Paint.NET is an image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows featuring an easy user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful Graphic tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

Paint.NET, a versatile photo manipulation software's development started 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 GI ... Read more to Download »

Inkscape is the most popular alternative Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X. Inkscape v0.48.1 is vector graphics editor with easy to use streamlined interface, with capabilities similar to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format supporting many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.). It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more.

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