Download Paint.NET 3.5.3 Beta Build 3685

A beta of the photo-editing program Paint.NET was released on Wednesday. Paint.NET requires at least version 3.5 SP1 of the .NET Framework and therefore only works on Windows XP or higher. Updating is preferably possible from within the program itself, but downloading is also an option option. In version 3.5, the user interface has been refreshed. For example, there are new icons and it can use Aero on Windows Vista and 7. There are also several new effects, the program starts up faster and the text tool has been completely rewritten. Here’s what’s changed in this release:

Changes in Paint.NET version 3.5.3 Beta, build 3685:

• Fixed a mismatched file name issue with the File->Save dialog in Win7/Vista, as originally reported here. This issue is still present on XP but cannot be fixed.
• Fixed DirectDraw Surface (.DDS) file format support for CPUs which do not have SSE2 (Pentium III, Athlon XP).
• Fixed some crashes which were actually supposed to be “out of memory” error dialogs (without a crash!).
• Fixed a race condition with the New Image, Resize, and Canvas Size dialogs. If you typed very very fast you could get it to crash by typing a negative value and immediately pressing OK or Enter..
• Removed splash screen.

Paint.NET 3.5.2 beta build 3653 screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.