I personally use the classic Paint app in Windows 10 for resizing, cropping, and removing artifacts. In fact, the app could best be described as a jack of all trades, incorporating a mixture of vector and photo editing tools for most user needs. Unlike the built-in Paint app in Windows 10, Paint.NET features a wider collection of tools and options. Installing Paint.NET is quick and easy: extract the zip file, launch the setup file then follow the on-screen instructions.

(The other day, I discovered Notepad is not able to handle certain large files, so you just never know.) Paint.NET is not limited to Windows 10, it works just as well on Windows 8 and Windows 7. The app is 64-bit compatible, which means you won’t have a problem working on large images, which is not uncommon these days. As the name implies, it depends on Microsoft’s.

Paint.NET is a free download and it’s quite small too, coming in around 6 MB.

Using Paint.NET – An Alternative to Microsoft Paint 3D on Windows 10 In this article, we check out the latest version and find out what’s new and how it works on Windows 10. Paint.NET has been around quite a while now and is actually premised on the idea of a modern Paint app at a time when Microsoft seemed to have no interest at all in updating the app. If and when they do, you might want to consider a third-party alternative that offers-and in some respects exceeds-Microsoft Paint in feature functionality, compatibility, and even extensibility. The problem is that this is a hack and we know that Microsoft likes to close loopholes, be it through a Windows Update or a future release of Windows 10. We previously showed you how you can get back the old Paint app using a registry hack. Microsoft is deprecating its classic Paint program in favor of Paint 3D, a modern app that focuses on the 3D design and social networking features. If you’ve tried Paint 3D and don’t like it, then Paint.NET may give you balance between intuitiveness and features that you actually need.

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