Freeware of the Moment- Paint .NET 2.5 RC2

Paint.NET is simply the best free alternative to Photoshop and the recently released version 2.5 Rc2 earns it a repeat spot on my Freeware of the Moment list. The developers have added so many new features to this new version that it would require a very long list so you should just go look at the Paint.NET web site. Here's a partial list:

• Much faster performance and lower memory usage
• Full flexibility for scaling, rotating, moving, and modifying selections and selected pixels
• Internationalization (I18N) support
• Officially available in German
• Curve tool
• Full support for working with measurements in inches and centimeters
• 3D Rotate / Zoom effect
• Radial Blur and Add Noise effects
• Sepia adjustment
• Improved Text Tool, including higher quality font rendering
• GIF transparency support
• TGA file format support
• Greater extensibility with a brand new File Format API
• Simpler, faster setup wizard
• Update manager simplifies getting the latest version
• Cleaner user interface with none of the annoying flickering of past releases

This program quite simply rocks!

Comments

[Oren]

For myself, I'm not touching anything based on .net technology (aside from at my workplace, where I cant avoid it or do some experimenting with).
It's unstable, laggish, heavy, and basically sucks. :) It's exactly like JAVA for windows!