Paint.net ?

[Dave3d]

Has anyone used this yet?

Is it any good?

http://paint.net/

"
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers 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.

It started development 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 GIMP.
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[Snafu]

I have it. Not sure which version but it is a couple of years old.

It is not bad. It doesn't load quickly (could be my system). It is more powerful than window's paint but not as powerful as gimp or photoshop.

Perhaps the newer version is more powerful?

I have photoshop (gift for the wife cause I couldn't teach her gimp) so I rarely use this or other apps anymore.

Personally, I would give it a try along side gimp.

When I first ran gimp I found it not very intuitive which was surprising since I am self-taught on a lot of apps. However, this was the first photo editing tool I tried (different terms and such). After running photoshop for a while I bet I could run gimp a lot better now.

I hope this helps

[Shayd]

It has done everything I have ever needed so I never bothered to reinstalled Photoshop. Supports layers, etc., but I am not a heavy graphics person.

Seems pretty fast to me, but running a more recent version it appears then Snafu. I actually was able to grab the source when it was available as I like to spelunk into the deeps to see how things work. Don't think it is available anymore though.

[Dave3d]

Thanks guys.

I have Elements at home, but nothing at work.

I just wanted something easy to crop and shrink photos at work.

(And I have no idea what 90% of these apps do, or how to do it even if I did, lol).

[GrrDonDon]

Thanks guys.

I have Elements at home, but nothing at work.

I just wanted something easy to crop and shrink photos at work.

(And I have no idea what 90% of these apps do, or how to do it even if I did, lol).

well - for those 2 tasks you wouldn't need anything more than Irfanview - it's basic and easy photviewing/editing free of charge software ;)

[Dave3d]

Thanks Don.
I will try that out.

:thumb:

[Snafu]

I just wanted something easy to crop and shrink photos at work.
Missed this :scratch:

Paint or paint brush will crop and resize. Resizing is easy but cropping takes some finessing - you need to know the pixel size you want to crop off the right and bottom edges. If you want to crop the left or top edges then you have to flip the image so the the edge is on the right or bottom. A PITA but doable and you don't have to install anything.

[Shayd]

Paint.net is very easy to crop.
Use the selection tool to mark the area and hit the toolbar crop tool, resizes the canvas to the selection and save.

You can drag and drop, Paste as a new image, Paste as new layer, and a nice loaded image selection bar on the top right that I use as I copy lecture images which it puts in creation sequence from the Vyew (online conference using flash tool) using Alt-PrtScn to capture the window for the slides being shown and then I can save them all at once just changing the name to the slide number.

How was that for a run on sentence :p

It was free last I looked as well.