What is Paint.NET ?

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins


There is a plugin for Paint.NET using which users can easily open and edit the PSD files. You don’t need to have Adobe Photoshop for this. Follow the steps given below to open PSD files inside Paint.NET.

1. Download Paint.NET PSD plugin from here.
2. Extract the dll file to C: \ Program Files \ Paint.NET \ FileTypes
3. Start Paint.net and done.

Features:

• Layers
• Masks (loading only: merged into the layer)
• RLE-compressed files
• The following color modes can be loaded.
  • 32 Bit-RGBA
  • Gray scale
  • Indexed
  • CMYK
  • Multichannel CMY
  • Duotone (as gray scale)
  • Lab
• Only RGBA images are saved out, since Paint.NET uses RGBA internally.

Download PSD plugin for Paint.net