

It sits comfortably between the uber-powerful (and complex) Photoshop on the one hand and Windows’ anaemic Photos tool on the other. Updated the bundled DDSFileTypePlus plugin to v1.11.9.Paint.NET has long been a staple of the free image-editing market.Removed the /setenv command-line parameter.Fixed an infinite loop when using BoltBait's Apply Mask twice, on two separate images with a different number of layers.Fixed some rare rendering artifacts for GPU plugins when using the CPU for rendering.Fixed an issue where the selection highlight would not appear in some cases.Fixed the Edit -> Copy and Copy Merged menu items from being incorrectly enabled when no image is open.The help text for the Magic Wand and Paint Bucket tools also notes that holding Shift will use Global mode. Fixed: Shortcut keys are now listed for the tooltips in the Layers and History windows and for the selection combine modes in the toolbar.Changed the icon for Contiguous mode (Magic Wand and Paint Bucket tools) to have better contrast with the icon for Global mode.Improved: The Move Selection Tool will not be forced to commit its state when the image is being saved, thus preserving history entries.Improved: The selection highlight is now hidden when the Layer Properties dialog is open.New: Ctrl+Shift+Page Up/Down can now be used to switch between tabs.You can also convert an image to black and white, or sepia-toned. Also included is our unique 3D Rotate/Zoom effect that makes it very easy to add perspective and tilting.Īdjustments are also included which help you tweak an image's brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, curves, and levels. Everything from blurring, sharpening, red-eye removal, distortion, noise, and embossing are included. Many special effects are included for enhancing and perfecting your images. You may think of them as a stack of transparency slides that, when viewed together at the same time, form one image. Usually only found on expensive or complicated professional software, layers form the basis for a rich image composition experience.

This makes navigation very simple and fast. The tabs display a live thumbnail of the image instead of a text description. In order to handle multiple images easily, Paint.NET uses a tabbed document interface. Every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance. Paint.NET is an image and photo manipulation application.
