Paint.NET (Beta) 3.30.2980 Beta 1

Posted by erbing

February 29, 2008

Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing. The programming language used to create Paint.NET is C#, with a small amount of C++ for installation and shell-integration related functionality.

Paint.NET is freeware, but the team is accepting donations here.

Paint.NET has the following other editions available: Paint.NET.

Latest Changes:
New: Ability to save PNG’s at 8- and 24-bit color depths
New: Ability to save BMP’s at 8-bit color depth
New: “Auto-detect” bit-depth option for PNG, BMP, and TGA file types. It will analyze the image and determine the lowest bit-depth that can still save the image without quality loss
New: “Fragment” blur effect, by Ed Harvey
New: The “Polar Inversion” distortion effect has been enhanced to allow changing the rendering offset, and the behavior for “edge” pixels (clamp, reflect, or wrap)
New: For developers, IndirectUI can now be used to write configuration UI for file types
New: For developers, IndirectUI has a new radio button control type for enumerations, and some new property constraint rules
New: Italian translation
Fixed: In some cases, an exponential property slider would get “stuck” at some values when using up/down keyboard keys. This mostly affects some effect plugins
Fixed: When using keyboard navigation, sometimes the File menu would scroll its items out of view
Fixed: Some crashes that were tracked down to out-of-bounds coordinate values in certain effects
Fixed: The installer would fail if Paint.NET had never been installed before, and was being installed to any non-default directory. This bug only affected version 3.22

Download: Paint.NET 3.30 Beta 1 (1.59 MB)