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Publisher's Description:

Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with a small amount of C++ for installation and shell-integration related functionality.

Paint.NET is freeware, but the team is accepting donations here.

Latest Changes:

• New: Italian translation
• 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, added a Color Wheel control to IndirectUI for use in effect plugins
• New: For developers, added ability to customize certain properties of the effect configuration dialog via IndirectUI
• 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
• Changed: Most effects and adjustments, including plugins that use IndirectUI, have been visually refreshed. The new look is cleaner and more compact. These changes are shown in more detail at Paint.NET Blog Archive Cleaning up the UI for Paint.NET v3.30
• Fixed: Various UI issues with the Levels adjustment
• Fixed: When pasting text into the Text tool with Ctrl+V, it would hide the nub for moving the text
• Fixed: If the startup tool was set to the Zoom or Pan (Hand) tool, then the toolbar would render incorrectly
• Fixed: Thumbnails for PDN images now include transparency, which improves their appearance in Windows Vista

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Source / Download: FileForum
Open Source

YAYitsAndrew

I love this program! I use it for work all the time. The PNG depth features in this version will be really useful.

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Iria

Me, too. I love this program.