Paint.NET houdt het midden tussen het met Windows meegeleverde MS Paint en een krachtiger fotobewerkingsprogramma, zoals bijvoorbeeld Adobe Photoshop of Corel Paint Shop Pro. Om het programma te kunnen gebruiken heb je Windows 2000, XP of 2003 Server nodig en daarnaast moet het Microsoft .NET Framework geïnstalleerd zijn aangezien Paint.NET in C# wordt ontwikkeld. De vierde bètaversie is sinds kort beschikbaar en is voorzien van de volgende aankondiging:
Paint.NET v2.5 Beta 4 is now available.. If you already have a previous build of v2.5 installed then we prefer that you install this update via the built-in update mechanism within Paint.NET. Simply click on the green circle in the main UI toolbar right below the File menu, or go click the menu item Help -> Updates -> Check Now.
Here is a list of additions, changes, and fixes:Please note that this build will expire on November 15th. An update will be available before then. The final release of v2.5 will not expire.[break]
- Rotate / Zoom dialog now has controls for fine tuning
- Clone Stamp tool now works as expected when the mouse's path crosses itself
- Faster rendering for Move Tool when zoomed in
- Save configuration dialog now has a progress bar when computing file size
- Fixed various Text Tool rendering issues
- Fixed various issues with the Colors toolform not updating properly
- Fixed various keyboard input issues
- Fixed crash when attempting to display .PDN thumbnails in Win2K
- Fixed crash when saving TGA image due to settings data version mismatch