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Fourth in my countdown of favorite, must-have freeware applications. Check out the previous review.

Adobe’s Photoshop is a fantastic program that costs a lot of money. It has a lot of features that I don’t care for and I would not be surprised if you can minor in “Photoshop” at some university because of its power and complexity.

So that’s why I like [tag]Paint.NET[/tag]. This [tag]freeware[/tag] allows me to have a lot of the popular Photoshop tools (for example, creating layers), without all the pork that might come with Photoshop and without the hit on my wallet.

I don’t use Paint.NET for everything, but when I need to do some editing of a photograph that some of the ‘simpler’ programs can’t do, Paint.NET is my go to program. I like the functionality of layers–though it did take me a while to figure out how they work–and some of the functionalities like the magic wand, that is a powerful tool to select elements of a photograph or image.

Saving pictures in various formats is supported but limited compared to what Photoshop offers. Is Photoshop a more powerful program? Yes. Does Paint.NET have limitations that will make you want more from your [tag]photo editing[/tag] program? Probably. But for a software that is dubbed freeware, this is a fantastic program. You can’t beat the functionality and cost of this program.

Download here.