A fast, layered image editor.

QuickPaint is a fast image editor for Linux and Windows. Its menus, tools and shortcuts follow Paint.NET, so it feels familiar from the first click; layers, effects, modern file formats, plugins and AI assistant support come with it.

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19tools

42effects

20blend modes

14interface languages

Screens

QuickPaint main window with the Tools, Colors, History and Layers windows

Features

Layers and blend modes

Add, duplicate, merge, reorder and flip layers; set opacity and one of 20 blend modes. Every step can be undone, and the History window jumps to any step.

19 tools, Paint.NET shortcuts

Selections and magic wand, brush, pencil, bucket, 7 gradient types, clone stamp, recolor, text, curves with arrows and 28 shapes. Menus and keys follow Paint.NET.

13 adjustments, 42 effects

Curves, Levels, Hue / Saturation, Exposure and more; blurs, distortions, noise, photo, render and stylize effects with live preview.

Modern file formats

PNG, JPEG, JPEG XL, AVIF, WebP, TIFF, DDS, SVG, OpenEXR and more. Paint.NET .pdn and Photoshop .psd open with their layers; export to PDF and HTML. Pure Rust, no system libraries.

Color management

Embedded ICC profiles are kept and shown with correct colors. Convert or assign sRGB, Adobe RGB, Display P3, ProPhoto RGB or your own .icc profile.

Media Kit for social media

Cut one picture into YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, TikTok and Pinterest sizes, place each crop yourself and export everything as one ZIP.

Plugins

Add effects, adjustments and file types with plugins: dynamic libraries with a small C interface, written in Rust, C, C++ or Zig.

Scanner, camera and print

File > Acquire brings images in from a scanner or camera (SANE on Linux, WIA on Windows). Print, paste from the clipboard or drop files on the window.

How AI fits in

QuickPaint works with AI assistants as well as being built with them: a built-in MCP server and window-less command line let Claude, Cursor or OpenCode convert, resize, crop, apply effects and build media kits, and Help > Connect to AI tools registers it in one step. Development runs on AI coding agents against Paint.NET's documented menus and shortcuts, with about 130 tests and 94% line coverage.

Tech stack

Rust
egui
wgpu
OpenGL
moxcms
JPEG XL
AVIF
MCP
C ABI

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