paint.NET 5.1 Build 9023 Beta / 5.0.13

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 Build 9023 Beta (2024-09-14):

• Changed: Upgraded to use .NET 9.0 (RC1)
• Changed: Migrated Direct2D presentation system from DirectComposition to Windows.UI.Composition
• Fixed: Rotate/Zoom had really broken rendering with particular image sizes, such as 13830 x 7485 px (which was 4 tiles wide by 2 tiles tall)
• Known Issue: Title bars of dialog boxes will sometimes start out as white and then fade to black, instead of just being black (bug in .NET 9.0 RC1, already fixed for 9.0 RC2)
• Changed: Plugins may no longer use BinaryFormatter
• Updated the bundled AVIF FileType to version 3.10.0.
• Updated the bundled DDS FileType Plus to version 1.12.11.

Changes in paint.net 5.1 Build 9004 Beta (2024-08-26):

• Improved: GPU memory usage when working with multiple images has been massively reduced
• Greatly improved performance (framerate) for the canvas on integrated and lower-tier GPUs
• Removed: Settings -> Color Management -> “Use the display’s color profile.” Color management with respect to the display is now handled exclusively by Windows and requires a display configured for High Dynamic Range (HDR) or Wide Color Gamut (WCG).
• Improved: Windows Advanced Color is now used for the Colors and Layers window, as well as for image thumbnails at the top of the main window. They are no longer limited to sRGB and can display the full range of colors defined by each image’s embedded color profile.
• New: Effects -> Render -> Clouds now has a tab for configuring the colors used for rendering
• New: Effect plugins are now provided “managed” environmental colors (primary, secondary, palettes). You can use these with IndirectUI by using a ManagedColorProperty (for a color wheel UI), and you can use them to render with Direct2D with the ManagedColor.Get(IDeviceContext) instance method.
• Changed: the minimum OS requirement is now Windows 10 v21H2 (it used to be Windows 10 v1809)
• Updated: The bundled AVIF FileType plugin has been updated to version 3.9.1
• Updated: The bundled DDS FileType Plus plugin has been updated to version 1.12.9

Changes in paint.net 5.0.13 (2024-03-06):

• New: Latvian (lv) translation
• Fixed the Colors window sometimes showing up at weird sizes if the system scaling (DPI) was changed between sessions
• Fixed a crash in the Simulate Color Depth plugin (reported by @toe_head2001)
• Updated the list of libraries/contributors in the About dialog with some libraries that got missed (mostly from Microsoft)
• Fixed some clipped/invisible text in the installer when going through the Custom flow
• Added the GPU driver version to Diagnostics info
• Fixed HistogramEffect’s Bins property
• Updated the bundled AvifFileType plugin to version 1.1.30.0 (thanks @null54!)

Homepage – https://www.getpaint.net

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: 104 MB

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