Your Paint.Net... What do you use it for? (like as a hobby, for fun, for work?)

[RFX]

A post primarily for showing not what you can create but why you create what you do such as the usage. Is it a hobby, for fun, for gaining experience, for work, etc.?

I use it mostly for web design and elements such as buttons plus other general graphics like help diagrams or promo images, and is used where I work. I also create textures for game design but that's more of a hobby than anything else. I like Paint.Net simply because it's small and easy to use not to mention free.

Here's a couple images of how I use it:

Edited August 8, 2014 by RFX

[Goonfella]

Well I use it as a hobby. Ever since I bought my first laptop I wanted to have a go at space scapes and PDN was the first image editing program I downloaded. I also like to try my hand at Photoshop tuts, adapting them to PDN.

I must say RFX your race track looks great. The parts you added here look nice.

[MikeRobe]

I use it for game design, for Tachyon Entertainment (shameless self-promotion). I find it easier to use than GIMP and Photoshop, not to mention it's as good as either when you have pages and pages of plugins!

 

I also use it for drawing whatever I feel like, making mockups of products etc...

[david.atwell]

Mostly web dev.  Resizing, compressing, cropping, that sort of thing.  It's way faster than Photoshop.

[BoltBait]

I use it for both home and work.

At home, I use it to edit digital photos and to clean up scanned stuff.

At work, I use it to create and edit graphics for documentation and for creating graphics for software projects.

[Oceana]

A hobby and an escape from the outside world.

[SAND33P]

I use it as a hobby, for personal experience, for fun, for work and for college

I will soon be using it in conjunction with Cinema 4D

[DarkShock]

Definitely for hobby. I also used it for a few projects when I was in college (projects that I aced).

 

Actually, here's a video of a site I made for a web design class back in 2010.

 

I didn't make the images on the site, but I used Paint.NET to add borders, resize, and edit brightness/contrast.

Edited May 28, 2014 by DarkShock

[johnnysdream]

I use it to reject this reality if only but a few minutes and create my own.

[skullbonz]

I started using it as a hobby and thought I could make some money with art on the side but the art world is not an easy place to make money unless you are a young inspired graphic artist that follows trends closely. I gave up on the money making part and just use it for fun and teaching my grandaughters how to use it now. I have about a dozen art programs on my pc but 95% of the time PDN is my preferred choice.  

[HELEN]

Hobby and for my illustration/graphic design work.

[Humility]

For a Hobby. 

Edited August 26, 2015 by Humility

[teh501stSnoipeh]

Just for fun, mostly. I also use it for gaming purposes, like texture editing (Source Engine is really fun to mess with), and logo design. Not part of a company, I just do it for fun.

[DrewDale]

Mostly as a hobby, a lot more user friendly than photoshop or paintshop and a far better community willing to help out. 

[TrevorOutlaw]

As a hobby, mostly, and to occasionally fix up my photographs.  Once upon a time ago, I tried download an, ah, not so legal copy of Photoshop but my conscience got the better of me, and I scoured the Internet far and wide for the next best thing since peanut butter and Nutella sandwich, and stumbled across Paint.NET.  That was, what, five years ago? Now, I am happy with PDN.

 

But, yeah, it's a hobby machine next to playing with Blender.

[nitenurse79]

These days I use it for everything relating to image creating / editing. My original reason for using it was to tidy up scanned photo's of my family. Now I would be lost without it. 

[TechnoRobbo]

 

I use it as a hobby, and for work (presentations), It's not my only graphics tool but it is my goto app. 

[The Mystical Burrito]

I use it mostly as a hobby and for game design. but now that I am getting used to blender i will be using it along side that for texturing models that I create.

[barbieq25]

Safety valve.  The process of creation, not necessarily the outcome, is essential for my mental stability & others' safety

 

Once, someone liked my work enough to buy a print on dA.  

 

I have also used it in work applications. The boss I & played a trick on other staff showing rats sitting on work desks, keyboards etc. Must have done it a little too well as we hard a hard time convincing staff that it was a photo manip.

[FotoFactory]

I use pdn for Counter Strike workshop.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=277930444

[yy10]

I use it as a hobby. I like making sigs when I'm bored and paint.net is a free program for me to do so.

[DeathSpecteR]

Mainly For lots and lots of editing of games textures.

Memes.

Funny signs.

Web Images.

[JulioCoolio]

I use it for fun and as a hobby. I didn't consider myself an artist until I got this program and started messing around with it and now I feel a bit more creative and artistic.

[teh501stSnoipeh]

I use pdn for Counter Strike workshop.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=277930444

I make Counter-Strike textures, too. Except I don't use Steam Workshop for them, because I currently make them for CS:S, not CS:GO.

BTW, your textures are awesome, when I get Global Offensive, I'll definitely use you weapon skins!

Edited July 23, 2014 by teh501stSnoipeh

[FotoFactory]

I make Counter-Strike textures, too. Except I don't use Steam Workshop for them, because I currently make them for CS:S, not CS:GO.

BTW, your textures are awesome, when I get Global Offensive, I'll definitely use you weapon skins!

CS:GO has to accept the skin first then it will be available ingame