Tutorial on Paint.Net

Presentation to the Melbourne PC Users Bayside SIG thby Kathy Rouse 15 June 2006. Paint.NET, the free program begun as an undergraduate senior design project at Washington State University, by Microsoft, is currently being maintained by some of the original creators. It is intended as a replacement for the limited Paint program that comes with Windows. Paint.NET is an image and photo manipulation program that supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects and a number of tools and effects. The latest, version, 2.63, is designed to be run on Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Server 2003. Information about the program and how to download it can be found at: - http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/pdnabout.html. You must have Microsoft.Net Framework 2.0 on your computer before you can install Paint.Net. Work is currently being done on version 3.0 to be released around the time Vista comes on the market. Updates to 2.6, for the most important bugs, will continue to be released from time to time. I have found the latest version to be amazingly stable on my computer – Pentium 4 CPU 2.40GHz, 1.00 of RAM. It is planned that version 3.0 will include the following, Intuitive multi-document user interface More intuitive and more powerful toolbar Enhanced user experience in Windows Vista Adjustment layers Layer masks Gradient drawing Metadata editor(per-image, and per-layer) Paint.Net comes with a help file and there is an on-line forum for ...