Download Paint.NET 3.0 beta 3

The developers of Paint.NET released the third beta version of their image-editing program on December 23. This piece of software owes its name to the fact that it is developed in C# and that features from version 2.0 of the .NET Framework are used extensively, which is therefore necessary to run the program. Originally, Paint.NET was intended to replace Paint, which is standard in Windows, but the program is now capable of much more and is slowly becoming a competitor for Paint Shop Pro and Photoshop. Since the previous beta version, which was released about two weeks ago, the following changes have been made:

• More complete translations, especially for German
• Fixed: All known high-DPI scaling and layout issues. The UI should work great at 96, 120, 144, and 196 DPI screen resolution settings.
• Fixed: Some toolbar layout issues
• Fixed: Thumbnail renderer had a race condition in its renderer thread which prevented proper shutdown in a few rare cases
• Fixed: Crash when shutting down the system
• Fixed: View->Grid did not work right
• Fixed: History and rendering problems when typing text with the Text tool and then using Image->Flip
• Fixed: Some selection text reporting a “0 x 0” selection when it shouldn’t have been
• Miscellaneous tweaks and fixes

Paint.NET 3.0 beta 3 in Japanese | Click on the image for a larger version