Koen

Thanks for pointing out the spacing. Re. finding out - yes, I subscribe to that in spirit but to be honest I'm very happy with 4.3.12 and am already cramming more in my days than I comfortably can so I'm flagging this up in case it might help others but am not really looking to spend a lot of time switching between versions etc. Sadly there's only so much you can do in a day, and also - there's the very real possibility that what I'm encountering is the result of a rather specific combination of settings/software/hardware and I wouldn't suggest people spend a lot of time looking into issues reported just by a single individual who can hardly be described as a computer expert!

Not sure what you mean by spacing. Brush size is mostly 70, hardness mostly 0, to avoid sharp edges (I'm painting out dust from scanned slides). Anyway, after having processed a batch of pictures in Paint.net 5.0 yesterday I went back to 4.3.12 today and all is well, so I'm just sticking to what I know to perform absolutely fine!

Seems good to give some feedback on this. I sadly have rolled back to the previous version. Two reasons: 1) More demanding, causing frequent audio hickups on the video file I was playing in the background (relatively cheap PC, c. €500, most components no more than a couple of months old) 2) Distinct impression that the clone tool, which I'm using extensively, now in some cases leaves faint traces of what I'm trying to paint out. Goes away when I go over the spot twice, but obviously slows down the work. First time in years I've chosen not to go with a new version - sorry guys. Back to 4.3.12 it is...

Interesting, thanks. Going to take a look!

Hi there. I have four large pictures, roughly A3 size, that I'm trying to turn into a nice scan... but I only have an A4 scanner. As expected, efforts to join the separate scans inevitably causes trouble when trying to line up the quarters that should make a whole. Is there perhaps some kind of plugin or setting that might be helpful in this regard, or would I be better off just spending some money to get these pictures scanned professionally? To make matters more complicated, these pictures, which must be at least a hundred years old and I'm reluctant to cause damage to, have edges that are not 100% straight... so it's not really feasible to scan all quarters under the exact same angle.