Archive for August, 2008
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
I just received an e-mail from BetaNews this morning,
Rick,
Someone just submitted an 4.0 Alpha of Paint.NET. Do you want us to post this release? We would of course not post it over top of v3.36, but we would post it as a seperate release.
Let ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
This is mostly a servicing release to make some small improvements and to fix a few important bugs.
You can get it via the built-in updater by going to Help -> Check for Updates, or by going to the website: http://www.getpaint.net/
Enjoy!
List of changes:
Improved: Effect rendering should be a ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
In my previous post I detailed the epic adventure of a normal user installing Paint.NET v3.xx on a "fresh" XP SP2 computer. I also said that I've made it a lot easier in Paint.NET v4. Let's check it out:
Again, from the top, the user has excitedly downloaded the Paint.NET installer, ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Note #1: This blog post is fairly long because it is image intensive. The point is to illustrate what a massive task this is :) Don't worry though, I ran the images through PNGOUT.
Note #2: If you haven't already done so, I highly recommend that you go and install .NET ...
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Like I said before, the first concrete work I'm doing for Paint.NET v4 is focused on the installer and updater. A lot of people have told me that they use Paint.NET infrequently, or that when they start it up they "just want to get something done really quickly." Updates really ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
In my last post about Paint.NET v4, I said that I was going to be writing it "from scratch" -- that it would be a rewrite from the ground up, in other words. I've since changed my mind.
You see, I got a few months into this rewrite project. I wrote ...
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