Software update: Paint.NET 5.0.1

Version 5.0.1 of Paint.NET has been released. This drawing and image editing program bridges the gap between the Paint that comes with Windows and expensive but very extensive programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Corel Photo Paint. The program can be downloaded from the maker’s website, but can also be downloaded from the website for a small fee Windows Store are obtained. Version 5.0 Includes many performance improvements, new features including pressure sensitivity for pens and drawing tablets, and a brand new effects plugin system with GPU rendering support. In this first update we find a small but important collection of improvements and bug fixes.

New:

• Added a button in the toolbar, next to Brush Size, for enabling/disabling pressure sensitivity. The button will only appear if a compatible pen or drawing tablet is detected, and Windows Ink has not been disabled in Settings.

Fixed:

• Fixed some issues with the main window that would only happen on multimonitor Windows 10 systems
• Fixed a few small issues with the Zoom tool
• Fixed an issue when saving a JPEG or TIFF with certain types of 0-length IPTC metadata
• On older systems with multiple GPUs (eg Intel HD iGPU and an AMD/NVIDIA dGPU), where the first enumerated GPU does not support Direct3D 11, PDN will now use the next enumerated GPU that meets the Direct3D 11 requirement, rather than falling back to CPU rendering.
• Fixed a rendering bug when using the Pencil tool on small images exactly 2 pixels wide
• Fixed some crashes on systems with buggy GPU drivers. Paint.NET will try to revert to software rendering in this case.
• Fixed a crash on some systems with multiple pen/tablet devices, where some of the devices were claiming the same cursor ID

Changed:

• All binaries are now digitally signed, not just EXEs and the shell extension DLLs

Updated:

• Updated the bundled AvifFileType plugin to version 1.1.23, which fixes an issue with progressive decoding
• Updated the bundled DDSFileTypePlus plugin to version 1.11.0.0, which now detects files saved with the wrong extension and tries to load the file anyway
• Updated the bundled WebPFileType plugin to version 1.3.16.0, which fixes the detection of misnamed files