• Table of Contents

• Overview
  
• Features
  Tutorials
  What's New?
  

Concepts

• Layers and Blend Modes

User Interface

• Keyboard & Mouse Commands
• Main Window
• Image List
• Menu Bar
  • File
  • Edit
  • View
  • Image
  • Layers
    • Rotate / Zoom
  • Adjustments
    • Curves
    • Levels
  • Effects
    • Artistic
    • Blurs
    • Distortion
    • Noise
    • Photo
    • Render
    • Stylize
  • Window
  • Help
• Toolbar
• Tools Window
  • Selection Tools
  • Move Tools
    Magic Wand
  • Gradient Tool
    Paintbrush
  • Eraser Tool
  • Pixel Tools
  • Shape Tools
  • Line / Curve Tool
  • Text Tool
  • Paint Bucket
  • Clone Stamp
  • Recolor Tool
• History Window
• Layers Window
• Colors Window
• Status Bar

Other

• FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
• Unattended Installation
• System Requirements
• Web Links
• License

Help Menu

This menu provides quick access to this documentation, the ability to send feedback or a bug report to the authors of Paint.NET, access to various online resources, the ability to choose the language, and the ability to show the About box.

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• Help Topics

  This launches the help file (which you are currently reading).

• Paint.NET Website

  This will open the Paint.NET website, http://www.getpaint.net.

• Donate

  This will open a web browser to a page that will let you donate to Paint.NET, http://www.getpaint.net/donate.html.

• Forum

  This will open a web browser to the Paint.NET forum website where there is an active user community.

• Tutorials

  This will open a web browser to the section of the Paint.NET forum that is dedicated to publishing tutorials. These tutorials run the gamut from easy to advanced, including such effects as "fiery text", exploding planets, and how to draw cartoons. The contents are constantly being added to or updated, so be sure to check back often!

• Plugins

  This will open a web browser to the section of the Paint.NET forum that is dedicated to publishing plugins. Some examples of plugins include support for the DDS and PCX file formats, a "toon" effect, drop shadows, and a very useful and unique "conditional hue and saturation" plugin. Please note that these plugins are provided by members of the forum, and the Paint.NET team can provide no support for them.

• Send feedback or bug report

  This will launch your default e-mail client with a template that enables you to either send a bug report or general feedback regarding Paint.NET.

  If you are sending a bug, please make sure to include the following information:

  • A step-by-step description of how to reproduce the problem, error, or crash

  • If you are reporting a crash, please include the contents of the "pdncrash.log" file which is on your desktop (if you can not find this file, then don't worry about it).

  • A brief description of your computer's specifications. This includes the CPU type and speed, amount of memory (not hard drive space), and version of Windows.

• Language

  This submenu will let you choose which language Paint.NET is displayed in.

• Check for Updates

  By default, Paint.NET automatically checks for updates every five (5) days. It only checks for updates while it is running (a background program is not installed to do this), and no personal information is transmitted from your computer during the process (it works by downloading a text file from the Paint.NET website and inspecting its contents).

  

  Clicking on the Options button will show this dialog:

  

  In Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Paint.NET will only check for updates for users who are part of the Administrators group, and will only allow these users to use the Check for Updates command.

  In Windows Vista, Paint.NET will allow any user to check for updates. However, in order to install the update or to change the update options you must provide elevation consent (via UAC), or provide the login credentials for a user with administrator privileges.

• About

  This shows some information about Paint.NET including the copyright and list of contributors.

  

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