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. Available also as portable app: http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable
- 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 • 66 agrees and 8 disagrees
- GIMP is full of features that aren't needed by 99% of people and very complicated. Guest • Jan 2017 • 76 agrees and 14 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 • 49 agrees and 7 disagrees
- More complicated to use than Paint.Net, GIMP is an alternative to Photoshop or other complex photo editing softwares. Guest • 5 days ago
- free, open-source, cross-platform Guest • May 2019
- photoshop is the same but yes use it a lot Guest • May 2019
- Best open-source Paint.NET alternative Guest • Apr 2019
- The purpose of paint.NET is to be simple and easy to use, GIMP is far away from that idea Guest • Apr 2019
- 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
- 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
- it's a Photoshop alternative, not Paint.NET Guest • Aug 2018 • 3 agrees and 1 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 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- GIMP is much harder to use than paint.NET, and the target demographics a very different. Guest • Oct 2018 • 1 agrees and 1 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 • 2 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Its complicated, unlike Paint.net Guest • Jul 2018 • 1 agrees and 0 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 • 3 agrees and 3 disagrees
- Hard to use, can't draw a simple square/circle fast ... Guest • Apr 2018 • 4 agrees and 3 disagrees
- GIMP is a great app, but its way too heavy and slow for paint.net tasks. Guest • Dec 2017 • 5 agrees and 3 disagrees
- It's open source and cross platform fabthezen • Nov 2017 • 1 agrees and 0 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 • 6 agrees and 3 disagrees
- Horrrible, very dificult to learn. Guest • Jun 2017
- 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 • 14 agrees and 15 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Chrome OS BSD ... PortableApps.com Haiku AmigaOS
Layer manipulation Customizable Support for Layers Photo effects ... Batch image manipulation Blur Filter Built-in Color picker Color correction Color to Alpha DRM Free Editing photos Extensible by Plugins/Extensions High-resolution images Image Masking Keyframe animation Lossless Cropping 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 free, open-source and available across all major desktop platforms. 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. Once you have your setup, you can save it as your own workspace. You can also create your own shortcuts for commonly used tools.
- It is exactly what I was looking for as an alternative to Paint.Net. Very similar. Completly free. Guest • Jul 2019
- Painting software, not photo editing Guest • Jun 2019 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- It's a painting program, not a photo editing program skyling • May 2019 • 1 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
- Krita is a very complete painting tool, it isn't suited for very quickly making basic adjustments. Guest • Apr 2019
- Various tools, everything free. Guest • Feb 2019 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
- 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 • 3 agrees and 3 disagrees
- Near the same interface, less powerfull. Guest • Jun 2016 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com
Keyframe animation Animations Texture painting Support for Wacom Tablets ... Customizable Frame by frame animation Lightweight Smooth lines Auto aligment rulers Auto Correction Background transparency Brush Stabilizers Color blending Digital-painting focused Document templates Fullscreen support Instant edit screenshots Layer manipulation Support for Layers Multi-choice brushes No Kernel-Mode Components Page labeling Pop-up Palette Portable Open PSD files Rewind the changes Support for Hotkeys SVG Editors Symmetry brush Tablet Pressure Sensitivity Texture for brushes 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.
- Discontinued Last stable release was in 2015. See https://pinta-project.com/pintaproject/pinta/releases/1-6
- 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
- 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
- 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
- It was created with that very purpose in mind, clone Paint.NET lpzantony • Dec 2018
- 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 is powerfull, open-source and almost the same but cross-platform alternative to paint.net Guest • Jan 2018 • 6 agrees and 1 disagrees
- 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 1 disagrees
- Even though it's Discontinued, it's very similiar to Paint.NET and It's multi-platform Guest • Apr 2017 • 3 agrees and 3 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 Lightweight 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 is a digital painting/drawing program, Paint.NET is a simple image editor. superluminar • Oct 2017 • 4 agrees and 2 disagrees
- 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 4 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux PortableApps.com
Infinite canvas Color blending Fullscreen support Support for Layers ... Portable Download from Soundcloud Support for Wacom Tablets Add a feature

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LazPaint

LazPaint is a free and open image editor that 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 • 0 agrees and 2 disagrees
- It is a raster graphics simple paint program Guest • Nov 2016
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD PortableApps.com
Lightweight Support for Layers Portable Add a feature

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Pixeluvo

Pixeluvo is a beautifully designed photo and image editor for PC. It supports everything from simple color and contrast tweaks, cropping and resizing, to complex photo montage with multiple layers, masks and effects.

Commercial $ $ $ Windows Linux
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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
Java Photo effects Photographic filters Retouch photos Add a feature

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DrawPile

Drawpile is a drawing program that lets you share the canvas with other users in real time.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Real time collaboration Hot keys Multiple Font Colors Pen pressure ... Pen Settings Real time collaboration Shared whiteboard Tablet Pressure Sensitivity Text formatting Unlimited Canvas Area Unlimited undo 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 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
Texturing Add a feature

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ImagePlay

ImagePlay is a rapid prototyping tool for building and testing image processing algorithms. It comes with a variety of over 70 individual image processors which can be combined into complex process chains. EDUCATION: Let your students learn about the basics of image processing. Show the effects of various parameters by manipulating them in real time.
- Different purpose than Paint.net Guest • May 2019
- This is for Processing images, not for editing them. Guest • Mar 2019 • 1 agrees and 0 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Node Based Add a feature

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showFoto

You can use it to view your photographs and improve them. Showfoto is the standalone image editor of the digiKam project.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux KDE
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Gnome Paint

gnome-paint is a simple, easy to use paint program for GNOME. It is inspired by MS-Paint.
- As gwarah said, Gnome Paint is an alternative to MS Paint. Not Paint dot net Guest • Feb 2019
- According to the description, it's an alternative to MS-Paint. gwarah • Jan 2018
Free Open Source Linux
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CinePaint

CinePaint is a deep paint application that edits EXR, DPX, 16-bit TIFF, JPEG, PNG and many other types of image files. CinePaint is available as a native application for Linux, Mac OS X, and BSD.

Free Open Source Mac Linux
No features added Add a feature

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PencilSheep

Layers, filters, layer styles, adjustment layers, masks, selections, brushes, undo/redo, graphics tablet support, raw file import, etc. Interactive filter layers, full GPU acceleration, and full HDR support.
- Discontinued Website unavailable.
Free Windows Linux Web
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Gpaint

gpaint (aka GNU Paint), a small-scale painting program for GNOME, the GNU Desktop Environment. gpaint does not attempt to compete with GIMP, it is just a simple drawing package based on xpaint, along the lines of Microsoft Paint. Currently gpaint has the following features: * Drawing tools such as ovals, freehand, polygon and text, with fill or shadow for polygons and closed freehand shapes. * Cut and paste by selecting irregular regions or polygons.

Free Open Source Linux BSD
Drawing 2D Add a feature

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TiltShift Generator

TiltShift Generator is a web service that adds cool camera effect to your picture on the fly. It's published as a free web service and AIR app.

Free Mac Windows Linux Web iPhone
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Phoduit

Phoduit is a non-destructive photo editor with a node-based user interface. Rapidly refine and retouch your photos, batch process, develop RAW images and more.

Commercial Windows Linux
Batch processing Photo effects Retouch photos Raw Photo processing Add a feature

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