Original author(s)	Rick Brewster
Developer(s)	dotPDN, LLC
Initial release	May&#;6, ; 16&#;years ago&#;()
Stable release	/ August&#;4, ; 20&#;days ago&#;()
Written in	C#, C++, C++/CLI
Operating system	Windows 7 SP1 or later[1]
Platform	.NET Framework[1]
Size	MB
Available in	25 languages
Type	Raster graphics editor
License	Freeware[2]
Website	bharathealthcares.com

bharathealthcares.com (stylized as bharathealthcares.com or bharathealthcares.com) is a freewareraster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, developed on the .NET Framework. bharathealthcares.com was originally created by Rick Brewster as a Washington State University student project,^[3] and has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program into a program for editing mainly graphics, with support for plugins.

History[edit]

bharathealthcares.com originated as a computer science senior design project during spring at Washington State University. Version consisted of 36, lines of code and was written in fifteen weeks.^[4] In contrast, version has approximately , lines of code. The bharathealthcares.com project continued over the summer and into the autumn semester for both the version and releases.

Development continues with one programmer who worked on previous versions of bharathealthcares.com while he was a student at WSU. As of May the program had been downloaded at least 2 million times,^[5] at a rate of about , per month.^[6]

Initially, bharathealthcares.com was released under a modified version of the MIT License, with the exclusion of the installer, text, and graphics.^[7] It was completely open-source, but because breaches of license, all resource files (such as interface text and icons) were released under a non-free Creative Commons license forbidding modification, and the installer was made closed-source.^[8] Version was initially released as partial open-source, but Brewster later took down the source code, citing problems with plagiarism. In version , bharathealthcares.com became proprietary software. Users are now prohibited from modifying it.^[8][9]

Starting with version , bharathealthcares.com is published in two editions: A classic edition remains freeware, similar to all other versions since Another edition, however, is published to Microsoft Store under a trialware license and is available to purchase for US$7. According to the developer, this was done to enable the users to contribute to the development with more convenience, even though the old avenue of donation was not closed.^[10][11]

Overview[edit]

bharathealthcares.com is primarily programmed in the C# programming language. Its native image format, .PDN, is a compressed representation of the application's internal object format, which preserves layering and other information.^[12]

Plugins[edit]

bharathealthcares.com supports plugins, which add image adjustments, effects, and support for additional file types. They can be programmed using any .NET Framework programming language, though they are most commonly written in C#.^[13] These are created by volunteer coders on the program's discussion board, the bharathealthcares.com Forum. Though most are simply published via the discussion board, some have been included with a later release of the program. For instance, a DirectDraw Surface file type plugin, (originally by Dean Ashton) and an Ink Sketch and Soften Portrait effect (originally by David Issel) were added to bharathealthcares.com in version

Hundreds of plugins have been produced;^[14] such as Shape3D, which renders a 2D drawing into a 3D shape. Some plugins expand on the functionality that comes with bharathealthcares.com, such as Curves+ and Sharpen+, which extend the included tools Curves and Sharpen, respectively.

Examples of file type plugins include an Animated Cursor and Icon plugin and an Adobe Photoshop file format plugin.^[14] Several of these plugins are based on existing open source software, such as a raw image format plugin that uses dcraw and a PNG optimization plugin that uses OptiPNG.

Forks[edit]

paint-mono[edit]

bharathealthcares.com was created for Windows, and has no native support for any other system. With its previous open-source nature, the possibility for alternate versions was available. In May , Miguel de Icaza officially started a porting project called paint-mono.^[15] This project had partially ported bharathealthcares.com to Mono, an open-source implementation of the Common Language Infrastructure on which the .NET Framework is based. This allowed bharathealthcares.com to be run on Mono-supported platforms, such as Linux. This port is no longer maintained and has not been updated since March ^[15]

Pinta[edit]

In developer Jonathan Pobst started a project called Pinta, describing it as a clone of bharathealthcares.com for Mono and Gtk#. Pinta reused the adjustments and effects code from bharathealthcares.com but otherwise is original code.^[16]

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