Paint.NET Alternatives for Linux

Alternatives to Paint.NET for Linux with any license

GIMP

GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, and more.
- Whereas Paint.NET is a very simple and user friendly program that's easy to use, GIMP is incredibly unforgiving, difficult to learn/use and lacking the welcoming and uncomplicated interface of Paint.NET. Moreover it has functions that just completely stop working for no reason Guest • Dec 2016 • 104 agrees and 18 disagrees
- GIMP is full of features that aren't needed by 99% of people and very complicated. Guest • Jan 2017 • 112 agrees and 27 disagrees
- Paint.net is a very easy to use program for basic editing of images, while Gimp is a very complicated tool for doing lots of complex stuff with images so kind of very different target groups I would say Guest • May 2017 • 79 agrees and 12 disagrees
- GIMP is a superb cross-platform (Win, Mac, Linux) alternative to Paint.NET because it's open source and has a huge range of functionality. It is less suited for those situations where you're seeking a very simple image editor, without fuss. But it's still cross-platform, which Paint.NET isn't. So it depends what "alternative" means to you. JohnFastman • Jan 2017 • 16 agrees and 18 disagrees
- Paint.NET is simple and fast, GIMP is neither Merritt • Jul 2020
- Compared to Paint.Net, GIMP is way too complicated Guest • Jun 2020
- Gimp is very heavy advanced image editing tool while Paint.NET is fairly light and user-friendly. Guest • Jun 2020
- GIMP is more complicated, and harder to understand compared to Paint.NET Guest • May 2020
- Yeah, it's overloaded, but its main goal is to provide all tools that you ever need. Guest • Apr 2020
- Completely different program. Really complicated and hard to use. Guest • Apr 2020
- gimp is a good image editor but dosen't have the tools as paint.NET Guest • Mar 2020 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Its very hard to use! only pro's know how to use it! Guest • Apr 2020
- Gimp is massively more complex and not great at the core drawing functionality Guest • Feb 2020 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
- GIMP is over cluttered with hard to use tools and is very unintuitive, it is not similar at all when it comes to simplicity of paint.net Guest • Mar 2020 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- GIMP is complicated but worth digging through the shell. Once you get a hang of it, the tool is absolutely amazing. iglinowskijerzy • Oct 2019 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It can do anything you want drawing-wise. henrykagwysocka • Oct 2019 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- The purpose of paint.NET is to be simple and easy to use, GIMP is far away from that idea Guest • Apr 2019 • 3 agrees and 2 disagrees
- More complicated to use than Paint.Net, GIMP is an alternative to Photoshop or other complex photo editing softwares. Guest • Jul 2019 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees
- free, open-source, cross-platform Guest • May 2019 • 3 agrees and 3 disagrees
- Paint.net has a more intuitive user interface than GIMP and there are many program that are more similar to it than GIMP. Guest • Jan 2019 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees
- photoshop is the same but yes use it a lot Guest • May 2019 • 2 agrees and 3 disagrees
- Best open-source Paint.NET alternative Guest • Apr 2019 • 2 agrees and 3 disagrees
- It's not exactly Paint.net, but it's the closest to photoshop. I think you should learn gimp if you are going to buy photoshop Guest • Mar 2019 • 1 agrees and 3 disagrees
- Paint is for simple drawings, Gimp is a complex and featureful artwork and photo editing tool. It’s more like an alternative to Photoshop. Guest • Oct 2018 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees
- it's a Photoshop alternative, not Paint.NET Guest • Aug 2018 • 5 agrees and 3 disagrees
- Gimp is something way different than Paint.net. If you want to do something rather quickly, then Gimp isn't for you... at all. Guest • Aug 2018 • 4 agrees and 3 disagrees
- GIMP is much harder to use than paint.NET, and the target demographics a very different. Guest • Oct 2018 • 3 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Its complicated, unlike Paint.net Guest • Jul 2018 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Hard to use, can't draw a simple square/circle fast ... Guest • Apr 2018 • 7 agrees and 4 disagrees
- GIMPs UX is a disaster of disconnected panels, unexpected behaviour, and weird key combinations. It is not a Paint.NET alternative. Guest • May 2018 • 7 agrees and 4 disagrees
- GIMP is a great app, but its way too heavy and slow for paint.net tasks. Guest • Dec 2017 • 7 agrees and 4 disagrees
- GIMP is really complicated and not a real alternative. It has way more than nedeed for most of the users. Paint.NET is really simple to use and has just enough functionality to be useful for an advanced (but not professional) user. Guest • Jul 2017 • 8 agrees and 4 disagrees
- It's open source and cross platform fabthezen • Nov 2017 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Horrrible, very dificult to learn. Guest • Jun 2017 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Snapcraft ... FLATHUB PortableApps.com Haiku AmigaOS
Layer manipulation Customizable Support for Layers Photo effects ... DRM Free Cross-platform Ad-free Animation Editing photos Regular updates Select by Color Batch image manipulation Blur Filter Built-in Color picker Color correction Color to Alpha Extensible by Plugins/Extensions High-resolution images Image Editing Image Masking Keyframe animation Lossless Cropping Edit photo Retouch photos Portable Open PSD files Scalable Scripting support Symmetry brush Add a feature

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Krita

Krita is a complete creative sketching and painting application with advanced, commercial quality features. It's open-source and available across all major desktop platforms. Krita is free on the official website and paid on Steam and Microsoft Store: the money will support Krita development. User Interface - An intuitive user interface that stays out of your way. The dockers and panels can be moved and customized for your specific workflow.
- There isn't anything else exactly like paint.net, but Krita comes the closest in terms of features and ease of use. It's relatively intuitive, has various customization options, and is sufficient for basic photo editing and more advanced image manipulation and drawing. Generic_Sweetener • Jul 2020 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- It's a painting program, not a photo editing program skyling • May 2019 • 9 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Painting software, not photo editing Guest • Jun 2019 • 9 agrees and 3 disagrees
- It is exactly what I was looking for as an alternative to Paint.Net. Very similar. Completly free. Guest • Jul 2019 • 6 agrees and 5 disagrees
- Various tools, everything free. Guest • Feb 2019 • 3 agrees and 0 disagrees
- It's not an alternative to Gimp because it has a fewer features but it is a nice tool for painting. trefoil004 • May 2019 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- Krita is a very complete painting tool, it isn't suited for very quickly making basic adjustments. Guest • Apr 2019
- Very good, but not focused to photo editing. Guest • Jan 2017 • 15 agrees and 4 disagrees
- It's literally a painting tool, not for photo editing. Guest • Nov 2017 • 11 agrees and 5 disagrees
- This is a digital painting app, not a raster painting app Guest • Nov 2016 • 5 agrees and 6 disagrees
- Krita is also very similar to photoshop, and if you find the features easily enough and do enough research it has ALOT more features than paint.net while having the easy navigation that paint.net has. Also it's free! Guest • Dec 2016 • 4 agrees and 3 disagrees
- Near the same interface, less powerfull. Guest • Jun 2016 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
Freemium $ $ $ Open Source Mac Windows Linux Windows S Android Tablet ... PortableApps.com Steam
Digital Drawing Blending brushes Animation Frame by frame animation ... Drawing Keyframe animation Color blending Texture painting Advanced brush settings Animations Digital-painting focused Lightweight Smooth lines Texture for brushes Support for Wacom Tablets 3D Poser Background transparency Blending and lineart Brush Stabilizers Circles Color selection Customizable Drawing 2D Drawing Tablet Support Fullscreen support Good subscription management system Image Editing Intuitive Interface Layer manipulation Multi-choice brushes Multiple languages Paint simulation Painting Tools Penetration tools Photographic editor Sketching Structured data Tablet support Unlimited layers Auto aligment rulers Auto Correction Painting Document templates Instant edit screenshots Support for Layers No Kernel-Mode Components Page labeling Edit photo Pop-up Palette Portable Open PSD files Rewind the changes Support for Hotkeys SVG Editors Symmetry brush Tablet Pressure Sensitivity Timeline-based Optimized for Touch screen Add a feature

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Pinta

Pinta is a free, open source drawing/editing program modeled after Paint.NET . Its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on Linux, Mac, and Windows. On Windows, Pinta requires the .NET framework, just like Paint.NET.
- Works well enough. Still rough around the edges, but it received an update one month ago that fixed quite a lot of bugs. Not gonna be a 1to1 replacement, but it's the closest I know of, and it does a pretty good job. Guest • 7 days ago
- Pinta is modeled after Paint.NET, making it good for basic adjustments, drawing simple shapes, and so-on. Unfortunately, it's buggy and lacks some of the outstanding features that have been added to PDN since 2015. While it's the best replacement for PDN so far, I wouldn't say it's a very good one. Guest • Apr 2019 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- It gives you a good taste of Paint.NET, but it's so broken and painful to work with that it just isn't worth using; e.g. the text function doesn't work. Guest • Feb 2019 • 3 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It's not exactly discontinued, the GitHub project is still very much active as of January 2019. The 2015 stable release is more or less feature-complete compared to Paint.NET. Guest • Feb 2019 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- It was created with that very purpose in mind, clone Paint.NET lpzantony • Dec 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- It is powerfull, open-source and almost the same but cross-platform alternative to paint.net Guest • Jan 2018 • 6 agrees and 1 disagrees
- Simple program - very similar to paint.net. It also is lightweight (~60 MB vs ~400 MB for Krita on Lubuntu system) Guest • Jul 2018
- Uses the same layout. Never used Pinta before, but since I have experience with Paint.NET I understood all features. Guest • Jun 2018
- It's a much better multi-platform alternative to Paint.NET than GIMP in my opinion. It's a much simpler interface, like Paint.NET Epicpkmn11 • Apr 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 disagrees
- This is the only one in the list that aims to be a paint.net clone. Guest • Jul 2017 • 7 agrees and 4 disagrees
- It's as simple as Paint.NET. Works as you would expect. I consider this to be Paint.NET for Mac Guest • Aug 2017 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Even though it's Discontinued, it's very similiar to Paint.NET and It's multi-platform Guest • Apr 2017 • 3 agrees and 4 disagrees
- It's a simple program with almost identical features of Paint.net, it also does not require much storage space when first started. Guest • Nov 2016 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Is a good alternative, and better Guest • Oct 2016
- This functions in almost identical ways to Paint.NET, more so than any other program listed on here. Guest • Oct 2015 • 10 agrees and 2 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD Mono
Support for Layers Image Editing Lightweight Edit photo Add a feature

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MyPaint

MyPaint is a fast painting program with an emphasis on full-screen use. It lets you focus on the art instead of the program. You work on your canvas with minimum distractions, bringing up the interface only when you need it. MyPaint supports pressure or tilt sensitive graphic tablets and comes with an easy-to-use brush collection. There is a complex interface for creating own brushes, focusing on brush dynamics (changes with speed, pressure, randomly).
- MyPaint looks a lot like Photoshop. Paint.NET is so popular because of the simplicity. Photoshop is a beautiful program with a lot of options. Paint.NET is a simple "paint" program that allows you to go as you like, but keep it simple at the beginning. MyPaint is like a Photoshop lite. Guest • May 2017 • 5 agrees and 5 disagrees
- MyPaint is a digital painting/drawing program, Paint.NET is a simple image editor. superluminar • Oct 2017 • 6 agrees and 3 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com
Infinite canvas Color blending Painting Drawing ... Fullscreen support Image Editing Support for Layers Portable Sketching Support for Wacom Tablets Add a feature

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LazPaint

LazPaint is a free and open image editor, like PaintBrush or Paint.Net, written in Lazarus (Free Pascal). Uses BGRABitmap library. LazPaint has features layers and transparency. It supports the format OpenRaster so it can interoperate with MyPaint, Gimp and Krita. LazPaint has been written with Lazarus / Free Pascal and BGRABitmap.
- It is a raster graphics simple paint program Guest • May 2018 • 2 agrees and 5 disagrees
- It is a raster graphics simple paint program Guest • Nov 2016 • 2 agrees and 3 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com
Lightweight Reads PDN Format Layer manipulation Pixel accuracy ... Transparent images Painting Support for Layers Portable Add a feature

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Glimpse Image Editor

Glimpse is an open source image editor based on the GNU Image Manipulation Program. The goal is to experiment with new ideas and expand the use of free software. Show Off Your Imagination Use a complete set of professional photography tools to turn your snapshots into works of art. Adjust, crop, remove objects, retouch, and repair old photos. Play with color, effects, and more to turn the ordinary into something extraordinary.

Free Open Source Windows Linux
Customizable Layer manipulation Image Editing Edit photo ... Retouch photos Add a feature

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KolourPaint

Features: + Support for drawing various shapes - lines, rectangles, rounded rectangles, ovals and polygons. + Curves, lines and text. + Colour picker. + Selections. + Rotation, monochrome and other advanced effects. KolourPaint does not support transparencies in PNG files.
- It has the same interface as Paint.NET, The same tools, the same ease of use....But for Linux ! Guest • Mar 2020
- Lacks layers and transparency support. Guest • Apr 2020 • 2 agrees and 0 disagrees
- KolourPaint is one of the simplest and most responsive options. It is more like MS Paint, but still gets the job done. retrodaredevil • Sep 2018
Free Open Source Linux
Options for re-scaling Image Editing Texturing Add a feature

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PhotoFlare

Photoflare is a cross-platform image editor with an aim to balance between powerful features and a very friendly graphical user interface. It suits a wide variety of different tasks and users who value a more nimble workflow. Features include basic image editing capabilities, paint brushes, image filters, colour adjustments and more advanced features such as Batch image processing.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Image Editing Edit photo Photo effects Photographic filters Add a feature

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miniPaint

miniPaint is free online image editor using HTML5. Edit, adjust your images, add effects online in your browser without installing anything. You can use the Electron based version of the editor if you like.

Free Open Source Linux Web Self-Hosted
Create New Empty Images Support for Layers No Login Required Add a feature

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Pixelitor

Pixelitor is a cross-platform raster graphics editor written in Java. It supports image filters, drawing, layers, multiple undo, etc. Currently its main strength lies in the more than 70 image filters and color adjustments, some of which are unique. Features: - Layers. - Unlimited undo. - Image filters. - Color adjustments. - Drawing.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Painting Drawing Image Editing Image Processing ... Java Edit photo Photo effects Photographic filters Retouch photos Sketching Add a feature

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