Practical Paint.NET: The Powerful No-Cost Image Editor for Microsoft Windows

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P. WhittPractical Paint.NEThttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7283-1_3

3. An Overview of the Paint.NET Tools

Phillip Whitt¹  

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Columbus, GA, USA

 

Paint.NET offers a modest yet capable set of tools to help you with your image editing and creation projects. In this chapter, we’ll take a look at the tools available to you in Paint.NET and how they work.

The topics covered in this chapter are

• Accessing the Tools

• The Selection Tools

• The Move Tools

• The View Tools

• The Fill Tools

• The Drawing Tools

• The Photo Tools

• The Text and Shape Tools

• Chapter Conclusion

Accessing the Tools

Tools can be accessed from either the Tools Window or the Tools Menu. As was mentioned in Chapter