I like MS Paint for its simplicity. It’s small, fast, and quite handy for creating a simple button/banner (Like the one you see below Capt. Jack Sparrow’s picture on the sidebar).

Until I found Paint.NET. This program’s loading time is slower to MS Paint by less than 1 second. So it’s nothing to complain. The interface is almost similar to MS Paint

Some feature comparison between MS Paint and Paint.NET:

Features MS Paint Paint.NET
Tabbed document interface no yes
Layers no yes
Live thumbnail no yes
Number of Colors Supported 28 (although you can select other colors by going through the menu: Colors - Edit Colors - Define Custom Colors) alot :P
Special Effects (sharp, blur, emboss, distortion, etc.) no yes

 

And a lot more features …

And the best part, it’s open source. The online community is very active. So you can expect many plugins written by the community.

Paint.NET Minimum System Requirements:

  • Windows XP (SP2 or later), or Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2003 (SP1 or later)
  • .NET Framework 2.0
  • 500 MHz processor (Recommended: 800 MHz or faster)
  • 256 MB of RAM (Recommended: 512 MB or more)
  • 1024 x 768 screen resolution
  • 200+ MB hard drive space
  • 64-bit support requires a 64-bit CPU that is running a 64-bit version of Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows Server 2003, and an additional 128 MB of RAM

Get Paint.NET Now!!!

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Hardono Arifanto :: Jun.04.2007 :: Tricks, Software :: 1 Comment »