Paint.NET is an image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 200 or XP. Jointly developed at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft, Paint.NET is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with GDI+ extensions. In addition, it is equipped with many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers.

As part of a project at Washington State University, Paint.NET is currently offering to be used for free! This is certainly a cool piece of software to replace your current Microsoft Paint, that comes with Windows.

Minimum System Requirements:

• 500MHz processor recommended
• 128MB RAM
• 1024×768 screen resolution
• Windows XP (SP1 or SP2), Windows 2000 (SP3 or later), Windows 2003
• .NET Framework 1.1

Users can download .NET Framework from Microsoft website or by going to the Windows Update.

** Note that this build (beta) will expire on November 15th. An update will be available before then. The final release of v2.5 will not expire.