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- <h2>Features</h2>
- <p>Paint.NET is designed to be accessible and simple for most users while still allowing powerful and sophisticated
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- <h3>Simple, intuitive user interface</h3>
- <p>Every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and/or quickly learnable
- without assistance. Also designed to be immediately familiar to users of
- <a target="_top" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Paint">Paint</a> and
- <a target="_top" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoshop">Photoshop.</a></p>
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- <h3>Free and Open Source</h3>
- <p>Paint.NET is provided for no cost, and with <a href="License.html">generous licensing terms</a>. The source
- code, written mostly in C#, is also available. You may wish to download this for educational or other purposes.</p>
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- <h3>Layers</h3>
- <p>This allows you to compose one complete image from a stack of other images that are blended together.</p>
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- <h3>Unlimited History</h3>
- <p>Every action you take on an image is recorded in the History window, and is only limited by available disk
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- <h3>Support for many popular file formats</h3>
- <p>The following file formats are supported: <a target="_top" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNG">PNG</a>,
- <a target="_top" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG">JPEG</a>,
- <a target="_top" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_bitmap">BMP</a>,
- <a target="_top" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF">GIF</a>,
- <a target="_top" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGA">TGA</a>, and
- <a target="_top" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIFF">TIFF</a>. The native Paint.NET image type is PDN which
- preserves layering.</p>
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- <p>You can apply many special effects to your image, and support for image adjustments is also possible.</p>
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- <p>The <a href="Paintbrush.html">Paintbrush</a> supports the
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_PC">Tablet PC's</a> pressure-sensitivity feature, allowing you to draw in a more
- natural and artistic manner.</p>
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- <p>Paint.NET supports plugins that add new effects, adjustments, and file format support.</p>
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- <font color="#808080" size="1">Copyright <font face="Times New Roman">⌐ 2006 </font>Rick Brewster,
- Chris Crosetto, Dennis Dietrich, Tom
- Jackson, Michael Kelsey, Brandon Ortiz, Craig Taylor, Chris Trevino, and Luke Walker. Portions Copyright
- <font face="Times New Roman">⌐ 2006 </font>Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.</font><font size="1"> <br>
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