Everything from blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing are included. Many special effects are included for enhancing and perfecting your images. You may think of them as a stack of transparency slides that, when viewed together at the same time, form one image. Usually only found on expensive or complicated professional software, layers form the basis for a rich image composition experience. This makes navigation very simple and fast. The tabs display a live thumbnail of the image instead of a text description. In order to handle multiple images easily, Paint.NET uses a tabbed document interface. Every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance.

Paint.NET is an image and photo manipulation application.