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. This update is mostly a hotfix that fixes installation on windows server systems Paint.net uses your hard drive to store temporary files related to undo/redo history
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Because of this, actual disk space requirements will depend on the actions you perform on an image, and on the size of the image.
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23 august 2025 overview/features paint.net 5 is the best free image and photo editing application for windows based pcs since paint.net 4 The application has been extensively rebuilt to improve functionality and ease of use while packing numerous new features into the now familiar user interface (ui) Paint.net 5 works exclusively on. This fixes the rare crash i mentioned in the previous build (5.1 beta build 9000)
Soon i'll be able to start looking into a host of smaller issues now that the big rendering, presentation, and performance issues are out of the way (knock on wood!) Download and install this build is available vi. Paint.net allows for easy expansion of features and file types through a plugin system Examples of plugins include support for new type of file formats, drop shadows, coloring tools and photographic adjustments
There is even a plugin called codelab which is a plugin designed to create new plugins!
Content aware filling replaces the contents of the selection with pixels that are the closest match in the areas outside the selection This allows parts of an image to be removed and blended with the background This plugin is based on the gimp resynthesizer plugin This is a maintenance release that adds a romanian translation, fixes some important bugs, and updates the bundled filetype plugins
Get the update there are two releases of paint.net Microsoft store release (recommended) you can purchase it here This helps fund development and is an alternativ. A dds filetype plugin that allows paint.net to open and save the the some of formats introduced in directx 10 and later
This plugin is bundled with paint.net 4.2.2 and later
If you need the features from a newer version you can still install the plugin For instructions on installing 8bf filters see installing 8bf filters This plugin is compatible with paint.net 5.1+
