Download Paint.NET 3.35 Beta 1

Yesterday the first beta release of version 3.35 of Paint.NET appeared. This photo editing program is developed in C# and version 2.0 of the .Net Framework is therefore required to run the program. In terms of functionality, the program is somewhere between Paint, which comes standard with Windows, and professional commercial programs such as Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop. Upgrading to the new version can be done from within the program itself, or a 1.51 megabyte web installer from this page are downloaded. The changelog for this release shows the following changes:

New:

• Posterize adjustment, by Ed Harvey.
• Intersect selection mode.

Improved:

• Dramatically improved selection editing performance for the Add and Subtract modes (and also for Intersect). The performance used to be dependent on image size, and thus was often unusable on images larger than 1024×768 pixels. It is now dependent only on selection complexity (number of polygon edges) — the improvement is generally between 3x and 1000x.

changed:

• Hotkeys for selection modes are now Left click for Replace, Control+Left click for Add (union), Alt+Left click for Subtract (difference), Alt+Right click for Intersect, and Ctrl+Right click for Invert (xor).

Fixed:

• Sometimes pasting would result in a crash when certain types of malfored data were on the clipboard.
• It was possible to get around some of the protections imposed by the IndirectUI system. This was causing instability with some plugins.
• There were some issues with the implementation of “linked” sliders in IndirectUI.

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