere between Photoshop and Elements?
Sorry Tyler, I don’t know anything about Photoshop Elements. If Elements is similar to Photoshop, then you’ll have no problem “figuring out” paint.net. It’s a free program, so you can download it and see how it compares.
Crazy another Tyler
Anywho, that little black and white/colour rendition you have got there is pretty cool!
I use Photoshop but a few people here at work use GIMP which I believe is Freeware and is almost as powerful as Photoshop
I’ll have to check out Paint.net though.
Tyler I., I have used GIMP as well, and I remember I did enjoy using it. I don’t know how it compares to paint.net