Paint.NET

Paint.NET originated as a computer science senior design project during spring 2004 at Washington State University. Version 1.0 consisted of 36,000 lines of code and was written in fifteen weeks.{{Cite web|url= http://blogs.msdn.com/rickbrew/archive/2004/09/03/225514.aspx|title= Paint.NET v1.1 "Beta 2" Download|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071221034115/http://blogs.msdn.com/rickbrew/archive/2004/09/03/225514.aspx|archive-date = 2007-12-21}} In contrast, version 3.35 has approximately 162,000 lines of code. The Paint.NET project continued over the summer and into the autumn 2004 semester for both the version 1.1 and 2.0 releases.

Development continued with one programmer who worked on previous versions of Paint.NET while he was a student at WSU. As of May 2006 the program had been downloaded at least 2 million times, at a rate of about 180,000 per month.

Initially, Paint.NET was released under a modified version of the MIT License, with the exclusion of the installer, text, and graphics.[http://www.getpaint.net/license.html Paint.NET – Licensing and FAQ] However, citing issues with the open source code being plagiarized by others that had rebranded the software as their own and bundled user content without their permission, the availability of the source code was restricted, in December 2007 Brewster announced his intent to restrict access to components of the program (including its installer, resources, and user interface).{{Cite web |date=December 4, 2007 |title=Freeware Authors: Beware of "Backspaceware" |url=http://blog.getpaint.net/2007/12/04/freeware-authors-beware-of-%E2%80%9Cbackspaceware%E2%80%9D/ |access-date=July 27, 2017 |publisher=paint.net blog}} In November 2009, the software was made proprietary, restricting the sale or creation of derivative works of the software.{{Cite web|title = A new license for Paint.NET v3.5|date = 7 November 2009|url = http://blog.getpaint.net/2009/11/06/a-new-license-for-paintnet-v35/|access-date = February 11, 2015}}

Starting with version 4.0.18, Paint.NET is published in two editions: A classic edition remains freeware, similar to all other versions since 3.5. Another edition, however, is published to Microsoft Store under a trialware license and is available to purchase for US$7. According to the developer, this was done to enable the users to contribute to the development with more convenience, even though the old avenue of donation was not closed.{{Cite web|last1=Rubino|first1=Daniel|title=Paint.NET is now available in the Windows Store for all Windows 10 PCs|url=https://www.windowscentral.com/paintnet-now-available-windows-store|website=Windows Central|publisher=Mobile Nations|date=September 30, 2017}}{{Cite web|last1=Brinkmann|first1=Martin|title=Paint.net lands in Windows Store (but is not free)|url=https://www.ghacks.net/2017/10/01/paint-net-lands-in-windows-store-but-is-not-free/|website=ghacks|date=October 1, 2017}}

Paint.NET is primarily programmed in the C# programming language. Its native image format, .PDN, is a compressed representation of the application's internal object format, which preserves layering and other information.{{Cite web|title=Paint.NET's file format, ".pdn"|url= http://blogs.msdn.com/rickbrew/archive/2005/01/18/355571.aspx|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080102165718/http://blogs.msdn.com/rickbrew/archive/2005/01/18/355571.aspx|archive-date = January 2, 2008}}

Paint.NET supports plugins, which add image adjustments, effects, and support for additional file types. They can be programmed using any .NET Framework programming language, though they are most commonly written in C#.{{Cite web|url= http://www.boltbait.com/pdn/codelab/|title=CodeLab: Paint.NET Plugin Development Environment|date = August 16, 2014 }} These are created by volunteer coders on the program's discussion board, the Paint.NET Forum. Though most are simply published via the discussion board, some have been included with a later release of the program. For instance, a DirectDraw Surface file type plugin, (originally by Dean Ashton) and an Ink Sketch and Soften Portrait effect (originally by David Issel) were added to Paint.NET in version 3.10.{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}

Hundreds of plugins have been produced;{{Cite web|url=http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/15260-plugin-index/|title=Plugin Index|date=28 June 2009 }} such as Shape3D, which renders a 2D drawing into a 3D shape. Some plugins expand on the functionality that comes with Paint.NET, such as Curves+ and Sharpen+, which extend the included tools Curves and Sharpen, respectively.{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}

Examples of file type plugins include an Animated Cursor and Icon plugin and an Adobe Photoshop file format plugin. Several of these plugins are based on existing open source software, such as a raw image format plugin that uses dcraw and a PNG optimization plugin that uses OptiPNG.{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}

Paint.NET was created for Windows, and has no native support for any other system. With its previous open-source nature, the possibility for alternate versions was available. In May 2007, Miguel de Icaza officially started a porting project called paint-mono. This project had partially ported Paint.NET 3.0 to Mono, an open-source implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure on which the .NET Framework is based. This allowed Paint.NET to be run on Mono-supported platforms, such as Linux. This port is no longer maintained and has not been updated since March 2009.Project [http://code.google.com/p/paint-mono/ Paint Mono] at Google Code

Newer Mono runtime 6 versions are able to run original Paint.NET releases up to 3.5.11 almost perfectly.{{Cite web|url= https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=19822|title= Paint.NET|publisher=WineHQ AppDB |access-date=July 22, 2021}}

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In 2010, developer Jonathan Pobst started a project called Pinta, describing it as a clone of Paint.NET for Mono and Gtk#. Pinta reused the adjustments and effects code from Paint.NET but otherwise is original code.

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{{Cite web |url = http://www.osnews.com/story/22843/Introducing_Pinta_a_Gtk_Clone_of_Paint_NET |title = Introducing Pinta, a Gtk+ Clone of Paint.NET |last = Holwerda |first = Thom |date = February 8, 2010 |work = OSNews |access-date = September 25, 2014}}

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|title = Rick Brewster on Paint.NET

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|publisher = Franklins.net/PWOP Productions Inc

|date = April 17, 2007

|format = MP3

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|archive-date = July 6, 2020

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|work = eWeek DevSource

|publisher = Saboor Aziz

|date = December 25, 2019

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|title = MSDN TV: Paint.NET – The .NET Framework in Action

|work = Microsoft Download Center

|publisher = Microsoft Corporation

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• {{Official website|http://www.getpaint.net/index.html}}
• [http://forums.getpaint.net/ paint.net forum]
• [https://archive.org/download/paintdotnet_v4_3_12 Download Paint.NET v4.3.12] - The last version of paint.net compatible with Windows 7, original release installation packages (may even run via Wine under Linux)
• [https://archive.org/details/Paint.NET3.5.11 Download Paint.NET v3.5.11]- The last version of paint.net compatible with Windows XP - v3.5.11 ("v3.5.12")
• [https://filehippo.com/download_paint-net/3.511.4977.23448.0/ The last version of paint.net compatible with Windows XP], from http://filehippo.com
• [https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta/releases Download Pinta], the most advanced FOSS fork of Paint.NET, for Linux
• https://www.linux-apps.com/p/2086477 - AppImage software package for Pinta for Linux

• {{Google code|openpdn|openpdn}} – open-source fork of Paint.NET 3.36.7 web-hosted on Google Code
• {{Google code|paint-mono|paint-mono}} – unofficial effort to port Paint.NET 3.0 to Linux using Mono ([https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=19822 As noted above], newer Mono runtime 6 versions are able to run original Paint.NET releases up to 3.5.11 almost perfectly), see Pinta for a more recent and more up-to-date fork of Paint.NET for Linux

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