Standard effects available out-of-the-box are standard blurs, sharpening, photo effects (red-eye removal, photo softening), a list of various distortions and more. Like Adobe Photoshop, Paint.NET can also apply adjustments to your images such as auto-levels, contrast, invert, colour levels, hues, posterize and many others. The community around this program is definitely a plus because users help users and provide tutorials and a growing list of addons, the addons make applying unique and cool effects easy as pie. If you're a Photoshop user who's used to using layers within a working document, then you won't be disappointed when using this freeware application because layers remain the foundation of Paint.NET along with applying filters and effects to specific layers. Despite the name, the two programs are not comparable at all.

It comes packed with all of the most essential tools needed in a modern image editing suite and completely blows Microsoft Paint out of the water. Windows 7 Paint is 6.2MB compared to Windows XP Paint being a mere has got to be one of the nicest surprises for a freeware image editing program. Of course, you need to rename it to mspaint.exe as well. In fact, you can even replace your Windows 7 Version with MS Paint, by replacing mspaint.exe (probably in c:\windows\system32) with the file you download below.

So to start off our MS Paint section, below you will find the version of MS Paint that came with Windows XP. It feels as if I'm using the new version of Microsoft Office, but the problem with that is, MS Paint is not an Office product, hence the Graphics category you see above. MS Paint has been bundled with Windows since 1.0, although it has evolved greatly to its current iteration (I haven't yet played around with Windows 8 Paint) and Windows XP versions of Paint can apparently be used to scan documents (although I've never used it for that purpose). Search for 'MS Paint drawings' and you'll see what I mean - the Venice one is truly fantastic, although the guy cheated and used Photoshop for some filters afterward so I don't know if we can truly count that ). Are there truly any other uses for this program? Well, yes - I do recall seeing some really fantastic MS Paint drawings. I've always used it as a simple screen shot capturing tool where I can quickly screen capture, save as GIF (Windows 98 versions of MS Paint could only save as BMP) and upload it to show someone a bug I'm experiencing on a web platform. Microsoft Paint is not the Photoshop for the poor, nor is it a powerful image editor.

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