A Paint replacement with more tools
PowerPaint is a comprehensive image editor that lets you modify photos and even create your own drawings.
There are a lot of desktop painting programs out there available to download. Some even come as standard when you buy a new Windows PC.
PowerPaint's developers post that PowerPaint is "the best tool to replace Windows Paint." By all accounts, it certainly boasts more features than its stripped down counterpart. Even in the "Image" drop-down menu alone, you can turn your drawing or photograph gray, halftone, invert the blacks and whites within the picture, adjust the brightness and contrast and much more. PowerPaint also comes with a bunch of pre-made basic shapes, lines, arrows, stars and banners. These are just simple examples of clipart, but it's certainly convenient to have them already installed.
In addition, PowerPaint has different types of texture brushes to add special effects to your images. You can fill in the background with a specific color and even insert an additional photograph into the image you're already working with.
It's no substitute for the more powerful programs like Paint Shop Pro or Adobe Photoshop, but PowerPaint is a pretty handy and free image editing alternative.
User reviews about PowerPaint
by Anonymous
Major flaw makes it useless.
This is simple raster graphics program that expands on the functionality of the Paint Program in Windows XP, but it may not appear to be such an attractive alternative for Windows 7 users because Microsoft radically revamped Paint for this OS. It is marred by a serious flaw that will never be remedied. This is that when an image is opened that is too big for the workspace scroll bars are not generated so that you can see the hidden portion of the image. More
by Anonymous
Major flaw makes it useless..
PowerPaint has a shortcoming that makes it useless in my opinion. If you paste in an image that is too big for the workspace, parts of it are cut off, rather than scroll bars appearing so that you can scroll across to the hidden portions. It has not been updated since 2009, so it has effectively been abandoned with this major flaw unremedied.
Pros:
Plenty of tools. Layers
Cons:
Scroll bars are required around the work space More