Download Paint.NET 3.05 beta

Yesterday a new beta release of Paint.NET was released, namely version 3.05 beta. 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. Normally there are two downloads available; a download of around five megabytes for people who already have version 2.0 of the .NET Framework installed, and a download of just over fifty megabytes for people who don’t have it yet or don’t know if they have the right version. However, with beta releases, only the first one is available. It may also be interesting to know that since version 3.0 the minimum system requirements have been increased and Windows 2000 is no longer supported. The changelog for this release shows the following changes:

New:

• Pencil Sketch effect
• In Windows Vista, the new-style Save/Open dialogs are used

changed:

• The View->Units, Image->Flip, Image->Rotate, and Layers->Flip submenus have been “flattened” (their commands were moved out into the View, Image, Image, and Layers menus respectively)
• Renamed PdnLib.dll to PaintDotNet.Core.dll

Improved:

• Download size reduced by about 300 KB by using PNGOUT
• Some uses of confusing “MessageBox” style dialogs have been changed to a much friendlier “TaskDialog” style interface
• When changing the language, Paint.NET can now restart itself automatically
• Performance for Move Selected Pixels tool for quad-core systems

Removed:

• The “Clear History” button has been removed because it was not very useful

Fixed:

• Sometimes the Colors window would get “lost” between sessions of Paint.NET
• Stack-overflow crash when using certain effects, such as Gaussian Blur, on very large images with certain settings (such as a 200 pixel radius)
• When canceling the multi-image Unsaved Changes dialog, the input focus was sometimes confused
• Very rare race condition in background thumbnail renderer

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