Paint.NET includes simple tools for drawing shapes, including an easy-to-use curve tool for drawing splines or Bezier curves. The Gradient tool has been cited as an innovative improvement over similar tools provided by other software. The facilities for creating and working with selections is powerful, yet still simple enough to be picked up ...
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 documentation | Overview/FeaturesRevision Date: 23 August 2025 Overview/Features Paint.NET 5 is the best free image and photo editing application for Windows based PCs since Paint.NET 4. The application has been extensively rebuilt to improve functionality and ease of use while packing numerous new features into the now familiar user interface (UI). Paint.NET 5 works exclusively on ...
The Paint.NET installer will decompress the files necessary for installation. Extracting the installation files Once extraction is complete, the actual installation of the application will begin: Installation There are two installation options; Express and Custom. For most users, the "Express" install with default options should suffice.
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...
paint.net 4.2.15 - released on January 24th, 2021 This is a small update that improves some quality-of-life issues, and fixes some important crashes due to mishandling of some non-fatal DirectX errors.
Download the installer from the website. This is the recommended download if you don't have Paint.NET installed. It can also be used to update the app. If you already have it installed, you should be offered the update automatically within the next few days, but you can also get it immediately by going to ⚙ Settings -> Updates -> Check Now.
This update is mostly a hotfix that fixes installation on Windows Server systems. 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 to sending in a donation. In additi...
This fixes the rare crash I mentioned in the previous build (5.1 beta build 9000). Soon I'll be able to start looking into a host of smaller issues now that the big rendering, presentation, and performance issues are out of the way (knock on wood!). Download and Install This build is available vi...
