- Download directly at paint.net 4.0 Beta 2 (Build 5168)
- For 4.0 beta build user, you can use the built-in updater from a previous 4.0 beta build.
- For version 3.5.11 user, you can use the built-in updater from v3.5.11 if you have "Also check for pre-release (beta) builds" enabled.
Please Do NOT use this paint.net 4.0 Beta release on production machines. A paint.net 4.0 Beta release should be considered for evaluation and testing purposes.
Overview
The paint.net is free image and photo editing software for Windows users. 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. It is very simple and easy to use, and specially designed to be learned through intuition without assistance or manuals. paint.net features the tabbed interface where the tabs show a live thumbnail in place of a text. These thumbnails make it easy for users to see which images they need to open when work with multiple images.
paint.net has been compared to some of the commercial digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.
paint.net 4.0 comes with a brand new, asynchronous, fully multithreaded rendering engine. It also improvements to various tools and a tweaked user interface.
Here is some of the most prominent changes in paint.net 4.0:
A brand new, asynchronous, fully multithreaded rendering engine
- Performance scales very well with respect to the number of CPU cores, whether you have 2, 4, 6, or even 16 of them.
- Performance scales much better with large, or even huge, images. Rendering will slow down and you will see tiles "trickling" in as they are completed, but the UI will still be responsive to your changes and clicks.
- The canvas now uses hardware acceleration via Direct2D, which also improves performance.
- Memory usage is lower.
Selections have been improved in many ways
- Antialiased selections. You may turn this on/off at any time from the toolbar.
- Selection outlines are now rendered with the "dancing ants" animation.
- Performance of selection rendering and manipulation (Move Selection tool) have been fantastically improved.
General UI
- The functionality previously provided by the Utilities, Window, and Help menus has been simplified, consolidated, and moved to the top-right corner of the main window.
- A brand new Settings dialog makes it much easier to configure all the tool and toolbar defaults, among other things.
- The zoom slider and units selector have been moved from the toolbar to the bottom right corner of the window (into the status bar).
- The image thumbnail list is now left-aligned and does not move around when you switch between certain tools.
- The image thumbnail list can now be reordered with drag-and-drop.
- Updated theming to a white, blue, flat motif.
You can find the full changelog here.
What's new in paint.net 4.0 Beta (Build 5168)?
Build 5168 comes with a number of improvements as well as bug fixes. Here are the changes between the previous build (5152) and this one (5168):
- Added new languages: Dutch, Finnish, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal).
- Fixed many typos and clumsy translations in various languages.
- Fixed the main window growing taller and flashing black after being minimized and then restored.
- Fixed the tools committing their changes to the image when trying to exit the application (waste of CPU/disk).
- Fixed the current layer not being preserved when using one of the Image -> Rotate commands.
- Fixed keyboard shortcuts not working in some cases if the mouse was positioned over the toolbar.
- Fixed some inappropriate text wrapping in drop down boxes in German (the text is now clipped with "..." instead).
- Fixed the Recolor tool's shortcut mistakenly being 'e' instead of 'r'.
- Pressing 'A' now cycles through the shapes when the Shapes tool is active (Shift+A cycles backward).
- Fixed mouse input centering for the brush tools when antialiasing was disabled.
- Re-enabled Ctrl+D as a "commit" button.
- Moved the "Finish" button (green checkmark) to the end of the toolbar and included the "Finish" text so that it is easier to aim at.
- Fixed some font previews rendering as gray instead of black.
- Fixed a crash that was most easily reproducible by copying an image from IE11 and then clicking on File->New Image.
- Image close buttons are now appropriately styled on Windows 7.
- Fixed a dangling progress bar after running some effects.
- Fixed some drifting color value problems in the Colors window when changing Hue, Saturation, and/or Value.
- Fixed a crash caused by 3rd-party visual themes that try to use fonts that don't exist.
- Fixed a crash when toggling a layer's visibility while using the Move Selected Pixels tool and then undoing.
- Fixed a crash when opening an image due to not being able to create the thumbnail for the File -> Open Recent list.
- Fixed a crash on startup due to the user's My Documents folder not existing.
- Changed the canvas background color to gray when using the Blue theme.
- Fixed an error whereby committing an action, changing the active layer, undoing, and then redoing would cause the action to be redone on the new layer instead of the one it was originally drawn on.
- Fixed shortcut keys not working for toggling line styles and caps for the Shapes tool.
- Fixed some styling issues in the Settings dialog in the Tools section.
- Fixed some delayed crashes with some effect plugins which would happen when trying to do an action afterward.
- Fixed a crash caused by pressing Escape while drawing a shape.
- Fixed many plugin compatibility and crash issues.
System Requirements
Minimum system requirements
- Windows 7 SP1 or newer.
- A dual-core (or more!) CPU is highly recommended.
- .NET Framework 4.5 is now required, and will be installed if needed.
Note: Windows XP and Windows Vista are no longer supported.
Source:
paint.net 4.0 Beta Build 5168
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