PAINT.NET 4.2 was released. Paint.NET is an image and photo manipulation software, which was developed by students at Washington State University and maintenance of the project by providing guidance Microsoft Corporation, located in an early free alternative to MS Paint software is now gradually developed into a powerful and easy to use image and photo processing software, supports layers, unlimited history, special effects, and many useful tools, and open source, the interface looks a bit like Photoshop. The software development language is C #.
The new version is a major update version mainly adds support for HEIC file format, greatly enhancing the image performance, as well as upgrading and modernization of many existing file type (JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF and TIFF) function. Many other issues have been resolved or repaired.
Note that HEIC file format support requires two things: 1) You must use an updated version of Windows or 10 v1809, and 2) must be installed HEVC Video Extensions from Microsoft Store, costs $ 1.
Most of the other built-in file types such as BMP, GIF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, have been upgraded interior, from the use of GDI + to built on WIC (Windows Imaging Component). BMP can now save 32-bit image with Alpha transparency, JPEG, and PNG can now load and save more images, but TIFF now supports saving 24 and 8-bit color depth.
In terms of performance, the new version of the reconstruction of the internal data structure of the rendering engine for tracking the failure region. It contains information about which parts of the image need to render and re-drawn on the screen of information, because the image has changed or because scrolling and zooming. In previous versions, you can not use very large image. Zooming in and out can cause a lot of slow performance, delay, or even a few seconds to suspend the application or longer (60,000 pixels may hang 30-60 seconds or more). Now in the new version, which should be completely smooth.
For details, see the announcement .