paint.net 2.5 (beta v)

[zack_rage]

hi
alternative for ms paint very useful for editing photo and images



Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, or Server 2003. It started development at Washington State University as an undergraduate senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. It is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with the Windows operating system. The programming languages used to create Paint.NET is C#. Some C++ is used for extending the Windows shell to present thumbnails for our native file format.
Paint.NET has many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers. We welcome any suggestions, and provide the source code for final releases under the MIT License. Please explore this website, download the software and try out many of the things you would do on those other expensive or complicated


features

Graphic Design

• Layers
• Near unlimited history (limited by disk space)
• Various Brushes
• Many special effects and adjustments

Photography

• Auto-Levels and manual Levels adjustments
• High quality bicubic and super sampling image resizing
• Magic Wand selection tool
• Clone Stamp tool
• Red Eye Removal
• Ability to acquire pictures from a scanner or camera directly into Paint.NET (Windows XP/2003 only)

Web Design

• Up to 3200% zoom, or as low as 1%. Grid mode is available for 400% and larger zoom modes.
• Control over JPEG quality along with preview of resultant file size
• PNG transparency support

Developer

• Extensively optimized for multiple threads: systems with multiple CPU's or cores will exhibit dramatic performance gains
• Full source code provided
• Extensible effect plugin system

try to download it here!

http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/

good day to all!