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 5.1.2 changelog:
- Improved (reduced) CPU and GPU usage of the canvas, which leaves more CPU time for things like input processing. This was done by enabling VSync while also utilizing the DXGI Frame Latency Waitable Handle to minimize latency.
- Fixed some screen blanking issues for some systems that have buggy MPO (multiplane overlay) support.
- Fixed flickering and mouse trails for systems that have NVIDIA Fast VSync enabled (NVIDIA driver bug).
- Fixed a hang while making changes to the Transparency Checkerboard Brightness setting when certain legacy plugins are installed.
- Fixed a crash in the Levels adjustment UI if it was canceled or closed too quickly.
- Added a /diagnostics command-line parameter that shows the diagnostics info without having to start up the whole app.
- Added convenience constructors to most of Direct2D"s built-in effects (for GPU effect plugin authors).
- Added a PrimitiveBlendEffect for GPU effect plugins. This wraps ID2D1BlendTransform which is normally only available for use within the transform graph of a custom effect.
- Added ability for plugins to work with CMYK (PixelFormats.Cmyk32/64 and ColorCmyk32/64 structs)
- Updated the DDS FileType Plus plugin to v1.12.12.0 (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
