Paint.NET 3.5.1

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

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 Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe? Photoshop?, Corel? Paint Shop Pro?, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMWhat's new in version 3.5.1:

• New: For Windows 7, added taskbar progress reporting for long running operations (effects, adjustments, Image->Resize, save, install)
  
  
• Made some corrections to the French translation
  
• Running setup with /auto will no longer launch Paint.NET when it's done
  
• Fixed an issue where Paste into New Image would refuse an image on the clipboard, even if regular Paste would take it
  
• Fixed a race condition with Edit->Paste and Image->Resize whereby it would take up 100% CPU and take between 1 minute to 1 hour to finish
  
• Fixed an issues with Copy/Paste where it would leave an extra line of transparent pixels on the left, top, right, and/or bottom edges
  
• Fixed lag with the paintbrush tool that was being seen on some systems
  
• Fixed some issues with the paintbrush and eraser tool being misaligned when zoomed in
  
• Fixed a crash that would happen at (seemingly) random times, such as after drawing with the paintbrush tool, on some systems
  
• Fixed a minor and obscure rendering glitch with the Move Selected Pixels tool
  
• Fixed an issue with glass over Remote Desktop or Windows 7 Virtual PC
  
• Fixed a minor glitch whereby the "Unsaved Changes" confirmation dialog could never finish rendering the image thumbnail if one of the Move tools was active
  

Link: Paint.NET website

Download: Paint.NET 3.5.1

[.Markus]

Quite nice idea with the progress bar showing the operation being carried out... That's a feature I'd definately welcome in Photoshop!

[Lee G. Veteran]

Nice. I'll upgrade this on my laptop later. Thanks for the heads up.

[Avi]

Smart move to release 3.5.1 so quickly after 3.5 (fixing bugs)... And they even added a nice new feature along the way. :)

[+.Aaron Subscriber¹]

Thanks for the heads up. Updating now.