The graphical picture editor Paint.NET, developed by Microsoft and the Washington State University using the Microsoft .NET Framework programming platform. The raster graphics app provides a simple editor alternative to Microsoft Paint. The software evolved and integrated many professional features as well. Paint has a great developer and community support and is the most common freeware graphics editor for windows available today.
History of Paint.NET
Initially, Paint.NET was started as a simple student project by Rick Brewster in 2004, who claimed that the main application version 1.0 was developed within 4 months containing 36,000 lines of written C# source code using the Microsoft .NET Framework. All features of Microsoft Paint and Paintbrush have been re-implemented and made available as freeware application for everyone to download and install.
Further releases and milestones of Paint.NET Development came rapidly with Version 1.1 and 2.0 in Brewser’s autumn semester.
Today, the development team consists out of 3 developers who all work for Microsoft by now. Next feature releases are planned and rolled out soon.
Paint Download
| For Windows: | 7-Zip File Archiver | |
| For Mac OS X: | Coming soon | |
| For Linux: | Coming soon | |
| For Android: | Coming soon | |
| For iOS: | Coming soon |
Paint.net is completely free of use and will be updated regularly.