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Paint.NET: how to install Plugins

  • Jan 22, 2026
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The free image editing Tool Paint.NET you can additionally extend with Plugins. How to install this, we show in our practical tip.

Additional plug-ins in Paint.NET install

  1. Find first matching Plugin in the network and down load it - about the "Paint.NET PSD Plug-in" with the files from Photoshop can open.
  2. Usually it is in the appropriate Downloads to ZIP files. You need to extract it first to get to the included.DLL file.
  3. This file then copy to the installation directory of Paint.NET. You will find, by default, "C:\Programme\paint.net\".
  4. Here there are several folders, each for different types of Plugins available. A Plugin like the. PSD file extension you will have to copy in the folder called "FileTypes". A Filter plug-in you must put in the folder "Effects".
  5. When you start Paint.NET the next Time, it loads the Tool, the Plugins automatically and you can use them.
This manual refers to Paint.NET in the Version 4.0.1 under Windows 8.1. If you are still not a lot of pictures edited, we will show you on the next page, the most important entry-level functions of Paint.NET.

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