hayc59
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David R.I.P.
3 edits | [Update] Paint.NET v3.50 Released
November 7th, 2008
Whats New:
• New effect: Blurs -> Surface Blur, by Ed Harvey
• New effect: Distort -> Dents, by Ed Harvey
• New effect: Distort -> Crystalize, by Ed Harvey
• New: Russian translation.
• Performance and memory usage have been extensively optimized throughout the entire program.
• .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is now required, which has many built-in performance improvements.
• Disk space usage has been reduced by about 12MB by using NTFS compression on installation files related to staging (.MSI) and diagnostics (.PDB).
• Compression for .PDN images has been improved.
• Effect dialog responsiveness has been improved.
• Images open much faster, especially on single CPU systems.
• Startup performance on most systems will be better by about 20%.
• Memory usage has been reduced when more than one image is open.
• Rendering quality has been greatly improved when zoomed in.
• The selection outline is no longer animated. Instead of "dancing ants", a context-sensitive "XOR" stipple pattern is drawn. This has allowed for improved performance and lowered CPU consumption (and longer battery life).
• The font manager for the Text tool has been completely rewritten, which fixes many problems seen with crashes and missing fonts.
• On Windows XP, the Text tool has improved reliability and font selection (it uses GDI instead of GDI+).
• On Windows 7, the Text tool will use DirectWrite (instead of GDI) which gives better performance and greatly improved quality. On Windows Vista, you may install DirectX 11 to enable this feature; otherwise GDI will be used.
• The toolbar font list has improved usability, rendering quality, and significantly improved performance.
• The toolbar font list no longer requires an application restart to recognize newly installed fonts.
• When many fonts are installed, both memory usage and startup performance have been greatly improved.
• It is now drastically easier to move a very small selection.
• All installation prerequisites are now installed automatically, such as .NET and Windows Installer.
• Updates are now downloaded in the background, and installed after you exit the application. In previous versions, this was a foreground task and you could not use Paint.NET while the update was downloaded.
• Added a "Utilities" menu. Updates, Languages, and Plugin Errors have been moved there.
• Added a "Manage Fonts" command to the Utilities menu. This will launch the built-in Windows font control panel.
• Clicking the middle mouse button on an image thumbnail will now close the image.
• Improved the Unfocus effect.
• The DirectDraw Surface (.DDS) file type now allows you to select the resampling algorithm for auto-generated mip-maps.
• A processor that supports SSE is now required (almost all CPUs purchased this decade satisfy this).
• Fixed an issue with Gaussian Blur and its treatment of alpha values.
• Fixed a crash with the "Units" selector in the toolbar.
• Fixed a crash due to an overflow that prevented very large images from working (64-bit only).
• Fixed many other miscellaneous glitches and crashes.
• The Korean translation has been removed. Sadly, we were unable to find the resources to complete this.
Preferred: Use the built-in updater from within Paint.NET. If you are using version v3.36, simply go to the Help menu and click on “Check for Updates.” For v3.5 alpha/beta, go to the Utilities menu instead of the Help menu. Or, just wait for the update prompt to come up automatically within the next week or so.
Download directly from the website: http://www.getpaint.net/ . There is no need to uninstall the old version; that will be taken care of automatically.
 Download: Paint.NET v3.50 |
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Darek
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Chicago, IL | Thanks Gordon.
Updated.
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hayc59
VoodooChild
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David R.I.P.
| said by Darek  :Thanks Gordon. Updated. Your welcome my friend!! |
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gugarci
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join:2004-02-25
Bergen Co | reply to hayc59
Just updated Paint. This is a good program but it needs to have un-sharpmask tool. |
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Dustyn
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join:2003-02-26
Ontario, CAN
1 edit |  reply to hayc59
YaY! It's finally here! 
The year is also 2009.  |
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jabarnut
Light Years Away
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Galaxy M31
2 edits | reply to hayc59
Thanks "Hay"..a little late to this thread, but all set here. (Well, except for my oldest computer).
Interesting to note that one the entries you posted under "Whats New" states:
said by Paint.net :
• A processor that supports SSE is now required (almost all CPUs purchased this decade satisfy this).
LOL! Well, I guess "almost" is the key here.
My oldest Computer (of four), is an "ancient" AMD Duron 1200 (900Mhz), and apparently the days are over for Paint.Net updates when it comes to this box.
Sure enough, when I try to install this version, I get the following:
Guess the bottom line is that v3.36 of Paint.net is the last update this machine will ever see.
Wow! This thing is already a "decade" old??? (Man! That means I'm getting really old too!) 
Heheh...Don't care.
I'm keeping this machine anyway. (Sentimental value, not to mention it still runs a lot of other programs amazingly well with XP).
Of course, I do keep up with oil changes, etc, and it's one of the first computers I actually built myself....which makes it a keeper, in my mind, at least.
Anyway (on behalf of my newer machines), thanks again.
(Edit) I can't believe it! I posted with only two edits!
Not bad! (Well, for me). 
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