Download Paint.NET 3.0 beta 1

After a few alphas, today is the first beta release of version 3.0 of Paint.NET. 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 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 for this release shows the following changes:

changes:

• New effect: Clouds
• New menu command: Edit->Fill Selection (shortcut key: Backspace). This will fill any selected area with the primary color.
• New toolbar item / hotkey: The brush size may be manipulated with +/- buttons in the toolbar. Hotkeys for this are [ and ]and you may hold Ctrl to increment or decrement by 5.
• New translations: They are not complete yet, and in fact some have just been started. They are mostly in place right now in order to get the code correct: Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. You will have the ability to choose one of these languages ​​during installation, and from the Help->Language menu, but the text will still be either mostly or completely English. Complete translations will be finished by February.
• Added left-handed shortcut keys for Cut (Shift+Del), Copy (Ctrl+Ins), Paste (Shift+Ins)
• Upper-left coordinate of selection is now displayed in the status bar
• When moving text with the Text tool, the anchor point coordinate is now displayed in the status bar
• Fixed: In high-DPI mode (120dpi), the color swatch would translate the mouse location to the wrong color palette entry
• Fixed: Alpha-channel handling for bicubic and super-sampling image resampling methods
• Fixed: Very slow download speeds for updates in Vista
• Fixed: In Vista, the updater would relaunch Paint.NET with the same administrator privileges that the installer executed in. Now it will relaunch Paint.NET with the pre-elevation user and privilege level. Note that this fix will not be apparent until the next update to Paint.NET.
• Fixed some layout and rendering issues with the floating tool windows in Vista
• Fixed a rendering issue with the font selection dropdown list
• Fixed a performance issue with the font selection dropdown list in Vista
• Right-clicking on a color in the palette will now set the secondary color
• Palette files now allow comments to be placed after color values
• Fixed: If Edit->Paste in to New Image was pasting a bitmap with transparency (from Paint.NET), it would have a white background instead of a transparent background.
• Fixed: Right-clicking on a .PDN file in Explorer and then selecting “Print” would not work if Paint.NET was already open
• Fixed over 10 user reported crash bugs
• Fixed several out of memory crashes
• Fixes for many other miscellaneous, mostly minor, bugs

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