• Software gems: Paint.net

    SOFTWARE

    Will Fastie

    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).