7 Useful Paint.NET Plug-ins for Web and UX Designers

Nadee — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:13:26 +0000

Paint.NET (paint-dot-net, or PDN) is probably the best freeware out there for quick and easy pixel manipulation for Windows. Although it doesn’t boast Photoshop or GIMP like features, simplicity and super-fast startup time makes it a modest substitute for a fully blown graphics application. The PDN plug-in repository makes it even more interesting with a whole array of great plug-ins. This post is about 7 interesting plug-ins I stumbled upon while exploring the plug-in repository (Forum) that may be potentially useful web designers and UX designers alike.

Prologue

I use Paint.NET 3.36 on a Microsoft Windows XP Professional 64-bit workstation with 2GB of DDR2 RAM and ATI FireGL V3300 Dual-head display adapter. Installing a plug-in is a snap. Just copy the plug-in DLL to the relevant directory. For example, if the installation path of PDN is C:\Program Files\Paint.NET, then effects plug-ins should be copied to the Effects folder and file type plug-ins should be copied to the FileTypes folder.