Paint.NET is an image and photo manipulation application. Every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance. In order to handle multiple images easily, Paint.NET uses a tabbed document interface. The tabs display a live thumbnail of the image instead of a text description. This makes navigation very simple and fast.
Usually only found on expensive or complicated professional software, layers form the basis for a rich image composition experience. You may think of them as a stack of transparency slides that, when viewed together at the same time, form one image.
Many special effects are included for enhancing and perfecting your images. Everything from blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing are included. Also included is our unique 3D Rotate/Zoom effect that makes it very easy to add perspective and tilting.
Adjustments are also included which help you tweak an image"s brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, curves, and levels. You can also convert an image to black and white, or sepia-toned.
What"s new in this version:
- New: Added a "Fill" property to the Paintbrush tool
- Faster: Move Selected Pixels has been significantly optimized.
- Faster: Magic Wand Tool has been significantly optimized.
- Faster: Working with aliased selections ("aliased selection quality" in the toolbar) has been significantly optimized.
- ​Faster: Edit->Copy and Edit->Copy Merged are now up to 2x faster.
- Faster: Drawing when a selection is active; clipping performance is now improved.
- Fixed: The Text tool no longer produces terrible looking text when using Smooth rendering mode without antialiasing.
- Fixed: The Gear shape had a few glitches.
- Fixed: Using a Fill pattern w/ the Paint Bucket would sometimes produces misaligned or "corrupt looking" results.
- Fixed: The alignment of the menu buttons in the top-right was off by 2 pixels, causing them to look weird at high-DPI.
- Fixed: The zoom buttons in the status bar would not recognize clicks unless the main window was already in focus.
- Fixed: Some incorrect errors about requiring Windows 7 SP1 when launching the installer from something like an old version of WinZip.
- Fixed: Edit->Clear Selection and Edit->Cut were filling with transparent black (#00000000) instead of transparent white (#00FFFFFF). This caused some discrepancies compared to older versions of Paint.NET.
- Fixed: Pressing Ctrl+A when a drawing tool was active would sometimes incorrectly show a tinted selection.
- Fixed: Text in the title bar was not visible when using a 3rd party Aero theme with black titlebars.
Download: Paint.NET 4.0.4 Build 5442 Beta | 6.2 MB (Freeware)
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