Microsoft Paint

Paint (formerly Paintbrush) is a simple, ultra-basic graphics painting program that is included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows.

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Paint (formerly Paintbrush) is a simple, ultrabasic graphics painting program that is included with almost all versions of Microsoft Windows. It opens and saves files as Windows bitmap (24bit, 256 color, 16 color, and monochrome, all with the .bmp extension), JPEG, GIF (without animation or transparency), PNG (without alpha channel), and TIFF (without the multiple pages).

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Paint.NET

Paint.NET is a free image and photo editing software. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

Free Windows Windows S

Extensible by Plugins/Extensions Portable Layers support Lightweight Export to PDF Function Key Shortcuts Optimized for fast boot On premises software Layer manipulation Editing photos Convert Photo to Painting Export to PNG PNG Compression Alpha Channel Curve Manipulation Succession Planning Pathways
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Krita

Krita is a complete creative sketching and painting application with advanced, commercial quality features. It's free, open-source and available across all major desktop platforms.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Mac

Customizable Portable Layers support Lightweight Auto aligment rulers Optimized for fast boot Open PSD files Smooth lines Fullscreen support Keyframe animation Texture painting Vector art Tablet Pressure Sensitivity Symmetry brush Page labeling Support for Wacom Tablets
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Pinta

pinta is a free, open source drawing/editing program modeled after paint.net . its goal is to provide users with a simple yet powerful way to draw and manipulate images on linux, mac, and windows.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD Mono

Layers support Lightweight
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MediBang Paint

A lightweight software for illustration and making comic books on Windows and Mac OS.

Free Mac OS X Windows Android Tablet iPad

Layers support Lightweight Tablet Pressure Sensitivity Support for Wacom Tablets Image Smoothing
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LazPaint

LazPaint is a free and open image editor that features layers and transparency. It supports the format OpenRaster so it can interoperate with MyPaint, Gimp and Krita. LazPaint has been written with Lazarus / Free Pascal and BGRABitmap.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Portable Layers support Lightweight

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