![]() Paint.NET personifies what free software should be. The gradient tool is powerful and easy to use, and unlimited levels of undo make it possible to try out several ideas without worrying about losing the original image. The program includes everything you would expect to find in an image editing package, but there are plenty of surprises when you consider that this is free software. The filters and special effects are constantly being refined and improved – the advent of the new 5.x series sees several new ones added, including the incredibly useful Shadows/Highlights tool for correcting poorly exposed images. With support for layers, a wide range of image formats and lots of built-in filters (with wide plugin support filling in any missing gaps), everything you need for your day-to-day image-editing needs is here. The app has always enjoyed stellar performance compared to clunkier rivals, but successive releases have done even more to speed things up with greater support tapping into your graphics’ own processing capabilities. The program has a beautifully clean and uncluttered interface, using tabs to make it easy to work across multiple images at once. It sits comfortably between the uber-powerful (and complex) Photoshop on the one hand and Windows’ anaemic Photos tool on the other. It is not my place to second-guess your has long been a staple of the free image-editing market. I only say this to forward the feedback I received. Personally, I do often use the JPEG noise removal plugin, and frequently forget whether it’s in Photo, Blur or Noise. I feel that improvements to the plugin organization, or any kind of quick search, would speed the workflow significantly more up than any further performance improvements (it’s already really fast). That’s especially true if you don’t use English, because people have duplicate folders (like English and Spanish names). ![]() ![]() I have recommended PDN to a great number of people over the years, and they love it because of its ease-of-use and the many plugins, but a frequent complaint is that you forget where a certain effect is located. ![]() I see you have made fundamental changes to the plugin system.Ĭould you change the way plugins are organized to allow users to simply put dlls into their own subfolders? Like there are actual subfolders in the Effects folder on your disk, and the hierarchy in PDN reflects that? While I can only congratulate you for such a major effort, there’s something that continues to bother me. ![]()
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