Download Paint.NET 3.0 RC1

After three beta releases, the first release candidate of version 3.0 of Paint.NET was released yesterday. 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. It once started as a graduation assignment at Washington State University under the supervision of Microsoft, but is now a standalone product. Version 3.0 brings a lot of changes, but unfortunately that also means that both Windows 2000 and the Itanium versions of Windows are no longer supported. New is, among other things, the so-called ‘Multiple Document Interface’, which shows all open images by means of thumbnails. The changelog of this release looks like this:

Changes in this release:

• New: New default color palette (you may have to use “Reset to default palette” to see it)
• Finished: Help file is now up-to-date for 3.0.
• Finished: UI translations for Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. Note: Help file is still English-only.
• Fixed: Status bar was not displaying help text for tools on first click
• Fixed: “Rotate Image” was hanging
• Fixed: Crash in installer when /createMsi was used
• Fixed: “ScratchSurface already borrowed…” crash fixed in several places
• Fixed: Spacebar was not activating command link buttons
• Fixed: Zoom dropdown was not always working when set to “100%” in some specific cases

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