App 8: Paint.Net

I have to apologize for the lack of updates. I was busy with some school-related activities in the past month.

But I do have a new App!
Many people know that Adobe's Photoshop is the most popular application to edit and manipulate images. However, getting it is a bit tough, with the basic Photoshop Elements costing about $80 and the full Photoshop CS4 costing from $200 for an upgrade to $700 for the full thing.

What I have here is a free alternative to Photoshop.

Paint.Net offers many of the features that Photoshop has but I've noticed a few things that make it truly competitive with Photoshop.

As with many of my other applications I've posted, Paint.Net is fast to load, and uses up less resources. In a comparison of the two, I've noticed that Photoshop is using about 50% more RAM than Paint.Net when working with the same file using the same tools and applying the same effects.

Additionally Paint.Net has a huge community to create plug-ins for features that are not included with the application.

It has a clean interface, and has compatibility with Windows 7 Jump-Lists!
I recommend it, and it's a quick 5Mb download from http://getpaint.net