Q827328

Key facts

Software.name: Paint.NET
Software.logo: Paint.net logo.png
Software.logo_size: 220px
Software.screenshot: Paint.NET 5.1 screenshot.png
Software.caption: Paint.NET version 5.1
Software.author: Rick Brewster
Software.developer: dotPDN, LLC
Software.latest release version: 5.1.11
Software.programming language: C#, C++, C++/CLI
Software.operating system: Windows 10 or later
Software.platform: .NET Framework and .NET
Software.size: 79.5 MB

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History
Overview
Plugins
Forks
paint-mono
Pinta
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Paint.NET (sometimes stylized as paint.net) is a freeware general-purpose raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, developed with the .NET platform. Paint.NET was originally created by Rick Brewster as a Washington State University student project, and has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program into a program for editing mainly graphics, with support for plugins.

==History== Paint.NET originated as a computer science senior design project during spring 2004 at Washington State University. Version 1.0 consisted of 36,000 lines of code and was written in fifteen weeks. In contrast, version 3.35 has approximately 162,000 lines of code. The Paint.NET project continued over the summer and into the autumn 2004 semester for both the version 1.1 and 2.0 releases.