Archive for July, 2008

Paint.NET 3.35 … “ugly” canvas background?

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

In the latest update, I changed the canvas background in Paint.NET so that it was a solid color instead of a grey gradient. The rationale for this change was based on a comment made by forum member "mkidd": "The top-to-bottom grayscale gradient on the desktop area of Paint ...

Paint.NET v3.35 final release now available!

Monday, July 7th, 2008

This version has a new Posterize adjustment, Intersect selection mode, and dramatically faster selection editing performance (add, subtract, intersect). Oh, and the usual crop of miscellaneous bug fixes, of course! You can get this update by using the built-in updater (Help menu -> "Check for Updates"), or by downloading it from ...

C# Extension Methods … Portability Aid?

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

In my first post about Paint.NET v4, I mentioned that I was learning a lot about C# 3.0 and .NET 3.5. One of the things I'm absolutely falling head-over-heels for is extension methods. One use of these is to add utility functionality on to existing classes that you don't own ...

Yet Another Poorly Done Business Proposal

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

I can't make these things up, folks. I honestly feel that if someone really wants to do business with you, they'll at least do more than 3 seconds of research and get your product's name correct. It should be easy to figure out that the product hosted at http://www.getpaint.net/ is ...

The very first Paint.NET v4.0 screenshot!

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

It's really not as exciting as it sounds unfortunately :) I've been quiet on the subject for some time, though, and wanted to put out some information. For a long time I debated whether I should fully refactor Paint.NET, or do it from scratch. I finally decided on the latter, and ...