Editing Paint.NET (section)

{{short description|Freeware graphics editor}}
{{Infobox software
| name = Paint.NET
| logo = Paint.net logo.png
| logo_size = 220px
| screenshot = Paint.NET 5.1 screenshot.png
| caption = Paint.NET version 5.1
| author = Rick Brewster
| developer = dotPDN, LLC
| released = {{Start date and age|2004|05|06}}
| latest release version = 5.1.3
| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2025|02|08}}
| programming language = [[C Sharp (programming language)|C#]], [[C++]], [[C++/CLI]]
| operating system = [[Windows 10]] or later<ref name="officialDownload" />
| platform = [[.NET Framework]]<ref name="officialDownload" /> and [[.NET]]
| size = 79.5 MB
| language = English, Belarusian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian<ref name="officialDownload" />
| language count = 34
| genre = [[Raster graphics editor]]
| license = [[Freeware]]<ref name="license-2009-11-06" />
| website = {{URL|https://getpaint.net}}
}}
'''Paint.NET''' (sometimes stylized as '''paint.net''') is a [[freeware]] general-purpose [[raster graphics editor]] program for [[Microsoft Windows]], developed with the [[.NET platform]]. Paint.NET was originally created by Rick Brewster as a [[Washington State University]] student project,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Paint.NET – Free Software for Digital Photo Editing|url= http://www.getpaint.net|access-date=September 30, 2009}} Bottom of the page, below ''about''.</ref> and has evolved from a simple replacement for the [[Microsoft Paint]] program into a program for editing mainly graphics, with support for [[Plugin (computing)|plugins]].