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System Requirements

Minimum System

  • Windows 7 (recommended),
       or Windows XP SP3,
       or Windows Vista SP1 (SP2 and Platform Update recommended)
  • 800MHz processor (dual-core recommended)
  • 512MB of RAM
  • 1024 x 768 screen resolution
  • 200+ MB hard drive space
  • Optional: 64-bit mode requires a 64-bit CPU and a 64-bit edition of Windows

Paint.NET also depends on Microsoft's .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, which is automatically installed if it isn't already on the system.

Please note that Paint.NET uses your hard drive to store temporary files related to undo/redo history. Because of this, actual disk space requirements will depend on the actions you perform on an image, and on the size of the image.


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Version

Date

Language

Size

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3.5.10

Oct 9
2011

English, Chinese (Simplified),
French, German, Italian,
Japanese, Korean,
Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish

3.5 MB

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Documentation
The documentation, or help file, for Paint.NET is also available online:
Documentation (help file) for Paint.NET
Plugins
There are a number of plugins that have been made available, and that may be downloaded on our forum. These plugins add new effects and the ability to handle new file types.

You may browse and download the plugins here..

Buttons
Spread the word about Paint.NET! Simply copy and paste the code below into your web page as HTML. Both buttons are 79 x 20 pixels.

Logo
Simply right-click and save the image to where you wish to use it. Note that, while the logo is cased as "paint.net", the preferred form in text is to capitalize the first letter and the .NET part of the name, like so: "Paint.NET". There is no space before or after the period.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. Permission is granted to use the logo and icon artwork in ways that discuss or promote Paint.NET (e.g. blog and news posts about Paint.NET, "Made with Paint.NET" watermarks or insets).

A higher resolution version is available here.


 

License
The Paint.NET license, along with answers to frequently asked questions, is available by clicking here.

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