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| Format | Best For | Warning | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | .PNG | Web graphics, transparency, lossless compression. | File size large. | | .JPG | Photographs, small file size. | Generations degrade quality. Never re-save a JPG as a JPG. | | .GIF | Simple animations, flat color logos. | Max 256 colors. Banding will occur. | | .TGA | Game textures, 3D software. | Uncompressed. Huge files. |

Version 5.0+ Published by the Open-Source Imaging Collective Chapter 1: The Philosophy of Raster Editing Paint.NET occupies a unique stratum between the spartan minimalism of Microsoft Paint and the byzantine complexity of Adobe Photoshop. It is a raster graphics editor, meaning it manipulates images as grids of individual pixels, not mathematical curves (vectors). paint.net user manual pdf

"The Magic Wand selects the background behind my transparent image." Solution: Transparency is a color (alpha=0). Disable Overwrite Alpha or lock transparency on the layer. Alternatively, use Alpha Threshold in newer versions. Appendix: The Moral of Pixels Paint.NET will never manage your assets, non-destructively edit raw files, or render 3D text with a single click. That is not a failure. It is a philosophy: You control the pixels directly. | Format | Best For | Warning | | :--- | :--- | :--- | |