Software Update: Paint.NET 4.2.13

Version 4.2.13 of Paint.NET has been released. This drawing and image editing program bridges the gap between the Paint supplied with Windows and expensive but very extensive programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Corel Photo Paint. Today, the program is also offered via the Windows Store offered, although a small fee is charged for that version. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New:

• Added 2-bit per pixel support when saving as PNG
• Added 1-bit per pixel support when saving as PNG, BMP, and TIFF

Updated

• Bundled DDSFileTypePlus plugin to version 1.10.4.0, which fixes an issue when loading and saving images using the sRGB color space. This issue was reported here.

Fixed:

• low-bit-depth saving quality (8-bit, etc.), as it would sometimes produce very bad results (eg only using 64 colors instead of 256)
• Resizing an image at very large sizes (eg 32K pixels to 64K pixels) would fail due to an arithmetic overflow
• Sometimes recently saved images would not have an updated thumbnail in File Explorer unless/until its window was manually refreshed
• Sometimes saving an image to a network share on a network share would not work