paint.NET 5.1.1 Build 9102 Beta/ 5.1 Stable

paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software for Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface. Supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools.

paint.NET started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing.

 An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

You can use the Paint.NET to enhance and clean up your photographs. Using the Clone Stamp tool, you can carefully remove the power lines that criss-crossed in front of the Space Needle. Every feature and user interface element are immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance.

Features:

Simple, intuitive, and innovative user interface

Every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance. In order to handle multiple images easily, Paint.NET uses a tabbed document interface. The tabs display a live thumbnail of the image instead of a text description. This makes navigation very simple and fast.

Performance: It’s fast. Really fast.

Extensive work has gone into making Paint.NET the fastest image editor available. Starting the app is nearly instantaneous and every feature lets take advantage of the latest multicore CPUs, GPUs, and NVMe SSDs. Whether you have a power-conscious laptop or a monstrous desktop with a gigantic GPU, you can expect Paint.NET to start up immediately, respond quickly to every mouse click, and take full advantage of all of your hardware.

Layers

Usually only found on expensive or complicated professional software, layers form the basis for a rich image composition experience. You may think of them as a stack of transparency slides that, when viewed together at the same time, form one image.

Pen and Drawing Tablet Support

Back by popular demand, Paint.NET 5.0 now supports pressure sensitivity with compatible pens and drawing tablets from Wacom, UGEE, Microsoft, and more. This enables you to draw beautiful, natural-looking brush strokes.

Comprehensive File Format Support

Paint.NET supports a wide variety of popular and standard file formats, including: JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF, DDS, TGA, HEIC, AV1 (AVIF), WebP, JPEG XR, and of course PDN (Paint.NET’s native image type that supports layers). You can add support for more file types with plugins.

Active Online Community

Paint.NET has an online forum with a friendly, passionate, and ever-expanding community. Be sure to check out the constantly growing list of tutorials and plugins!

Automatically Updated

Updates are free and contain new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes. If you are using the Microsoft Store release, updating is done in the background when you aren’t using the app. For the “classic” release, updates only take two clicks and can be installed when you’re finished with your session.

Special Effects

Many special effects are included for enhancing and perfecting your images. Here are everything from blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing. Also you will find unique 3D Rotate/Zoom effect that makes it very easy to add perspective and tilting.

Adjustments will help you tweak an image’s brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, curves, and levels. You can also convert an image to black and white, or sepia-toned.

Powerful Tools

Paint.NET includes simple tools for drawing shapes, including an easy-to-use curve tool for drawing splines or Bezier curves. The Gradient tool has been cited as an innovative improvement over similar tools provided by other software. The facilities for creating and working with selections is powerful, yet still simple enough to be picked up quickly. Other powerful tools include the Magic Wand for selecting regions of similar color, and the Clone Stamp for copying or erasing portions of an image. There is also a simple text editor, a tool for zooming, a Recolor tool, and an extensible Shapes tool, among others.

Changes in paint.net 5.1.1 Build 9102 Beta (2024-12-02):

• Fixed Edit->Cut and Edit->Crop to Selection not zeroing out transparent pixels, which could be a privacy issue.
• Fixed swapchain valid rect propagation, which may fix some cases of flickering or trails that have been reported.
• Fixed some crashes and blanking screen issues related to GSYNC/FreeSync/VRR on some NVIDIA GPUs. The NVAPI profile was not being created which caused VRR to still be active for the app. This also appears to be a bug in NVIDIA’s GPU driver.

Changes in paint.net 5.1.1 Build 9098 Beta (2024-11-28):

• Fixed the inability to load an image with a bad ICC color profile. The color profile will now be ignored and the image will be treated as if it had an sRGB color profile.
• Fixed the crash in the “anycpu” installer if Sentinel One is installed (“0xc000007b”).
• Fixed the hang at app startup if Sentinel One is installed. If S1 is detected then Async Present will be disabled, which negatively affects input latency/lag (it won’t be worse than PDN 5.0). This is temporary until Sentinel One itself is fixed.
• Fixed (maybe/hopefully) some rendering glitches on some systems. Symptoms include mouse trails and a flickering canvas. This was done by disabling swapchain valid rect propagation, which did not seem to be working anyway. The /disableSwapChainValidRectPropagation command-line parameter has been removed as a result.
• Added the /disableSwapChainPresent1 command-line parameter for troubleshooting purposes (will be removed in a future version).

Changes in paint.net 5.1.1 Build 9093 Beta (2024-11-24):

• Fixed more cases of pasting transparent images from Firefox
• Fixed the titlebar text being drawn in the active text color when the window is not active when using Light or Blue themes
• Improved error handling for Direct2D code, should reduce crashes
• Disabled CET and CFG because they may be causing various crashes due to other software on the system
• Fixed a race condition in resource loading that sometimes caused the zoom level in the status bar to display as “ScaleFactor.Percentage.Format”

Changes in paint.net 5.1.1 Build 9087 Beta (2024-11-18):

• Added the ability to choose the fill color when expanding the image with Image->Canvas Size
• Fixed the ability to paste images with transparency from Firefox
• Fixed the ability to paste certain types of images with transparency from Microsoft Office applications
• Fixed a crash in the Levels adjustment UI due to a rounding error
• Fixed some graphical corruption, hang, or crash issues caused by Nahimic A-Volute malware
• Reverted the removal of the Settings checkbox that lets you disable overscroll
• Fixed effects calling Dispose() on the IServiceProvider when they shouldn’t have been. This affected plugins like CodeLab and Plugin Browser.
• Updated the bundled AVIF FileType to version 3.11.0.0

Changes in paint.net 5.1 (2024-11-12):

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Supported Operating Systems:

• Windows 11 or Windows 10 (version 1809 or newer)
• Windows Server 2019 or 2022
• A 64-bit CPU (Intel/AMD x64 or ARM64)
• Optional: A pen or drawing tablet that supports Windows Ink
• Recommended: A 64-bit CPU that supports AVX2
• Recommended: A GPU or APU that supports Direct3D 11, such as an NVIDIA GeForce, AMD Radeon, Intel Arc, Intel Iris (Plus or Xe), or Intel HD/UHD

Size: 123 MB

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