Paint.NET 3.5.1 released, download it here

With the all the fun and excitement surrounding Microsoft’s PDC event and then Google Chrome OS, we didn’t get the time to share this important news with you. Not any more. Guess what, the free photo and image editing application called Paint.NET just got updated. Paint.NET 3.5.1 has been released and is now available for download. The first update for Paint.NET 3.5 brings small bug fixes and more Windows 7 stuff.

The most notable feature Paint.NET brings, is the addition of a taskbar progress reporting option that will show progress for long running operations thus improving user experience.

Paint.NET 3.5.1 features

The changes and fixes Paint.NET 3.5.1 brings, since the launch of 3.5 include:

• New: For Windows 7, added taskbar progress reporting for long running operations (effects, adjustments, Image->Resize, save, install)
• Made some corrections to the French translation.
• Running setup with /auto will no longer launch Paint.NET when it’s done.
• Fixed an issue where Paste into New Image would refuse an image on the clipboard, even if regular Paste would take it.
• Fixed a race condition with Edit->Paste and Image->Resize whereby it would take up 100% CPU and take between 1 minute to 1 hour to finish.
• Fixed an issues with Copy/Paste where it would leave an extra line of transparent pixels on the left, top, right, and/or bottom edges.
• Fixed lag with the paintbrush tool that was being seen on some systems.
• Fixed some issues with the paintbrush and eraser tool being misaligned when zoomed in.
• Fixed a crash that would happen at (seemingly) random times, such as after drawing with the paintbrush tool, on some systems.
• Fixed a minor and obscure rendering glitch with the Move Selected Pixels tool.
• Fixed an issue with glass over Remote Desktop or Windows 7 Virtual PC.
• Fixed a minor glitch whereby the “Unsaved Changes” confirmation dialog could never finish rendering the image thumbnail if one of the Move tools was active.

How to upgrade/install Paint.NET 3.5.1

There are two ways through which you can get your hand on the latest release of Paint.NET 3.5.1. The two options are listed below:

• Use the built-in updater.
• Download it directly from the website.

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