Hi members,
I have decided to launch a new Resources category dedicated for the best software picks. If you like it, do comment on them. I would be posting all free and open-source softwares for you so that pirated copies of software can be forgone from the PC and only genuine free copies are used. Hope this will be useful for all.
Paint.NET - Microsoft Paint on steroids
Category- Image Editor
Publisher- Rick Brewster
License- Free
Platform- Windows 
Official Website  - http://www.getpaint.net
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials and plugins. Popularly known as the mini-Photoshop, many who just want to do simple but yet good image editing, well they need not look further than this software. In fact, some people became such a huge fan of this that they left their Photoshop installations to use Paint.NET and work on it.
People who have mastered the default Paint bundled with Windows shouldn't have any problem in using Paint.NET. Most of the standard tools are the same including selection, lasso and shape tools. The ones which are new is the clone stamp tool and a huge amount of image effects in the Effects menu.
The Default Paint.NET workspace - Uses a clean and simple UI
Paint.NET also supports a wide variety of add-ons designed to make this a much more complete image editor which is free. The add-ons are created by individual developers and help in the growth of Paint.NET community. The software has won quite a lot of awards and innumerable amount of mentions in various place, both on the net and off the net. I have myself made quite a huge amount of creations and one of them is below.
The image has been made after using the lasso tool and selecting the individual image and then cutting it and pasting it as a new image
Some of my other creations include one for my friend which has been inspired by quite a lot of themes.
Inspired by many themes - created as a cover for St. Xaviers College's B.B.A. Departmental Magazine
There's even my movie collection if you wanna see it wholly made by Paint.NET.
And if you are wondering those icons came from, I created them in Paint.NET like the sample below.
The Dark Knight sample folder icon
I hope this proves to be a great software for you. It is indeed a great image editor, free and lots of plugins to customise it according to your mood. I don't think you are gonna get any deal better than this. Go download it right now and if you love it, do comment here too.
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 Ankush Das is a Windows and tech enthusiast and a Senior Editor at IndiaStudyChannel.com.
Tech has been his hobby for a long time and is involved in lots of tech forums helping members with problems.
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| Author: Vijay 19 Oct 2009 | Member Level: Diamond Points : 1 |
This will be very helpful to us. Really i love this freeware. Thank you providing this Resource. Keep writing new articles like these freeware software. Thank you.
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| Author: Mahesh 19 Oct 2009 | Member Level: Platinum Points : 1 |
Excellent knowledge sharing Ankush!!
Really, this is very useful resource and you provided it with your own collections.
All the best & Keep it up..~~~~~!!
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