Enkele dagen geleden is er een nieuwe ontwikkelversie van het fotobewerkingsprogramma Paint.NET uitgebracht. Paint.NET heeft minimaal versie 3.5 SP1 van het .NET Framework nodig en werkt daardoor alleen op Windows XP of hoger. Bijwerken kan bij voorkeur vanuit het programma zelf, maar downloaden is ook een optie. In versie 3.5 heeft de gebruikersinterface een opfrisbeurt gekregen. Zo zijn er nieuwe icons en kan het op Windows Vista en 7 van Aero gebruikmaken. Verder zijn er diverse nieuwe effecten, start het programma sneller op en is de text-tool volledig herschreven. Hieronder is te vinden wat er sinds versie 3.5.1 allemaal in het programma veranderd is:
Changes since version 3.5.1:
- All font variants (Arial vs. Arial Narrow, etc.) are now available with the Text tool in Win7/Vista with DirectWrite.
- Bitmap font types (Courier, Terminal, Fixedsys) are now available with the Text tool in Win7/Vista.
- Fixed some bad kerning with the Text tool at small sizes when antialiasing was turned off, with Win7/Vista + DirectWrite.
- Bilinear and Bicubic resampling for Image->Resize have improved quality, correctness, and performance. Super Sampling also has some performance improvement.
- Improved the rendering quality for the Hue/Saturation adjustment, as originally discussed here. Also made a new icon for it.
- The Move Selected Pixels tool had many subtle (and not-so-subtle ) rendering issues which are now fixed. These were readily apparent when rotating or flipping a selected area.
- Fixed: The Line/Curve tool was applying pixel snapping to the curve nodes, which caused lines to "bend" when using the Shift key to constrain the angle.
- Fixed some extraneous CPU usage related to unnecessary or redundant thumbnail updates.
- Fixed a few dialogs that looked wrong with Aero glass with Remote Desktop or Virtual PC.
- Fixed a nasty memory leak with Flatten followed by Undo.
- Fixed some issues related to effects that took awhile to cancel -- as it turns out, drag-and-drop was enabled at this time, which could easily lead to crashes. Now, a dialog box will be shown when an effect takes "too long" to finish or cancel.
- Some Win7 systems could not detect that .NET 3.5 SP1 was installed, even though it was. A fallback detection function has been added.
- For plugin authors, the Effect class now has a pollable IsCancelRequested property. This can be used to improve responsiveness for expensive OnSetRenderInfo() implementations, which are otherwise non-interruptible.
- For plugin authors, the Surface.FitSurface() method is now multithreaded.

Paint.NET 3.5.2 bèta build 3653 screenshot, klik op de afbeelding voor een grotere versie.