---
title: "Free Software for Digital Photo Editing"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/free-software-for-digital-photo-editing-t6opvvey0
source_url: https://www.getpaint.net/
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-03-30T16:09:40.784Z
updated: 2025-09-06T02:35:02.113Z
tags: ["image-editing", "photo-editing", "windows"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 8
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# Free Software for Digital Photo Editing

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 1 min read · 8 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

Free software for digital photo editing with intuitive user interface, layers, special effects, and community support.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://www.getpaint.net/>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@etsi0** · 3 upvotes

> i personally prefer [photopea](https://www.photopea.com/)

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Tags: [#image-editing](https://daily.dev/tags/image-editing), [#photo-editing](https://daily.dev/tags/photo-editing), [#windows](https://daily.dev/tags/windows)

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