Paint.NE3.510.4297.28964 / 3.511.4975.22963 Beta
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Regardless of the sill level of users, everybody needs to have a graphic editor installed on their computer. Experts commonly prefer Photoshop, provided they can afford to purchase a license, or they can try a freeware app called Paint.NET. Without trying to replace Adobe's software, this utility brings almost all the features one might require to generate professional-looking designs and attractive projects.
Before installing Paint.NET, one needs to make sure they have a recent version of .NET Framework installed, otherwise, the setup process will also include it. There are two modes of installation, Quick and Custom, the first one advisable for the beginner users, while the latter is more likely to be chosen by the experts.
File associations can be easily made, thus making Paint.NET the default software for opening (and subsequently editing) graphic files on the computer. It should be mentioned that even if it is not the default app, all supported formats can still be processed from within the main window of the application.
It takes some time for Paint.NET to finish installing, but once it completes, users are met with a clean and well-organized interface, that requires some time getting used to in order to operate it successfully. Novices surely appreciate the multitude of buttons that can perform both basic functions like cut, crop or rotate, as well as more advanced ones as color picking, clone stamping or overlaying a new layer.
One of the features experts find especially handy is the full keyboard support, meaning that all actions can be completed by pressing dedicated hotkeys, thus reducing the time it would take locating the appropriate menu or button.
Experimenting with the menus reveal additional adjustments and effects that can be applied to enhance any artistic project: layer editing, invert colors, posterize, image sketch, blur or sharpen, distort, emboss or even fractals.
To sum it up, any graphic expert needs to take Paint.NET for a spin at least once, to analyze its large array of features and chances are they decide to use on a regular basis.
What's New in This Release:
· Fixed: The Gaussian Blur effect was incorrectly calculating alpha values for non-opaque pixels.
· Improved performance of the Sharpen effect by about 25%
· Improved performance of the Median effect by about 30%
· Improved performance of the Fragment effect by about 40%
· Improved performance of the Unfocus effect by about 100%
· Reduced memory usage when many selection manipulation operations are in the history/undo stack (the undo data is now saved to disk)
· The built-in updater now supports upgrading to paint.net 4.0 (when it's available)
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