Paint.NET v3.30 Beta 2

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.

Changelog:

This release adds a new "Fragment Blur" effect, as well as the ability to save PNG images at 8- and 24-bit color depths. An official Italian translation has also been added.

• Changed: Most effects and adjustments, including plugins that use IndirectUI, have been visually refreshed. The new look is cleaner and more compact.
• Fixed: Thumbnails for PDN images now include transparency, which improves their appearance in Windows Vista.
• New: For developers, added a Color Wheel control to IndirectUI for use in effect plugins.
• New: For developers, added ability to customize certain properties of the effect configuration dialog via IndirectUI.

Beta 1 Released: February 29th, 2008

• New: Ability to save PNG's at 8- and 24-bit color depths.
• New: Ability to save BMP's at 8-bit color depth.
• New: "Auto-detect" bit-depth option for PNG, BMP, and TGA file types. It will analyze the image and determine the lowest bit-depth that can still save the image without quality loss.
• New: "Fragment" blur effect, by Ed Harvey
• New: The "Polar Inversion" distortion effect has been enhanced to allow changing the rendering offset, and the behavior for "edge" pixels (clamp, reflect, or wrap).
• New: For developers, IndirectUI can now be used to write configuration UI for file types.
• New: For developers, IndirectUI has a new radio button control type for enumerations, and some new property constraint rules.
• New: Italian translation.
• Fixed: In some cases, an exponential property slider would get "stuck" at some values when using up/down keyboard keys. This mostly affects some effect plugins.
• Fixed: When using keyboard navigation, sometimes the File menu would scroll its items out of view.
• Fixed: Some crashes that were tracked down to out-of-bounds coordinate values in certain effects.
• Fixed: The installer would fail if Paint.NET had never been installed before, and was being installed to any non-default directory. This bug only affected version 3.22.
  

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