This update introduces overscroll, which is the ability to scroll the canvas past the bounds of the image. This has been a highly requested feature for several years now, and it’s finally here 🙂

Also included is a big serving of miscellaneous bug fixes and small improvements.

As usual, you can download the update directly from the website, or you can use the built-in updater via Settings –> Updates –> Check Now.

Change log:

• New: The canvas may now be scrolled past the edge of the image
• New: When holding the spacebar, you may scroll using the keyboard arrow keys (in addition to click-and-drag panning). Holding Ctrl will scroll at 10x the rate.
• New: You can now hold Ctrl+Shift while clicking on the floating window icons in order to reset their location and docking. Ctrl+Shift along with the appropriate hotkey (F5, F6, F7, F8) also does the trick.
• Improved: The rate of auto-scrolling, which triggers when the mouse is at the canvas edge and a button is being held down, has been improved and is based on time instead of frames
• Improved: Fixed Size selection drawing now defaults to 400×300 pixels instead of 4×3 inches
• Improved: Tooltips for Custom Shapes now include their file system location
• Improved: Edit->Invert Selection should perform much faster when used with unmodified selections from the Magic Wand tool
• Improved: When running within VMWare, "Hardware accelerated rendering" is disabled by default (Microsoft’s WARP is faster than VMWare’s D3D emulation)
• Fixed: Erratic brush/pencil drawing when running within VMWare (this is caused by a bug in Win32’s GetMouseMovePointEx API, and is not actually limited to VMWare)
• Fixed: Color Picker tool could crash if used at the bottom of the image, as reported at http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/109248-paintnet-crashes-when-color-picker-off-screen-update/
• Fixed: There was a glitch in the Gradient tool’s rendering when dx was equal to dy, as reported at http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/107380-gradient-bugs-in-direction-and-length/
• Fixed: The Layers window would sometimes auto-scroll the active layer to the bottom when performing certain operations, as reported at http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/32527-layers-auto-scrolling-when-adding-or-duplicating/
• Fixed some mouse cursor glitches when using panning using the spacebar
• Fixed many glitches and a few crashes in the image size dialogs (File->New, Image->Resize, Image->Canvas Size)
• Fixed a problem with inconsinstently skipped input when using the arrow keys to move tool handles, as reported at http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/108932-selected-area-moving-with-direction-keys-bug/
• Fixed: Custom Shapes did not always have the correct bounding box, and would have weird behavior as a result
• Fixed: Line/Curve handles were unusable for up to 500ms after adjusting properties in the toolbar
• Fixed some crashes and soft hangs in the Save Configuration dialog
• Fixed a blemish at the top of the main window when Windows is set to 200% DPI
• Fixed: There were some precision bugs with IndirectUI sliders that would cause them to get "stuck" at certain values (mostly affects effect plugins)
• Improved: IndirectUI’s Angle Chooser control now supports the DecimalPlaces property (for plugins)
• Improved: IndirectUI’s Slider controls now support all-negative ranges (e.g. [-200, -20])

Enjoy!