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Software gems: Paint.net

Posted on January 17, 2022 at 02:43 CST by Will Fastie • Comment in the Forums

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By Will Fastie

Besides having a very interesting history, paint.net is a useful program.

Paint.net has an unusual origin. It was written as a senior project by a computer science student at Washington State University, Rick Brewster. His project was to write a better version of Microsoft Paint, the ubiquitous program that has been part of Windows since the dawn of Windows.

Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 19.03.0 (2022-01-17).

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