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Free tool: Paint.NET 3.0

Paint.NET 3.0 was released recently. The main new features:

• Generally improved and cleaner user interface


• Interactive Gradient Tool that makes it very easy to draw and then fine-tune placement and coloring of a gradient.


• User-definable color palette (as opposed to just the color wheel)


• New effects: Clouds, Median, Unfocus, Outline, and an improved Sharpen


• More intuitive and more powerful toolbar


• History files are now compressed to save disk space, reduce disk activity, and improve performance.


• "Merge Down" layer command


• Simple and intuitive tab-based multi-document user interface:

Paint.NET is free and I have used it for more than a year for all my image editing. It is powerful enough to do everything I need, but yet simple to use for someone like me who is not an imaging expert.