No Photoshop? No worry.
There's Paint.NET :) Yes that's right, almost 100% written in MANAGED CODE. I remember using this application when it was released as version 1 on my Windows XP. Although a novel idea at that time, the performance was very sluggish. Perhaps written without optimizing the .NET code. But now, with their latest release v2.72, I can say that it's blazingly fast.
Startup time from zero and uncached, was around 1 second. The entire experience is very slick now, from opening windows, dragging selection boxes and applying Effect filters. Works fine on my Vista RC2. I'm gonna be using this more and more to edit my icons, images etc.
There's a alpha build for their new Version 3.0 that you can try, but mind the dust.
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Anonymous
October 20, 2006
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October 20, 2006
Paint.Net is great. I use it for cropping and editing images for my blog all the time. It makes paint look like a kids toy. Its not as full featured as Photoshop, but that shows in load times, download sizes etc. It still wont replace Photoshop for me, but it is a good alternative for certain tasksAnonymous
October 20, 2006
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October 21, 2006
I use Paint .NET for book and blog illustrations and find it has all the features I need for technical illustration. --rjAnonymous
October 21, 2006
Great catch. I've been following Paint.NET for the past couple of years and it really seems ready for the big time now. I'm going to add it to the Great Software List soon!Anonymous
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May 29, 2008
Paint.NET is so easy to use and powerfull... Definitely a photoshop killer for non professionnal users... http://www.lautre-monde.fr/webtech/paintnet/