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Paint.NET

Paint.NET 3.05

  -  4.71 MB  -  Freeware
  • Latest Version

    Paint.NET 5.1.2

  • Operating System

    Windows XP / XP64 / Vista / Vista64

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    dotPDN LLC / External Link

  • Filename

    PaintDotNetSetup.exe

  • MD5 Checksum

    75bf86a510c9e4815ca73031e5205421

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of Paint.NET 3.05.


For those interested in downloading the most recent release of Paint.NET or reading our review, simply click here.


All old versions distributed on our website are completely virus-free and available for download at no cost.


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What's new in this version:

Changes since last full release.
This is a minor update that adds a new effect, improves certain parts of the user interface, and fixes a few minor bugs.

- New: Pencil Sketch effect
- New: In Windows Vista, the new-style Save/Open dialogs are used. Among other things, this enables Search functionality.
- Changed: The View->Units, Image->Flip, Image->Rotate, and Layers->Flip submenus have been "flattened" (their commands were moved out into the View, Image, Image, and Layers menus respectively)
- Improved: Download size reduced by about 300 KB by using PNGOUT
- Improved: Some uses of confusing "MessageBox" style dialogs have been changed to a much friendlier "TaskDialog" style interface
- Improved: When changing the language, Paint.NET can now restart itself automatically
- Improved: Better performance for Move Selected Pixels tool for quad-core systems. This issue is documented and explained here, http://blogs.msdn.com/rickbrew/archive/2007/03/01/paint-net-many-core-performance-scaling-analyzed.aspx
- Removed: The "Clear History" button has been removed because it was not very useful
- Fixed: Sometimes the Colors window would get "lost" between sessions of Paint.NET
- Fixed: Stack-overflow crash when using certain effects, such as Gaussian Blur, on very large images with certain settings (such as a 200 pixel radius)
- Fixed: When cancelling the multi-image Unsaved Changes dialog, the input focus was sometimes confused
- Changed: Renamed PdnLib.dll to PaintDotNet.Core.dll
- Fixed: Very rare race condition in background thumbnail renderer