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P. WhittPractical Paint.NEThttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7283-1_1

1. An Overview of Paint.NET

Phillip Whitt1  
(1)
Columbus, GA, USA
 

Now that you’ve been introduced to Paint.NET, we’ll cover the steps required to acquire and install the program. Then we’ll start our general overview of Paint.NET.

The topics covered in this chapter are

  • System Requirements

  • Acquiring and Installing Paint.NET

  • The Main Window

  • Menus

  • The Settings Dialog

  • The Color Scheme

  • Supported File Formats

  • Installing BoltBait’s Plugin Pack

  • Chapter Conclusion

System Requirements

Paint.NET works on Windows systems with these specifications (these are the minimum requirements):

  • Windows 10 (version 1607 “Anniversary ...

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