Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP or 2000.
Paint.NET is jointly developed at Washington State University with additional help from Microsoft, and is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems.
The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with GDI+ extensions.
Paint.NET has many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers.
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WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.31:
* New: Enabled integration with Window Clippings, which is a high quality screen capture utility by Kenny Kerr
* Fixed: Fixed a crash with the Open/Save dialogs if the Documents or Pictures directories were either inaccessible or if the user did not have certain file system permissions
* Changed / Fixed: The hotkey for Adjustments -> Levels is now Ctrl+Shift+L instead of Ctrl+Alt+L. This was preventing certain characters, such as the Polish '?', from being typed
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.30 Final:
* Italian translation.
* Fragment, added to the Effects -> Blurs menu.
* Ability to save PNG's at 24-bit and 8-bit color depths.
* Ability to save BMP's at 8-bit color depth.
* "Auto detect" option for PNG, BMP, and TGA -- this will analyze the image and choose the lowest bit-depth that can save the image without loss of quality.
* IndirectUI has been extended with new controls and rules, and can now also be used for file type configuration UI.
* Bug fixes.
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.30.2980 Beta 1:
* New: Ability to save PNG's at 8- and 24-bit color depths
* New: Ability to save BMP's at 8-bit color depth
* New: "Auto-detect" bit-depth option for PNG, BMP, and TGA file types. It will analyze the image and determine the lowest bit-depth that can still save the image without quality loss
* New: "Fragment" blur effect, by Ed Harvey
* New: The "Polar Inversion" distortion effect has been enhanced to allow changing the rendering offset, and the behavior for "edge" pixels (clamp, reflect, or wrap)
* New: For developers, IndirectUI can now be used to write configuration UI for file types
* New: For developers, IndirectUI has a new radio button control type for enumerations, and some new property constraint rules
* New: Italian translation
* Fixed: In some cases, an exponential property slider would get "stuck" at some values when using up/down keyboard keys. This mostly affects some effect plugins
* Fixed: When using keyboard navigation, sometimes the File menu would scroll its items out of view
* Fixed: Some crashes that were tracked down to out-of-bounds coordinate values in certain effects
* Fixed: The installer would fail if Paint.NET had never been installed before, and was being installed to any non-default directory. This bug only affected version 3.22
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.20:
* Rectangle Select tool can now draw selections based on a Fixed Size or Fixed Ratio
* The selection combination mode is now accessible from the toolbar (Replace, Add (union), Subtract, Invert (”xor”))
* The “flood mode” for the Magic Wand and Paint Bucket tool are now accessible from the toolbar (Continuous, or Global)
* Reorganized the Effects menu so that all effects are classified under submenus named Artistic, Blurs, Distort, Noise, Photo, Render, and Stylize
* Improved rendering quality for the Motion Blur effect
* Enhanced the Radial Blur effect so that the center of blurring can be chosen, as well as the quality
* Enhanced the Zoom Blur effect so that the center of zooming can be chosen
* Enhanced the Bulge distortion effect so that the center of “bulging” can be chosen
* Enhanced the Frosted Glass distortion effect in several ways: 1) performance has been improved from between 1,000% to 10,000% depending on image size and property settings, 2) the scatter radius can now be set up to 200 pixels, 3) a “minimum” scatter radi
* Enhanced the Tile Reflection distortion effect by adding a Quality property
* Enhanced the Twist distortion effect by 1) allowing counter-clockwise twisting, 2) allowing the size of the twisted area to be configured, 3) allowing the location/center of twisting to be chosen
* Enhanced the Add Noise effect by adding a “coverage” property
* New Mandelbrot Fractal and Julia Fractal render effects
* New IndirectUI system for plugin authors so that they can develop much more sophisticated effect configuration dialogs with a fraction of the amount of work that used to be required
* If an effect plugin crashes, it is much more likely that Paint.NET will be able to recover from the error. The option to restart Paint.NET will then be provided as a recommended course of action
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.20.2879 Beta 1 / 3.10:
* Note: New features will be displayed in English through the Alpha and Beta release(s). The final release will include full translations for the other supported languages
* Improved: Updating performance should now be faster. It used to be the case that two system restore points were created during update (one for uninstall, and one for re-install), but now only one is created to cover the entire transaction
* Changed: Ctrl+Alt+0 now works for "View actual size". This is not listed in the View menu as a shortcut, but should help those used to keyboard commands from Photoshop, etc
* Changed: Some plugins that were causing stability problems are now blocked from loading. They will show up in the File->View Plugin Load Errors dialog
* Changed: Old effect plugin DLL's that have since been integrated into Paint.NET (Glow, Portrait, etc.) are now blocked from loading
* Fixed: For revamped effect configuration dialogs, the first textbox is now auto-selected instead of the OK button. This makes keyboard usage more convenient
* Fixed: Close/Cancel button flickering while downloading an update
* Fixed: The floating tool windows (Tools, History, Layers, Color) will double-check that they are on-screen when they are toggled on/off
* Fixed: If two images had the text tool active and both had active text being edited, then Backspace would not always be routed to the correct image
* Fixed: Open/Save dialogs in Windows Vista with high-DPI would sometimes have garbled thumbnail rendering (fixed by adding "high DPI aware" flag to EXE manifest instead of using SetProcessDPIAware function)
* Fixed: Some minor high-DPI glitches in new UI features
* Fixed: For newly revamped effect configuration dialogs, the focus rectangle ("dotted rectangle") for sliders is drawn only when necessary
* Fixed: Several rare crashes
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.20.2865 Alpha / 3.10:
* Note: New features will be displayed in English through the Alpha and Beta release(s). The final release will include full translations for the other supported languages.
* New: Ability to do 'Fixed Size' and 'Fixed Ratio' selection drawing with the Rectangle Select tool
* New: Added selection 'combine mode' (replace, add, subtract, xor) to the toolbar. This makes this feature much more discoverable.
* New: Added magic wand / paint bucket 'flood mode' (contiguous, global) to the toolbar. This makes this feature much more discoverable.
* New: Mandelbrot and Julia fractal render effects.
* New: Implemented new property and UI systems that makes it much easier to develop effect plugins. Authors may now specify properties with default, min, and max values and the UI for this will be dynamically generated. (instead of the author having to spend hours writing WinForms code)
* New: Better error handling for plugin effects. They will no longer crash Paint.NET, and will provide easier access to the diagnostic and support information.
* New: If a plugin fails to load, then a "View Plugin Load Errors" item will be added to the File menu.
* New: Added 'Coverage' property to the Add Noise effect.
* New: Added 'Center' (offset) property to Radial Blur, Zoom Blur, Bulge, and Twist effects. This allows you to set the center of rendering, complete with an image underlay preview.
* New: Added ability to do counter-clockwise rotation in the Twist effect. Also added ability to change the size of the twisted area in the Twist effect.
* Changed: In Frosted Glass effect, the performance was highly optimized. Increased max radius to 200 (instead of 10), and added 'minimum scatter radius' and 'smoothness' properties.
* Changed: Enhanced all built-in effects and adjustments (except for Layers, Curves, and Rotate/Zoom) to use the new effect UI system.
* Changed: Reorganized Effects menu into categories: Artistic, Blurs, Distort, Noise, Photo, Render, Stylize.
* Changed: Command link buttons now look better in Windows Vista.
* Changed: Moved 'Median' from the Blurs menu to the Noise menu.
* Changed: Rendering for the 'angle chooser' control is nicer now.
* Fixed: Header label flickering in some parts of the UI.
* Fixed: Some window activation issues with the Save Configuration Dialog if you switched to another program and back while it was open.
* Fixed: Some buttons and checkboxes were not honoring the theme animations in Windows Vista.
* New: Added text to installer to remind people that Paint.NET is free of charge, and if they paid for it (other than to donate), then they should ask for a refund (e.g. eBay swindlers).
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.10 Beta:
* Note: For the beta, the new features are only presented in English. The final release will have complete translations for the other supported languages.
* New: Soften Portrait effect, by David Issel
* New: Ink Sketch effect, by David Issel
* New: DirectDraw Surface (DDS) file format support, by Dean Ashton. Improved from the original source code by optimizing the DXT compression library ("Squish") to take advantage of multiple cores or processors.
* Improved: Visual fit-and-finish for the Layers window.
* Improved: Visual fit-and-finish for the close / 'X' button on image thumbnails.
* Changed: The keyboard shortcut key for the Color Picker is now 'k'. This makes it so that the toolbar option, "After click: Switch to previous tool", is not useless for those using the keyboard shortcuts.
* Fixed: Pressing Ctrl+[ no longer cancels out of drawing a line/curve, but instead decreases the brush size by 5 as expected.
* Fixed: Ctrl+clicking on the brush size +/- buttons now changes the brush size in increments of 5
* Fixed: Save Configuration dialog would "creep downward" from its last position every time it was opened again
* Fixed: TGA codec now saves the # of alpha bits to the image descriptor byte. This was causing some other applications to load TGA files saved with Paint.NET as solid black images.
* Fixed: Clicking the 'X' to close the Layer Properties dialog was not reverting changes made to the layer while the dialog was open.
* Fixed: Installation will not proceed unless Paint.NET is closed, and will also not allow Paint.NET to be opened until installation is completed. This helps to ensure a fully coherent and complete installation or update.
* Fixed: In Vista, it was possible to crash the Save As dialog by typing a filename that was too long.
* Fixed: In Vista, it was possible to crash the updater if you let the UAC prompt time-out.
* Fixed: It was possible to crash Paint.NET on some systems by clicking on a tool in the Tools window while the "Save As" dialog was open.
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.05:
* This is a minor update that adds a new effect, improves certain parts of the user interface, and fixes a few minor bugs.
* New: Pencil Sketch effect
* New: In Windows Vista, the new-style Save/Open dialogs are used. Among other things, this enables Search functionality.
* Changed: The View->Units, Image->Flip, Image->Rotate, and Layers->Flip submenus have been "flattened" (their commands were moved out into the View, Image, Image, and Layers menus respectively)
* Improved: Download size reduced by about 300 KB by using PNGOUT
* Improved: Some uses of confusing "MessageBox" style dialogs have been changed to a much friendlier "TaskDialog" style interface
* Improved: When changing the language, Paint.NET can now restart itself automatically
* Improved: Better performance for Move Selected Pixels tool for quad-core systems.
* Removed: The "Clear History" button has been removed because it was not very useful
* Fixed: Sometimes the Colors window would get "lost" between sessions of Paint.NET
* Fixed: Stack-overflow crash when using certain effects, such as Gaussian Blur, on very large images with certain settings (such as a 200 pixel radius)
* Fixed: When cancelling the multi-image Unsaved Changes dialog, the input focus was sometimes confused
* Changed: Renamed PdnLib.dll to PaintDotNet.Core.dll
* Fixed: Very rare race condition in background thumbnail renderer
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.0 Beta 3:
* More complete translations, especially for German
* Fixed: All known high-DPI scaling and layout issues. The UI should work great at 96, 120, 144, and 196 DPI screen resolution settings
* Fixed: Some toolbar layout issues
* Fixed: Thumbnail renderer had a race condition in its renderer thread which prevented proper shutdown in a few rare cases
* Fixed: Crash when shutting down the system
* Fixed: View->Grid did not work right
* Fixed: History and rendering problems when typing text with the Text tool and then using Image->Flip
* Fixed: Some selection text reporting a "0 x 0" selection when it shouldn't have been
* Miscellaneous tweaks and fixes
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 3.0 Alpha 1:
* Brand new Multiple Document Interface (MDI) with tabs that show thumbnails for all the opened images
* Colors window now supports a color palette, along with the ability to manage multiple named custom palettes
* Colors window now uses value sliders that more clearly show how the color is being manipulated
* Floating windows now better support docking and snapping, and remember their positions across sessions
* Brand new icon and logo, including full 256x256 icon so that it looks great on Vista
* Toolbar is context dependent: only the toolbar items relevant to the current tool are shown
* Tolerance control moved to the toolbar
* Ability to choose default values for toolbar items, as well as the tool that is selected at startup
* Ability to draw with "smooth" or "sharp" text. Smooth text is good most of the time, and sharp text is good for when 'smooth' doesn't look good (sometimes for small text), or for doing GUI mockups
* UI for update checking, downloading, and installing is better
* "Edit -> Paste in to New Image" replaces "File->Acquire from Clipboard", and is accessible with Ctrl + Alt + V
* Updates and Language commands moved to Help menu
* History window now uses much less memory and significantly fewer User/GDI handles
* Session temporary data is now compressed if the file system is NTFS. This results in less disk I/O and thus higher performance
* Font list dropdown loads much quicker
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.70:
* New effect: Glow
* New effect: Bulge
* New effect: Polar Inversion
* New effect: Tile Reflection
* New effect: Twist
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.63:
* Built-in updater now works in Vista without having to use "Run as Administrator" beforehand (UAC permission is still required to install updates)
* Fixed a color intensity calculation that had Red and Blue swapped (affects Brightness/Contrast adjustment, and some plugins)
* Fixed .PDN images with transparency having a black background in their Explorer thumbnail
* Fixed crash when an image has bizarre DPI settings (such as 6 billion DPI)
* Fixed crash when an image has an invalid resolution unit specified (neither pixels, inches, nor centimeters)
* Fixed a few rare race conditions which resulted in crashes
* Fixed a rare crash with the history
* Fixed crashlog being created when the updates dialog appears over another modal dialog
* Fixed crashlog not reporting application version with certain damaged installations
* Placed a clickable Windows Live OneCare ad in the Setup wizard
WHAT'S NEW IN VERSION 2.62:
* Small icon (16x16) is brand new, redesigned so that it is clearer
* Application resolution is no longer virtualized in high-DPI mode in Windows Vista
* Fixed race-condition related crash with Edit->Paste and Move Selected Pixels tool ("Object is in use elsewhere")
* Fixed some font related crashes that occur when standard fonts are corrupt or missing
* Fixed a crash that sometimes occurs when trying to save files whose name begins with a period
* Fixed a rare division-by-zero crash in the Clone Stamp
* Fixed rare crash related to scanning
* Mitigated rare crash that can happen in various places, ("GetRegionData returned false, GetLastError() = 6")
* Improved crash log reporting
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