Paint.NET 3.30 Beta 1

[Marik]

Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run XP, Server 2003 or Vista. It started development at Washington State University as an undergraduate senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. It is meant to be a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with all Windows operating systems.

Paint.NET has many of the powerful features that expensive commercial applications have, including the ability to use layers. We welcome any suggestions, and provide the source code for final releases under the MIT License.

Paint.Net requires the .NET Framework 2 in order to run.

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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.

Changes in 3.30 Beta 1:

• 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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