Download Paint.NET 3.30 beta 1

The first beta release of Paint.net 3.30 was released on Friday. This photo editing program owes its name to the fact that it is developed in C#, and version 2.0 of the .Net Framework is therefore required to run the program. Paint.net is in terms of functionality between the Paint included with Windows and professional commercial programs such as Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop. Upgrading can be done from within the program itself, or there is a 1.51 megabyte web installer available this page are downloaded. New in this release is, among other things, the ‘fragment blur’ effect and the possibility to save png files with a color depth of 8 and 24 bit. The full changelog for this release is as follows:

New:

• Ability to save PNGs at 8- and 24-bit color depths.
• Ability to save BMPs at 8-bit color depth.
• “Auto-detect” bit-depth option for PNG, BMP, and TGA file types. It will analyze the image and determine the lowest bit-depth that can still save the image without quality loss.
• “Fragment” blur effect, by Ed Harvey
• The “Polar Inversion” distortion effect has been enhanced to allow changing the rendering offset, and the behavior for “edge” pixels (clamp, reflect, or wrap).
• For developers, IndirectUI can now be used to write configuration UI for file types.
• For developers, IndirectUI has a new radio button control type for enumerations, and some new property constraint rules.
• Italian translation.

Fixed:

• In some cases, an exponential property slider would get “stuck” at some values
• using up/down keyboard keys. This mostly affects some effect plugins.
• using keyboard navigation, sometimes the File menu would scroll its items out of view.
• Some crashes that were tracked down to out-of-bounds coordinate values ​​in certain effects.
• The installer would fail if Paint.NET had never been installed before, and was being installed to any non-default directory. This bug only affected version 3.22.

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