Are you looking for Microsoft Paint alternative? Maybe Paint is too simple for you, but you don't like to load a CPU-demanding application like Photoshop or Gimp just to perform a simple image editing. If you are just like me, I recommend you to use Paint.NET as the replacement for Microsoft Paint.

I've been using Paint.NET since version 2.x (can't remember the specific version, 2.7 I think). The latest version as this post is written is 3.36. Paint.NET is a simple, yet powerful graphic editing program. You can perform simple to almost-advanced image editing with Paint.NET.

Paint.NET supports layers, blending, transparency, and plugins. The feature of Paint.NET that I like the most (and not in Paint) is layers. Layers make the graphic editing process easier especially when you trying to draw and possitioning simple objects, texts and shapes. Besides that, Paint.NET also supports some advanced effect and tools such as magnetic lasso, Hue/Saturation, Motion Blur, Pencil Sketch and many more. Paint.NET also supports DLL-file plugins, which add image adjustments, effects, and support for additional file types. Paint.NET is multicore aware so you can utilize your multicore CPU when working with Paint.NET. You couldn't ask more from a free software! Development of Paint.NET is improving from version to version.

Paint.NET is a freeware and available for Windows. Paint.NET requires at least the .NET Framework 2 in order to run.

[Download: Paint.NET]