techcrunch.com — If you use Photoshop regularly, check out the just released version 3.0 of Paint.NET. It is 3.6 MB download that handles most of the basic (and many of the advanced) functions of Photoshop. And it's free!
Oct 21, 2006 View in Crawl 4
noxcelOct 21, 2006
"If You Use PhotoShop"- you don't need Paint.net 3.0...
johannesrexxOct 21, 2006
Overall this has been an excellent thread.(1) We aired the usual dirty laundry that Microsoft simply copied the best parts of Java, called it dot net, and marketed it to their Wintel Drones, declared it an innovation, and debated whether dot net is interpreted or compiled.(2) Mono got aired but nobody has run paint.net on Linux or Mac OS X(3) The title of the article is in error. It should say "If you don't have Photoshop check out Paint.net 3.0"(4) Best of all are all the suggestions from posters about other packages available for image editing. Especially good are the notes about free apps that use core image on Mac OS X. Chocoflop for example.Rock on. This is one of the most useful topics all week long ....
driya2000Oct 22, 2006
I haven't tried 3.0 but I've been using 1.x-2.x for a while, and if I can characterize it, I'd say this program is probably meant for people with little/no graphics experience. It's very intuitive. Things like: moving a part of a bitmap by just selecting and dragging (instead of having to mess with layers like in PS). People accustomed with PS may need to take a step back and think about it, which is why I somewhat disagree with the headline.There's no point of arguing whether this relatively new free program developed by college kids is comparable to a $600 mature software developed by a giant company. And there's no point of arguing if the developers are evil for choosing .net -- after all, it's free.
Closed AccountOct 22, 2006
you've probably got aids.
magadassOct 23, 2006
Herolint,Not sure what you have been reading but C# is by no means a clone of Java, its syntax may be similar but its easy to argue the syntax is similar to C++ also. In fact C# took the best of all popular languages out their including Ruby and incorporated those into it, the next release of C# 3.0 borrows even more language concepts from Ruby, and other popular languages out their. You could say C# is a programming language utopia, its the combined best of all languages. C# 2.0 should be a perfect example of how well C# is being put together, the took the c++ idea of templates which was always clugey and difficult to maintain and simplified but extended upon that idea with Generics. They took the GoF concepts and used Design Patterns all throughout .NET, so not only does it follow industry best practices it follows the industries culture.
usacomputertecJul 2, 2007
You want to hear the real story about how Paint.Net comes pre installed on Windows Vista Ultimate now! I think Microsoft is pushing it and you should not donate to it! It's a .net program so it won't run on Linux or Mac! It has Microsoft's name all over it just like Internet Explorer. It's a free program too but only runs on Windows!<a class="user" href="http://www.mindblowingidea.com/thehighlyunreliabletimes.html">http://www.mindblowingidea.com/thehighlyunreliabletimes.html</a>