Free Paint.NET Alternatives

The best free alternative to Paint.NET is Pinta, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Paint.NET and loads of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Paint.NET are Krita, GIMP, Photopea and Affinity.

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    PT Photo Editor is an efficient application designed to solve all common photo problems, bring your images to life and make them look their best. You can easily correct color cast and exposure problem, remove imperfections, and turn every photo into a work of art with your...

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    • Freemium
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    • Windows
     
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    Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 8 enhances your photos at the click of a button! The program fully automatically adjusts colors, contrasts and exposure settings to perfection for individual images or entire collections.

    215 Ashampoo Photo Optimizer alternatives

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    • Freemium (Pay once)
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    • Windows
     
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    Love photo editing? Multi Layer is a full featured photo editor able to edit and compose images in multiple layers. It supports selection tool (manual and magic wand tool) to selective editing brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and RGB color levels.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Android
     
  4. PaintStar icon
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    PaintStar is a versatile digital image processing software suitable for such tasks as retouching of photographs, composing and authoring images, image morphing, screen capture, and displaying image thumbnail in Windows Explorer context menu.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
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    SmoothDraw is an easy natural painting and digital free-hand drawing software that can produce high quality pictures. Support many kinds of brushes (pen, pencil, dry media, airbrush, bristle brush, image hose, etc.), retouch tools, layers, image adjustment, and many effects...

    16 SmoothDraw alternatives

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    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  6. Paint a File icon
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    Paint and export your drawings as GIF, Video, Image, PDF, SVG, DOCX, PPTX.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  7. PhotoGlory icon
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    PhotoGlory is simple and intuitive photo restoration software. Enhance your retro pics with 100 built-in effects and use many other effective tools.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Windows
     
  8. PicLab icon
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    Add beautiful typography & artwork, apply stunning filters and photo effects, and add an ever-growing collection of shapes, light FX, textures, borders, patterns, and more to your photos and share them to your favorite social networks!.

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    • Freemium (Pay once)
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    • Android
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    • Android Tablet
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    better control function and easy to understand but not a dummy app either

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    • PicLab is Freemium and ProprietaryPaint.NET is Free and Proprietary
  9. Picozu icon
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    Picozu Editor is a drawing and photo retouching application built on Javascript, HTML 5 and CSS3. Make sure you use a modern browser if you want to play with it.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
     
  10. piZap icon
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    Free online photo editing software.

    160 piZap alternatives

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    • Freemium (Pay once)
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    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Facebook
     
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    Photoshop Online Free Alternative Photo Editor By Toolpic, Turn your Pictures into Living Being by Using our Online Web based Photoshop Alternative

    Cost / License

    • Free
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    • Online
     
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