Paint.Net 4.0.4 Final Now Available for Download

Paint.Net has been updated to version 4.0.4. This update includes performance optimizations in the Magic Wand and Move Selected Pixels tools. It also fixes some important bugs, and even gives back a feature that got lost in the move from 3.5 to 4.0.

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.x comes with a brand new, asynchronous, fully multithreaded rendering engine. It also improvements to various tools and a tweaked user interface. More information about Paint.Net 4.x available here.

What's new in Paint.Net 4.0.4
This release contains a number of bug fixes, and performance improvements. Here’s the full change log:

• New: Added a ‘Fill’ property to the Paintbrush tool (regression from 3.5).
• Faster: Move Selected Pixels has been significantly optimized.
• Faster: Magic Wand Tool has been significantly optimized.
• Faster: Working with aliased selections ("aliased selection quality" in the toolbar) has been significantly optimized.
• Faster: Edit->Copy and Edit->Copy Merged are now up to 2x faster.
• Faster: Drawing when a selection is active; clipping performance is now improved.
• Fixed: The Text tool no longer produces terrible looking text when using Smooth rendering mode without antialiasing.
• Fixed: The Gear shape had a few glitches.
• Fixed: Using a Fill pattern with the Paint Bucket would sometimes produces misaligned or "corrupt looking" results.
• Fixed: The alignment of the menu buttons in the top-right was off by 2 pixels, causing them to look weird at high-DPI.
• Fixed: The zoom buttons in the status bar would not recognize clicks unless the main window was already in focus.
• Fixed: Some incorrect errors about requiring Windows 7 SP1 when launching the installer from something like an old version of WinZip.
• Fixed: Edit->Clear Selection and Edit->Cut were filling with transparent black (#00000000) instead of transparent white (#00FFFFFF). This caused some discrepancies compared to older versions of Paint.NET (regression from 3.5).
• Fixed: Pressing Ctrl+A when a drawing tool was active would sometimes incorrectly show a tinted selection.
• Fixed: Text in the title bar was not visible when using a 3rd party Aero theme with black titlebars.

Install Paint.Net
To install Paint.Net 4.0.4, you can either:

• Download directly at getpaint.net site
• If you’re using Paint.Net v3.5.x, go to the Utilities menu and click on "Check for Updates." If you’re using a Paint.Net v4.0.x, go to the Settings dialog, then to the Updates section, and then click "Check Now."

Source:
Paint.Net v4.0.4 is now available