Best Free Digital Image Editor

A full featured Digital Editor such as Photoshop will cost you over $500. Unless you're a graphics designer you probably don't need a Ferrari. Paint.NET is the minivan of digital image editors and you have to like the price - FREE.

Paint.NET is an amazingly sophisticated piece of work from computer science students at Washington State University. It's not quite as powerful as Photoshop but it's a lot easier to use and install. It is however only for Windows 2000 and later.

http://GetPaint.NET/

"This program ... has actually made me uninstall Photoshop." - L3thal, Neowin.net Forum Moderator

"Paint.NET is a breath of fresh air." - User review

Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing.

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