{"id":4698,"date":"2009-01-23T09:50:03","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T14:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?page_id=4698"},"modified":"2009-01-23T09:50:03","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T14:50:03","slug":"paint","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/software-trends\/paint\/","title":{"rendered":"Paint.NET Trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/paintnetlogo.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;background-color: #FEEB84;margin:5px 0px 5px 10px\">\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-size:20px;color:white;background-color:#A93A1C;padding:5px;font-style:italic;text-align:center\">Software Research<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding:0px 20px 5px 5px;\">\n<ul class=\"post\" style=\"font-size:20px;list-style-position: outside;list-style:circle;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/category\/research\/\">Research Home<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?page_id=4101\">Software Trends Home<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?page_id=4678\">Skype Trends<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?page_id=5648\">Avira AntiVir Trends<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?page_id=4748\">Google Chrome Trends<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?page_id=4104\">Mozilla Firefox Trends<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?page_id=4131\">OpenOffice.org Trends<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?page_id=4136\">Thunderbird Trends<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?page_id=4698\">Paint.NET Trends<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?page_id=4692\">AVG Anti-Virus Trends<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?page_id=4188\">VLC Media Player Trends<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?page_id=4184\">7-Zip Trends<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?page_id=4179\">Audacity Trends<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?page_id=4695\">FileZilla Trends<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Paint.NET is an open-source photo editing application. Its features include unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.<\/p>\n<p>Originally intended as a free replacement for Windows Microsoft Paint program, it has now blossomed into a powerful, but easy to use, photo and image editor tool.  It has come full circle now competing with the best digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color:white;text-align:center;font-style:italic;\">Paint.NET popularity now appears to be increasing with portable users.<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" onmouseover=\"return tooltip('&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=2&gt;Desktop users tend to install this program more than Portable users.&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;A few more Desktop users appear to have decided on Paint.NET, while Portable users are still undecided.&lt;\/font&gt;');\" onmouseout=\"return hideTip();\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/PAINTARPCtype.php\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color:white;text-align:center;font-style:italic;\">Business Use of Paint.NET is on a upward trend.<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" onmouseover=\"return tooltip('&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=2&gt;Business made huge increases during 2008, even surpassing home use .&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;There was never a huge gap in home and business prevalence during 2008, but now it appears that home has leveled off while business is trending upwards.&lt;\/font&gt;');\" onmouseout=\"return hideTip();\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/PAINTARloc.php\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color:white;text-align:center;font-style:italic;\">Australia Leads by a small margin<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" onmouseover=\"return tooltip('&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=2&gt;Australia leads the world in Paint.net installations by a very small amount over ROW.&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; Paint.NET has a worldwide installed base, but yet another program not receiving much popularity in the United States.&lt;\/font&gt;');\" onmouseout=\"return hideTip();\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/PAINTARRegion.php\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"color:white;text-align:center;font-style:italic;\">Paint.NET is More Popular with Males<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" onmouseover=\"return tooltip('&lt;b&gt;&lt;font size=2&gt;The Attach Rate Trends by Gender Appears to be Heading in Opposite Directions.&lt;\/b&gt;&lt;br \/&gt;In recents months, there appears to be a divergence in the prevalence of Paint.NET installed by gender.&lt;\/font&gt;');\" onmouseout=\"return hideTip();\" src=\"\/graph_lib\/research\/PAINTARGender.php\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Software Research Research Home Software Trends Home Skype Trends Avira AntiVir Trends Google Chrome Trends Mozilla Firefox Trends OpenOffice.org Trends Thunderbird Trends Paint.NET Trends AVG Anti-Virus Trends VLC Media Player Trends 7-Zip Trends Audacity Trends FileZilla Trends Paint.NET is an open-source photo editing application. 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