Paint.NET 2.6 Beta 1
Posted by Daylene on 08 January 2006 - 20:11 · 15 comments & 4793 views
Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows 2000, XP, Vista, or Server 2003. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

It started development at Washington State University as an undergraduate 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 setup and shell-integration related functionality.

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Download: Paint .Net 2.6 Beta 1 3.04MB | (Freeware, requires .NET framework)

Paint.NET 2.6 Beta 1 Changelog

  • Fixed a crash under Windows 2000
  • New "Curves" adjustment for editing the color curves of an image
  • UI elements that are drawn on the image canvas are now visible if they go outside the canvas boundaries. This includes the nubs/handles for the Move tools, Line/Curve tool, and the selection outline
  • Optimized Move Selected Pixels tool: its history data is saved in a background thread, it only has to save half as much as it used to, and it is now much more responsive as a result
  • Optimized performance and memory usage of Paintbrush, Eraser, and Pencil tools
  • Optimized performance of Paint Bucket and Magic Wand tools
  • Optimized startup performance
  • Mouse wheel zooming now centers on where the mouse is located
  • Mouse wheel zooming is now more granular/smooth
  • Line/Curve Tool 'nubs' can now be hidden by tapping the Ctrl key
  • Pressing Enter or Esc now finishes a selection with the Move tools
  • Fixed a Paintbrush Tool crash
  • Fixed a Rotate/Zoom bug
  • Fixed many bugs related to scrolling and zooming
  • Fixed some layout bugs related to the Layers form


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(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by JayGorman on 08 Jan 2006 - 23:52
Cool, if I didn't have Adobe Photoshop CS2 I'd probably use this
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by Yvo on 09 Jan 2006 - 04:05
most people cant afford adobe software.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by sullysnet on 08 Jan 2006 - 23:53
yes this is great if you looking for doing simple screen caps and light editing since I'm using Snapit I uninstalled it for now
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by Mad_Griffith on 09 Jan 2006 - 00:34
Screen refers to v2.5
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Gumboot on 09 Jan 2006 - 06:24
The poster probably should have specified this, but this version of Paint.Net has a timebomb (in fact, all the beta versions of this program do). Get version 2.5 if you want a version without a timebomb.
Quote this comment #4.1 Posted by Deelow on 10 Jan 2006 - 20:31
This is so people aren't constantly running old beta versions of the software and then complaining because it has bugs that have since been fixed. It's not like the release versions expire. The program is self-updating, and they always release a new version before it expires. It doesn't seem like too big of a deal to me.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by shirike on 09 Jan 2006 - 10:11
I don't like the toolbar layout - feels like they've made a deliberate decision to try and change from the accepted-norm of Photoshop/PSP X and that just confuses people.

Still, it's got a very small footprint considering the power of its features. Needs better documentation, too, and tooltips could be so much better.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by Lare2 on 09 Jan 2006 - 18:34
Nice app, i just hate that it requires the .net framework
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by m-head on 09 Jan 2006 - 21:40
For a free program, it's great. I think it was a university project or something that escalated....sure I read that somewhere.
Quote this comment #7.1 Posted by halloween_david on 10 Jan 2006 - 09:31
You read that right here in the posting :p
Quote this comment #7.2 Posted by m-head on 10 Jan 2006 - 17:01
lol! I didn't notice that, I only read the changelog.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by miguel_montes on 10 Jan 2006 - 00:18
How can I edit multiple files at the same time?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by Angel Blue01 on 10 Jan 2006 - 17:25
Still doesn't have a glow effect
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #10 Posted by skizatch on 11 Jan 2006 - 03:11
Glow effect = duplicate a layer, set the new layer's blend mode to Screen, then apply a Gaussian Blur filter on it.
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