Paint.NET 3.5.4 Portable ~ 26.3 MB

Paint.NET is free image editing 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. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with a small amount of C++ for installation and shell-integration related functionality.

Paint.NET can be used to enhance and clean up your photographs. Using the Clone Stamp tool, the power lines that criss-crossed in front of the Space Needle were carefully removed. Other operations were performed that had the effect of smoothing out the image without blurring it, adding some "bloom" (glow), and increasing the contrast.

Features:
Simple, intuitive, and innovative user interface
Every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance. In order to handle multiple images easily, Paint.NET uses a tabbed document interface. The tabs display a live thumbnail of the image instead of a text description. This makes navigation very simple and fast.

Layers
Usually only found on expensive or complicated professional software, layers form the basis for a rich image composition experience. You may think of them as a stack of transparency slides that, when viewed together at the same time, form one image.

Active Online Community
Paint.NET has an online forum with a friendly, passionate, and ever-expanding community. Be sure to check out the constantly growing list of tutorials and plugins!

Frequently Updated
Updates usually come about every 4 to 8 weeks, and contain new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes. Upgrading to the latest version is very simple, requiring only two clicks of the mouse.

這個畫面與功能看起來極像 PhotoShop 的軟體是小畫家？沒錯！它就是 Windows 內建的小畫家下一代的版本，由微軟和華聖頓大學合作，利用 C# 和 GDI extensions 所開發出來的加強版小畫家，計畫在未來的 Windows 中取代現有的小畫家程式。

不過它跟目前大家熟知的「小畫家」，其兩者間的功能可說是天壤之別。乍看之下，Paint.NET 就如同一套極有專業水準的影像處理軟體，舉凡圖層的處理、濾鏡效果、圖片特效、圖片裁切．．．等多種功能。也因為如此，更有人說 Paint.NET 就像是 Adobe PhotoShop 的精簡版本。但 Adobe PhotoShop 是商業軟體，而 Paint.NET 則是開放原始碼的免費軟體。

PhotoShop 是一套極為專業、功能強大的影像處理軟體，但對於一般使用者而言，它不但需要極佳的電腦硬體配備，更是一套需要付費的商業軟體，再加上一般使用者也很少會使用到PhotoShop那麼多那麼強大的功能。根據傳言，它也是將來微軟準備用來取代「小畫家」的軟體。不過，它跟目前大家所知的「小畫家」實在是差別很大。Paint.NET 裡的圖層處理、濾鏡效果，圖片特效、圖片裁切…等多種實用且專業的功能。也難怪有人或說它就像是 PhotoShop 的精簡版本。如果受不了 PhotoShop 那開啟執行速度的緩慢，以及它那極高的購買費用，那或許可以來試試這套免費的 Paint.NET。