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Changing Colors In A Picture Using Paint.net

Changing Colors In A Picture Using Paint.net

This is really a cool skill to know. You can change the color of about any photo. (Black & White ones don't work well). All you need is Paint.net (requires Microsoft .NET Framework to be installed).

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Step 1Get Paint.net

First of all, you need to download Paint.net. The following link should let you download it:

http://www.dotpdn.com/files/Paint.NET.3.30.zip

You must also install Microsoft .NET Framework. A window will come up while you are installing Paint.net telling you how to get Microsoft .NET Framework.

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17 comments

Apr 13, 2008. 10:42 AMtrebory6 says:

Oh my god. Paint.NET FTW!

Apr 13, 2008. 11:34 AMShadow Dragon (author) says:

LOL. Yeah. :D

Apr 26, 2009. 4:06 PMCyber.Wolf says:

No, not really. Gimp FTW!!!! Because not only does it have a Windows base (???(large user group)), but it really has a large Linux base (and a lot (if not most) (free-time) developers use Linux) BTW, I've used both programs and mainly Paint.NET feels sluggish (if I remember right) and short on possibilities. BTW: Great Instructable, I will try it later on. Greetings from Holland (1.05 a.m., yes in the night ;-D

Oct 10, 2009. 7:24 PMJavaNut13 says:

Paint.NET doesn't have the functionality that the GIMP has..

Sep 18, 2009. 11:30 AMmowie says:

oh yea well im in australia and its 4:30 am xDD and im only 14......

Oct 30, 2009. 10:38 PMcoolbill14 says:

sounds like me!

Jul 20, 2009. 9:56 PMgreenbean says:

Don't even start about Linux. This was developed by college students as a project. Most campuses don't use Linux.

Jul 21, 2009. 12:33 AMCyber.Wolf says:

So the servers on campuses don't run on Linux? They don't want stable servers on campuses, that odd. Remind me never to go to campus in America. Because a lot of corporate servers run on Linux because of it's stability :-D and of course cheap in comparison to Window$. Anyhow, I just mentioned Linux because in contradiction to Paint.NET, THE GIMP works on Linux & WINDOWS, so that it has 2 communities (1 Linux, 1 Windows). So that's the reason why THE GIMP is FTW!

Jul 21, 2009. 3:51 PMgreenbean says:

Wtf is ftw?

Jul 21, 2009. 4:09 PMCyber.Wolf says:

For The Win :-D (so that term isn't widely used by you Americans? At least EVGA uses it on some of her motherboards)

Jul 21, 2009. 5:18 PMgreenbean says:

C'est merde. Et vous ne parlent pas le français dans néerlandais monde. Cul visage. Et pourquoi pensez-vous que je suis américain???

Jul 21, 2009. 5:20 PMgreenbean says:

Je ne suis pas Americain!

Jul 21, 2009. 5:27 PMgreenbean says:

In case you're wondering, Monsieur LookAtMeImSoDutch, some do not like to look like nationalistic énorme ânes. What does you being from Holland have to do with anything? If we were talking about countries, maybe, but are we? NO

Jul 21, 2009. 11:07 PMCyber.Wolf says:

Well beg my pardon for presuming that you we're from the other side of the world, but did you really need 3 posts just to say you aren't from America? But now you've made me curious, from which country are you then? Canada of France?

Oct 8, 2009. 5:47 PMgreenbean says:

Well, I would think that you would be able to tell, since you did so well guessing the first time. Exactly. You can't presume that everyone on this site is American. Many people on this site are not, as proven by you own nationality. Why do you have you uselessly brag about being "foreign"? Get some other source of self esteem, really. And it is Belgium.