Loading GIMP under Windows also seems to take much longer than it should. For people who don't need all the features in GIMP, Paint.NET seems to be a really nice alternative.

Explore the reasons why, despite its open-source benefits, Inkscape hasn't fully replaced Illustrator for this designer, including window sizing issues, lack of animation tools, slow performance ...

It's a giant leap above Microsoft Paint, and a serious alternative to bigger, bloated (for most users, at least) image editors like Photoshop or GIMP. (Click the image above for a closer look.) ...

Paint.NET is a fully-featured alternative to more complex and hard-to-grasp image editors like GIMP. Its simplicity is its core strength, but it also contains advanced features that help you ...

Paint.NET is the best full-featured yet lightweight image editor for Windows, and weblog CyberNet introduces a few of its most basic features. Most of ...

And it's free. Download GIMP 2. Paint.NET Microsoft's Paint application has always been the absolute barebones tool for image editing.

If you've got an Android device lying around and like to use the GIMP image editor on Linux, you've got all you need for a basic graphics tablet setup thanks to a new app.