Paint.NET (Beta) 3.5.3591 Beta 4 Fileforum Pick

4.5 out of 5 stars 4.5 (70 votes)

BETA (October 31, 2009)

Windows 2003/Vista/XP / Open Source / 10,686 downloads

Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. 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 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 installation and shell-integration related functionality.

Paint.NET is freeware, but the team is accepting donations here.

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  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    Diam0nd

    Reviewing 3.5.3591 Beta 4 (Nov 2, 2009)

    I hate .net languages and imho 99.9% of all net-based applications suck. But this is a work of art and truly a testament of HOW .net applications should be written and done.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    mjm01010101

    Reviewing 3.5.3591 Beta 4 (Nov 2, 2009)

    This appears to be getting much closer:

    Fixed some miscellaneous small issues and crashes
    Optimized performance in a few places, especially undo/redo and copy/paste
    Korean translation has been removed. Sadly, we were unable to find the resources to complete this.
    Other translations are now complete: Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Spanish.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    mjm01010101

    Reviewing 3.5.3572 Beta (Oct 13, 2009)

    * Fixed a performance glitch with some tools, where the action and subsequent undo/redo would be slow.
    * Reduced temporary memory usage of commands in the Image menu.
    * Reduced disk space use by about 12MB by using NTFS compression on installation files related to staging (.MSI) and diagnostics (.PDB).
    * Fixed many clipping issues with tools and effects with respect to an active selection.
    * Improved compression for .PDN images.
    * Fixed many small miscellaneous glitches and crashes.

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    thartist

    Reviewing 3.5.3561 Beta (Oct 2, 2009)

    this is the official Beta 2.
    Getting more and more lovely with each release, and still light as a feather and non bloated. Marvelous.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    mjm01010101

    Reviewing 3.5.3561 Beta (Oct 2, 2009)

    Changes here:
    http://www.getpaint.net/roadmap.html

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