Download Paint.NET 2.70

We haven’t been able to enjoy the first beta release of version 2.70 of Paint.NET for long, because the final release is already ready. This photo editing program gets its name from the fact that it is developed in C#, which means that the .NET Framework is required to run the program. It once started as a graduation assignment at Washington State University under the supervision of Microsoft, but is now a standalone product. In this release the system requirements have been tightened up a bit and some effects have been added. The release notes have the following to say about it:

This is a small interim release that includes many of the popular effect plugins we have written that users have enjoyed using with Paint.NET v2.6x. We have decided to release this as a “.1” update now so that more users may benefit from these plugins, as opposed to waiting until the final release of v3.0 to include them (which could be awhile).

With this release we have also refreshed Paint.NET’s system requirements. We now list 256 MB as the minimum memory required instead of 128 MB. This is in line with what we have seen to be a more reasonable minimum system for using Paint.NET. Also, Windows XP users must now have SP2 installed (SP1 was required before), Windows 2000 users must have SP4 installed (SP3 was required before), and Windows Server 2003 users must have SP1 installed (no SP was required before).

• New effect: Glow
• New effect: Bulge
• New effect: Polar Inversion
• New effect: Tile Reflection
• New effect: Twist

[break]The following downloads are available:
Paint.NET 2.70 without .NET Framework 2.0
Paint.NET 2.70 with .NET Framework 2.0[break]