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.
Install Paint.Net
To install Paint.Net 4.0.17, you can either:
- Download directly at getpaint.net site
- 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."
What's new in Paint.Net 4.0.17
This release includes a number of improvements and bug fixes. Here’s the full change log:
Added: "Fluid mouse input" option in Settings -> UI -> Troubleshooting. If you see major glitches while drawing, try disabling this.
Improved: Default brush size, font size, and corner radius size now scales with major DPI scaling levels (brush size of 2 at 100% scaling, brush size of 4 at 200% scaling, etc.)
Improved: Default image size now scales with major DPI scaling levels (800×600 at 100%, 1600×1200 at 200%, etc.)
Improved performance and drawing latency by removing explicit calls to System.GC.Collect() except when low memory conditions are encountered
Improved performance by greatly reducing object allocation amplification by reducing the concurrency level when using ConcurrentDictionary, and by removing WeakReference allocations in favor of direct GCHandle usage
Improved: Performance and battery usage by ensuring animations always run at the monitor’s actual refresh rate
Improved (reduced) CPU usage when moving the mouse around the canvas
Removed: "Hold Ctrl to hide handle" from the Text tool because it was not useful and caused lots of confusion
Fixed: Various high-DPI fixes, including horrible looking mouse cursors caused by a bug in the latest .NET WinForms update
Fixed: Gradient tool no longer applies dithering "outside" of the gradient (in areas that should have a solid color)
Fixed: Very slow performance opening the Effects menu when lots of plugins are installed after installing the Windows 10 Creators Update
Fixed: When cropping and then performing an undo, the scroll position was totally wrong
Fixed a rendering glitch in the Save Configuration dialog (it would "wiggle")
Fixed: At certain brush sizes, the brush indicator on the canvas had a visual glitch in it due to a bug in Direct2D
Fixed: Text tool buttons for Bold, Italics, Underline were not localized for a few languages
Fixed a rare crash in the taskbar thumbnails
Fixed: Drawing with an aliased brush and opaque color (alpha=255) sometimes resulted in non-opaque pixels due to a bug in Direct2D’s ID2D1RenderTarget::FillOpacityMask
Fixed: "Olden" effect should no longer cause crashes (it still has some rendering artifacts due to its multithreading problems, however)
New: Portable mode can be enabled via a setting in the .exe.config, which will redirect app settings into a local JSON file
Source:
Paint.Net v4.0.17 is now available
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