Rick Brewster Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 Thanks to everyone who helped out with the extensive alpha and beta releases with all the bug reports, crash log submissions, and feedback. It has all been a huge help in creating the best Paint.NET release ever. As usual there are two ways to get it: 1. Preferred: Use the built-in updater from within Paint.NET. If you are using version 3.36, go to the Help menu and then Check for Updates. For v3.5 alpha/beta, go to the Utilities menu instead of the Help menu. Or just wait for the update dialog to come up automatically within the next week or so.2. Download directly from the website, http://www.getpaint.net/ . There is no need to uninstall the old version; that will be taken care of automatically. Changes since version 3.36: * New: Refreshed user interface with new icons and visual styling. On Windows 7 and Vista, it is enhanced for Aero and "glass".* New effect: Blurs -> Surface Blur, by Ed Harvey* New effect: Distort -> Dents, by Ed Harvey* New effect: Distort -> Crystalize, by Ed Harvey* New: Russian translation.* Performance and memory usage have been extensively optimized throughout the entire program.* .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is now required, which has many built-in performance improvements.* Disk space usage has been reduced by about 12MB by using NTFS compression on installation files related to staging (.MSI) and diagnostics (.PDB).* Compression for .PDN images has been improved.* Effect dialog responsiveness has been improved.* Images open much faster, especially on single CPU systems.* Startup performance on most systems will be better by about 20%.* Memory usage has been reduced when more than one image is open.* Rendering quality has been greatly improved when zoomed in.* The selection outline is no longer animated. Instead of "dancing ants", a context-sensitive "XOR" stipple pattern is drawn. This has allowed for improved performance and lowered CPU consumption (and longer battery life).* The font manager for the Text tool has been completely rewritten, which fixes many problems seen with crashes and missing fonts.* On Windows XP, the Text tool has improved reliability and font selection (it uses GDI instead of GDI+).* On Windows 7, the Text tool will use DirectWrite (instead of GDI) which gives better performance and greatly improved quality. On Windows Vista, you may install DirectX 11 to enable this feature; otherwise GDI will be used.* The toolbar font list has improved usability, rendering quality, and significantly improved performance.* The toolbar font list no longer requires an application restart to recognize newly installed fonts.* When many fonts are installed, both memory usage and startup performance have been greatly improved.* It is now drastically easier to move a very small selection.* All installation prerequisites are now installed automatically, such as .NET and Windows Installer.* Updates are now downloaded in the background, and installed after you exit the application. In previous versions, this was a foreground task and you could not use Paint.NET while the update was downloaded.* Added a "Utilities" menu. Updates, Languages, and Plugin Errors have been moved there.* Added a "Manage Fonts" command to the Utilities menu. This will launch the built-in Windows font control panel.* Clicking the middle mouse button on an image thumbnail will now close the image.* Improved the Unfocus effect.* The DirectDraw Surface (.DDS) file type now allows you to select the resampling algorithm for auto-generated mip-maps.* A processor that supports SSE is now required (almost all CPUs purchased this decade satisfy this).* Fixed an issue with Gaussian Blur and its treatment of alpha values.* Fixed a crash with the "Units" selector in the toolbar.* Fixed a crash due to an overflow that prevented very large images from working (64-bit only).* Fixed many other miscellaneous glitches and crashes.* The Korean translation has been removed. Sadly, we were unable to find the resources to complete this. Enjoy! The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sozo Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 Enjoy I will! Thanks for all your hard work Rick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 Wikipedia article has been updated. This looks like one heck of a release. Thanks, Rick. The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharp Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 Sweet. One thing, when I installed it, PDN created three desktop shortcuts, none of which can be deleted. It says "Cannot delete file: cannot read from the source file or disk." :? [Glass Ball Tutorial] [My Gallery] [starscape Tutorial] [My Sig Tutorial] [My dA] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 Did you try a reboot? The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted November 7, 2009 Author Share Posted November 7, 2009 Yeah that's a known issue, and it's transient. A reboot or logoff/login fixes it. The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goonfella Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 Just installed 3.5 . Well done Rick and thanks for all the hard work. It was worth the wait. It seems to have removed Curve+ and Evanolds Octagonal/Quad reshape matte plug ins. Both of these are in the effects folder so why don`t they show up in the program? I`ll try reinstalling these later and see if that helps. Please feel free to visit my Gallery on PDNFans And my Alternatives to PDN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boude Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 @goonfella: I believe they're blocked, because they are known to cause errors. Pyrochild has released beta versions of his plug-ins in the PDN 3.5 preview part of this forum. History repeats itself, because nobody was paying attention the first time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 Pyrochild has released beta versions of his plug-ins in the PDN 3.5 preview part of this forum. No, those are for the Beta version of Paint.NET 3.5. Go download the releases. ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skylamer Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 gratz and keep Going Hello i am lamer, skylamer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goonfella Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 Pyrochild has released beta versions of his plug-ins in the PDN 3.5 preview part of this forum. No, those are for the Beta version of Paint.NET 3.5. Go download the releases. Thanks Pyrochild - will do that. :wink: Please feel free to visit my Gallery on PDNFans And my Alternatives to PDN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkShock Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 Great job Rick! Thanks! :wink: ---- Gallery | Sig Tutorial | deviantART | Sig Videos | PhotoBucket ----D E S T I N Y Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickardson Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 Things I love about the new 3.5: Multi-line text I believe there was not a pan tool in the previous vesion? I like that. New Chrome look - Execptions below Add color to palette Flip Vertical/Horizontal Things I do Not like about 3.5 After getting used to the button arangement, the new style (Mainly of buttons) Can get rather confusing. Oh my, is that all? Overall: I love it! Caution! Above post may contain badly made pictures, or misspelled text! Caution! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 Thank you Rick! Amazing update as per usual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFC4EVER Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 Awesome stuff, Rick. Thanks a million! 8) ☆★☆★Merry Christmas★☆★☆ .::.My Gallery.::.Make Gold Text!.::. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frontcannon Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 Wow, I'm still baffled at how fast Pdn loads, a mere second! :shock: Night Vision Text Effect Tutorial Gallery reddit.com/r/futurebeats | My Mixcloud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zwicky Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 ^ I wish I had your computer then Thanks a lot Rick, 3.5 is awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frontcannon Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 The interface is nearly immediately there, but it's another 1 second until I can actually do something Night Vision Text Effect Tutorial Gallery reddit.com/r/futurebeats | My Mixcloud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance McKnight Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 Well done, Rick. Officially retired from this forum. Have a nice day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cazaron Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 well done rick indeed. though i do have XP, so i dont notice all the prettiness put in to 3.5, i do notice all the speed increases and the other fixes, and i nod in agreement with everyone who has praised you thus far with 3.5. brilliant, rick, brilliant. can't help asking... what's gonna be in 4.0? how are you going to beat 3.5?! You should get the Win7 theme for XP. Then get the rest of Win7. Then uninstall XP. Then it'll really look nice. ~ David Atwell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFader Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 lol. it would have been nice if they had a description when you hover over the effects... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted November 7, 2009 Author Share Posted November 7, 2009 The interface is nearly immediately there, but it's another 1 second until I can actually do something If you have a lot of plugins, they will affect post-startup performance. There hasn't been much time spent optimizing that yet, but good things are planned. The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HannahRose Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 What happened to "Color Mixer"? Every time I click on it, a warning window comes up and explains that the plugin has encountered an error. It recomends that I restart paint.NET but nothing happens when it do, it continues to malfunction. Anything I can do? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bEPIK Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 Thanks Rick. Are you going to put all of the PdN icons in the 'Resources\en-US' folder? Water, Wood and Hair Tutorial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
par7133 Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 unfortunately, "There was an unspecified error while opening the file." also trying to open cr2 through RAWFile plugin.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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