Globulus

I posted a question about drawing with GDI+ on UseNet, but seeing that Paint .Net also suffers from this problem, I thought I might ask your opinion as well: http://tinyurl.com/cesc5 Has this problem gone unnoticed? Is Paint .Net going to have better drawing functions in the future? I have experimented a bit with various combinations of PixelOffsetMode and SmoothingMode, but none produce the near-perfect results I can get with Photoshop. I am aware that Paint .Net is not a precision tool like an icon designer (or similar), but ... the GDI+ results are ugly I wrote my own class for creating circular brushes with/without antialiasing and hardness setting. Perfect results at all sizes/settings due to the fact that I do not make use of optimized, quality-compromising algorithms. By caching recently created/frequently used brushes, this works very well, but I wouldn't want to use it as a general tool for drawing circles, so I'm still searching ... Regards, Joergen Bech

Sorry about my impatience, but ... I am interested in studying the layer composition engine of Paint .Net. I read in the roadmap that the 2.6 engine is much faster and includes 7 new layer blend modes. Is it significantly different (architecturally) from the one in 2.5, i.e. will I be wasting my time studying the existing version rather than waiting a couple of weeks for the source for 2.6? (Yes, I know there are lessons to be learned from any source snippet :wink: ) Regards, Joergen Bech