Download Paint.NET 3.05

We haven’t been able to ‘enjoy’ the beta for long, because the final of version 3.05 of Paint.NET has just been released. 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. New in this release is, among other things, that the screens for opening and saving files look different under Windows Vista. Some screenshots of it are in this topic on the Paint.NET forum. The full changelog for this release is as follows:

New:

• Pencil Sketch effect
• In Windows Vista, the new-style Save/Open dialogs are used. Among other things, this enables Search functionality.

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
• Better performance for Move Selected Pixels tool for quad-core systems. This issue is documented and explained here,

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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