- Completed Binary Numbers Assignment and printed it
- Met up with my Assignment 1 partner who is interested in a similar program to Paint.NET called GIMP
- Did some background research on Paint.NET and GIMP and started to formulate my review for the two programs
Paint.NET
Main Audience
- It is targeted towards average homes users who wish to simply create and edit a picture (crop, resize, retouch).
- Contains all of the features Microsoft Paint which comes with (Brushes, importation from cameras and scanners) along with many more features (layers, transparencies)
- Has a simple and easy to navigate design
- Also contains layers and transparencies for more advanced users
- Users can also create Add-ons for the program to add more functionality to it
- The program also comes with special effects and multiple brushes for users who wish to add an artistic effect
Speed and Stability
- It is much faster than Photoshop and GIMP during startup due to it being built on Microsofts.NET framework http://www.microsoft.com/net/
- Unfortunately it only runs on Windows operating systems, unlike GIMP which runs on Windows, Mac and Linux
- The program is built only for Windows operating system and is far more stable than GIMP
Price and license
- Free
- Proprietary freeware
Cons
- It is similar to Adobe Photoshop which is a Bitmap based program (It is suited for editing digital photographs) not like illustrator which is vector based (suited for digital drawings)
- Runs only on windows computers
- Proprietary freeware, not open source (The code inside the program cannot be modified or redistributed, although add-ons are permitted)
- Due to this, Paint.NET is unable to run from a USB as a portable application
Gimp
- Still feels like a beta program (The most recent version was recalled due to a fatal bug which caused the program to crash) https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622608
- More features than Paint.NET at the cost of startup time
- Roughly 20mb in filesize
- GNU General Public License
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