Paint.NET - Freeware

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers 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. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

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 Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe^® Photoshop^®, Corel^® Paint Shop Pro^®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.

System Requirements

Minimum System

• Windows XP (SP2 or later),
  or Windows Vista,
  or Windows Server (2003 SP1 or later)
• .NET Framework 2.0 or newer (.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 recommended)
• 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, and an additional 128 MB of RAM

Please note that 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 type of actions you perform on an image, and on the size of the image.

Download:

Server1: download.com/Paint-NET/...

Server2: http://www.getpaint.net/download.html

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Credit: http://www.paint.net/

Microsoft Image Resizer PowerToy - Freeware

Large images can take a long time to upload. A solution to this is to resize your files to a more reasonable size before uploading.



The maximum size Photoblog currently stores your photographs in is 760 pixels in width, and the resizing is done after the file is uploaded.

However, if you resize your photographs to 760 pixels in width before uploading, you can save yourself a lot of time while seeing the same results.

There are obviously many ways to resize your photographs, and most people might use an image editing program. However, Microsoft has a little PowerToy for Windows XP users that can help you automatically resize batch photographs with just a couple clicks.

Install this PowerToy from Image Resizer Powertoy Setup and you will see an extra "resize pictures" option when you right-click your picture files. Choose this option, set the new size, and click Ok. This does not overwrite your original files, but instead you can have them save to new filenames.

* This tip can help you make presentations with pictures smaller (resize the pictures with this tool and add them to the powerpoint presentation).

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