About Paint.NET is image and photo editing software for PCs 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.

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 actions you perform on an image, and on the size of the image.

Dec 5, 2024 · This is a small update that contains fixes for some bugs and that were discovered in 5.1, as well as a new Fill option in the Image -> Canvas Size dialog. It also has workarounds for some bugs in Sentinel One (antivirus) that were causing …

Feb 14, 2025 · This update is mostly a hotfix that fixes installation on Windows Server systems. Get the Update There are two releases of Paint.NET: Microsoft Store release (recommended) You can purchase it here. This helps fund development and is an alternative or supplement to sending in a donation. In additi...

May 20, 2025 · This is a simple maintenance release that mostly fixes a few small bugs, and updates the bundled DDS FileType plugin. Get the Update There are two releases of Paint.NET: Microsoft Store release (recommended) You can purchase it here. This helps fund development and is an alternative or supplement...

Mar 11, 2025 · Download the installer from the website. This is the recommended download if you don't have Paint.NET installed. It can also be used to update the app. If you already have it installed, you should be offered the update automatically within the next few days, but you can also get it immediately by going to ⚙ Settings -> Updates -> Check Now.

Dec 19, 2024 · This update fixes some small bugs, including flickering issues with NVIDIA Fast VSync, and should further soothe the screen blanking issues being reported on some systems with buggy MPO (multiplane overlay) support. Get the Update There are two releases of Paint.NET: Microsoft Store release (reco...

Sep 3, 2017 · A DDS FileType plugin that allows Paint.NET to open and save the the some of formats introduced in DirectX 10 and later. Compatibility: Paint.NET 5.1.1+. This plugin is bundled with Paint.NET 4.2.2 and later. If you need the features from a newer version you can still install the plugin. The plug...

Nov 12, 2024 · Paint.NET doesn't really know what to do with these for some of its theme colors, and this allows folks to set a color that is comfortable for their eyes and lighting conditions. Contrast. Sometimes when you're editing an image, the drop shadow can trick your eyes into thinking the image is a slightly different size than it actually is.

Apr 21, 2018 · Content aware filling replaces the contents of the selection with pixels that are the closest match in the areas outside the selection. This allows parts of an image to be removed and blended with the background. This plugin is based on the GIMP Resynthesizer plugin. Compatibility: 5.1.4+ Menu lo...