It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins. 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. Updated the bundled DDSFileTypePlus plugin to v1.11.9.Paint.NET is a free image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows.

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.Offline Installers and Portable ZIPs are available over on GitHub.If you already have it installed, you should be offered the update automatically within the next few days, but you can also get it immediately by going to ⚙ Settings -> Updates -> Check Now.

This is the recommended download if you don't have Paint.NET installed.

Download the installer from the website.

To get the update immediately (once it's certified), you can follow the instructions listed here. If you already have it installed, the update should happen automatically once Microsoft certifies the update, usually within the next day or so. This helps fund development and is an alternative or supplement to sending in a donation. This is a small update with some quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes.

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