It's called
Paint.NET and it is not by Microsoft!!!!!!
It is a program like photoshop or Paint Shop Pro etc.
but the price is not between 300€ and 3000€, it is exactly 0,000000000€

I myself HAVE got photoshop but I nearly don't use it!! Paint.net loads faster, works faster, you need about 150% clicks less and if you're making paintings for aircraft and scenery you even get the same results. The only things it's really less good, is working on high quality real photos.
To use it you need .Net Framework 2.0 or higher.

Here some screenshots: (sorry I needed to compress them really hard)



And here the menu for corrections, effects have an extra one:

I'll stick with Photo Shop C3

how do you get the bit mpas into paintnet ? i cant figure it out

Luse wrote on Aug 13^th, 2007 at 2:48am:

If these are textures in Extended BMP format you will need a texture converter like DXTBmp to convert them for editing.

I've been using Paint.Net for a couple of months now and I think it's great. There are quite a few plugins you can download for it that can make it copmatible with Photoshop files, for example. Also lots of manipulation effects.

Best of all it's 100% compatible with Windows Vista. Brilliant!


Fantastic!

Halp.
I downloaded it but .NET Framework or something?
What do I need? 

To add to JonH's comment - I downloaded the latest available beta (3) version which *inlcudes* support for the dds format.  Basically, you can open one of the default dds textures directly, no conversion needed.

Crussell wrote on Aug 23^rd, 2007 at 12:58pm:


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Generally, you have to be very careful, and/or prepare the texture for repainting.  carefully select the windows, doors, etc. and make them into their own layer.

*always* repaint on a new layer, leaving the original texture layer "locked" so you can use it as your "reference".

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The only program that *I* know where you can see a 3D rendition of the model and see your changes as you make them is Abacus'  FSRepaint! *now in version 2 compatible with FS-X dds textures*.