Er is een bètarelease van Paint.NET versie 4.0.4 verschenen. Zoals de naam al doet vermoeden, heeft dit programma het .Net-framework nodig om zijn werk te kunnen doen. Het is ooit begonnen als een studieopdracht van de Washington State-universiteit, ter vervanging van het met Windows meegeleverde Paint, maar bevat inmiddels een hoop functionaliteit die we ook in uitgebreidere, commerciële pakketten terugzien. Versie 4.0 werkt een stuk sneller, zeker op multicore-processors, maar heeft wel minimaal Windows 7 als systeemvereiste. Versie 4.0.4 bevat onder meer diverse prestatieverbeteringen en bugfixes.
New:Faster:
- Added a 'Fill' property to the Paintbrush tool
Fixed:
- Move Selected Pixels has been significantly optimized.
- Magic Wand Tool has been significantly optimized.
- Working with aliased selections ("aliased selection quality" in the toolbar) has been significantly optimized.
- Edit->Copy and Edit->Copy Merged are now up to 2x faster.
- Drawing when a selection is active; clipping performance is now improved.
- The Text tool no longer produces terrible looking text when using Smooth rendering mode without antialiasing.
- The Gear shape had a few glitches.
- Using a Fill pattern w/ the Paint Bucket would sometimes produces misaligned or "corrupt looking" results.
- The alignment of the menu buttons in the top-right was off by 2 pixels, causing them to look weird at high-DPI.
- The zoom buttons in the status bar would not recognize clicks unless the main window was already in focus. (more info).
- Some incorrect errors about requiring Windows 7 SP1 when launching the installer from something like an old version of WinZip.
- Edit->Clear Selection and Edit->Cut were filling with transparent black (#00000000) instead of transparent white (#00FFFFFF). This caused some discrepancies compared to older versions of Paint.NET.
- Pressing Ctrl+A when a drawing tool was active would sometimes incorrectly show a tinted selection.
- Text in the title bar was not visible when using a 3rd party Aero theme with black titlebars.