Paint.NET
Free image editor
From the site:
Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.
Paint.NET also depends on Microsoft's .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, which is automatically installed if it isn't already on the system.
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** Beware the multitude of decoy links to get to the actual download.
Latest install used by me is attached below. You can install that one and then it can check for its own updates. Add .exe to the file name after download.