Paint.NET 3.5 Released!

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Brandon LeBlanc
06:49 PM Saturday
Nov 07, 2009
14 Comments

Yesterday, Rick Brewster announced that the final release of Paint.NET 3.5 is now available for download.

I had blogged about one of the initial beta releases of Paint.NET 3.5 back in August. Paint.NET 3.5 utilizes DirectWrite in Windows 7 to render text (instead of GDI). As I wrote back in August, DirectWrite is one of the new additions to the DirectX family of APIs in Windows 7 and enables better readability, adds support for a large variety of languages and scripts, and in conjunction with Direct2D provides superior rendering performance for Windows applications.

You’ll notice that with the final release of Paint.NET 3.5 – it brings some new UI changes to the application. This “refreshed” UI takes advantage of Aero in Windows 7 (and in Windows Vista). I happen to be a huge fan of the updated UI.

If you’re looking for a free and powerful application for editing graphics, give Paint.NET 3.5 a try! For a complete list of changes in Paint.NET 3.5 (since 3.36) – see Rick’s blog post.

Comments

Quikboy

Posted on: November 07, 2009 at 7:54PM
Curious, is Paint.NET free software coming out of Microsoft? Just seeing it on this blog, and seeing Paint and .NET makes me think it's Microsoft affiliated...
anonymuos

Posted on: November 08, 2009 at 1:20AM
Cool but why does WordPad not use DirectWrite?
yert

Posted on: November 08, 2009 at 2:07AM
Paint.NET is made by an employee of Microsoft, but in his free time. Thus, while it is a key example of .NET and other Microsoft technologies being used well in what is a very powerful alternative to costly software like Photoshop, it is not a Microsoft product, although I think Microsoft should "sponsor" it officially at very least, with some official backing in the form of man hours at least, in the vein of Google's 20% projects.
Brandon LeBlanc

Posted on: November 08, 2009 at 2:35AM
Hi Quikboy, you can read about Paint.NET here at their website http://www.getpaint.net/. It is not a Microsoft product - its a great example of the power of the.NET Framework and what can be done to make a pretty slick Windows application, which is why I'm highlighting it here.
newscientist2000

Posted on: November 09, 2009 at 7:02PM
Great, I just updated my old version. Bonus points to the writers for giving me the option of an in place upgrade. Aero looks nice on this version, its nice to be able to see the image below the windows, great piece of software. Hopefully this software will keep getting better, it would be nice to add a quality setting to the jpeg save setting for example.

However you cant beat free, and the application launches fast which is great.

Another great freebie I've tried recently is the Image Resizer Powertoy Clone, makes my Windows 7 experience complete:

imageresizer.codeplex.com

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