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.
Paint.NET 5.1.1 changelog:
- Added the ability to choose the fill color when expanding the image with Image->Canvas Size
- Fixed the ability to paste images with transparency from Firefox
- Fixed the ability to paste certain types of images with transparency from Microsoft Office applications
- Changed Edit->Cut and Edit->Crop to Selection to completely zero out pixels outside of the selected area, which could otherwise be a privacy issue.
- Fixed the inability to load an image with a bad ICC color profile. The color profile will now be ignored and the image will be treated as if it had an sRGB color profile.
- Fixed the titlebar text being drawn in the active text color when the window is not active when using Light or Blue themes
- Reverted the removal of the Settings checkbox that lets you disable overscroll
- Fixed a crash in the Levels adjustment UI due to a rounding error
- Fixed a race condition in resource loading that sometimes caused the zoom level in the status bar to display as "ScaleFactor.Percentage.Format"
- Fixed some graphical corruption, hang, or crash issues caused by Nahimic A-Volute malware
- Worked around a crash ("0xc000007b") in the installer caused by Sentinel One antivirus.
- Worked around a hang at app startup if Sentinel One antivirus.
- Fixed many cases of screen blanking, rendering glitches, and crashes on systems with certain NVIDIA GeForce GPUs, and certain displays with support for overlays and/or VRR (FreeSync, GSYNC). This appears to be a bug in NVIDIA"s driver.
- Fixed effects calling Dispose() on the IServiceProvider when they shouldn"t have been. This affected plugins like CodeLab and Plugin Browser.
- Updated the bundled AVIF FileType to version 3.11.0.0 (thanks @null54!)
Download: Paint.NET 64-bit | Portable 64-bit ~100.0 MB (Freeware)
Download: ARM64 | Portable ARM64
Links: Paint.NET Website | Release Announcement | Screenshot
