Paint.NET is image and photo editing software for PCs 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.
Paint.NET uses your hard drive to store temporary files related to undo/redo history. Because of this, actual disk space requirements will depend on the actions you perform on an image, and on the size of the image.
Paint.NET allows for easy expansion of features and file types through a plugin system. Many plugins are available. Examples of plugins include support for new type of file formats, drop shadows, coloring tools and photographic adjustments. There is even a plugin called CodeLab which is a plugin designed to create new plugins!
Content aware filling replaces the contents of the selection with pixels that are the closest match in the areas outside the selection. This allows parts of an image to be removed and blended with the background. This plugin is based on the GIMP Resynthesizer plugin. Compatibility: 5.1.4+ Menu lo...
A DDS FileType plugin that allows Paint.NET to open and save the the some of formats introduced in DirectX 10 and later. Compatibility: Paint.NET 5.1.1+. This plugin is bundled with Paint.NET 4.2.2 and later. If you need the features from a newer version you can still install the plugin. The plug...
This is a simple maintenance release that mostly fixes a few small bugs, and updates the bundled DDS FileType plugin. Get the Update There are two releases of Paint.NET: Microsoft Store release (recommended) You can purchase it here. This helps fund development and is an alternative or supplement...
Unattended Installation Paint.NET supports unattended installation so Paint.NET can be installed without user interaction. There are two facilities provided for unattended installation: MSI-Based Deployment is designed for use with Active Directory and Group Policy in order to install Paint.NET on multiple user systems on an administrated network.
This plugin allows HEIC images to be loaded and saved with transparency, and adds a few more options when saving. It replaces Paint.NET's built-in HEIC support. This plugin may produce smaller files than Microsoft's encoder for grayscale images. For most color images Microsoft's encoder is faster...
The plugin is located in the Effects > Object submenu. For installation, copy the dll into the Effects folder. Start Paint.net and check the presence of the plugin.
