Rick Brewster Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 (cross-posted from my blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/rickbrew/default.aspx) Well, Paint.NET v3.0 seems like it may be ready sooner than I thought for a public alpha release. Which is great! I think it's important to get it out there soon to get all the feedback and bug reports from everyone so that we can push out a super high quality final release in February. There are some things you will need to know about the alpha though, some of which may or may not be important to you: * It's an alpha. This may seem obvious, but I'm reiterating it anyway ... the darn thing isn't finished yet Please be forgiving if there are typos or whatever. * There is no German translation. I will hopefully have some more, better news on this front in the coming months, but for now Paint.NET v3.0 is English-only. * The gradient tool isn't in there yet. Don't worry, it's coming! * There are other changes still coming to the toolbar. If it feels a little empty at times, that's why. * Itanium is no longer supported. I doubt anyone will notice, honestly, but everyone else will see the download size drop by about 100 KB. * Windows 2000 is no longer supported. The minimum OS that Paint.NET v3.0 will install on is Windows XP SP2. So, keep your Paint.NET updater enabled and your RSS aggregator tuned to this blog. Quote 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...
Hellfire010 Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 YAY I can't wait! xD One question... Whats Itanium? An OS? Lol, never heard of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Picc84 Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 you know what, i was about to ask the SAME exact question... also... What needs to be done before public alpha release? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 13, 2006 Author Share Posted October 13, 2006 Itanium is a 64-bit Intel server processor that we supported in v2.6 through v2.72 just because it was quick to add support for it But nobody installs Paint.NET on Itaniums, as evidenced by such statistics as not having a single ping to the Itanium update manifest over the last 6 months (but something like 200,000 per month for 32-bit Windows XP). http://www.intel.com/itanium/ Trust me, you will never own one of these. Nor would you have a reason to. Edit: I'm not trying to say they're bad chips. Just that they're for a totally different computing market: servers. High-end, specialized servers. Quote 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...
Rick Brewster Posted October 13, 2006 Author Share Posted October 13, 2006 you know what, i was about to ask the SAME exact question... also... What needs to be done before public alpha release? What needs to be done? What do you mean? By whom? Me? Or you? Quote 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...
Picc84 Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Mostly by you, because most things have to be done by you... your the increadably smart man hear... And also by us... it may sound like a very stupid question, but You know the signifigence(sp?) of having people test certain things and such... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 13, 2006 Author Share Posted October 13, 2006 I've pretty much finished all the work I needed to do before any full public release of v3.0. This included major feature design, implementation, refinement and stabilization, and changes to the update infrastructure and schema. The remaining work includes implementing and stabilizing the rest of the features. As for you and everyone else ... install it and submit all the feedback and bug reports you can think of. (once it's available that is) Quote 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...
Picc84 Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Ic, sounds like its pretty much ready, just as you've said before, I've reported every bug i've had so far, with aint much... because i'am not very Pushy when it comes to these things, but i Try... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gekko Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Sweet. Can't wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyched Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 When will it be availabe in German? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzKill Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Busy, busy, busy.... Hair falling out yet? Awesome work Rick & Dev Team! ...and may you all have a twisted Friday the 13th! Quote - DO NOT contact me asking for the .pdn of my avatar or the PDN logo. Thank you. Have a nice day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illnab1024 Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Psyched: Firstly, when the final release is out, and then, only when somebody translates it to German. Quote ~~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 13, 2006 Author Share Posted October 13, 2006 Illnab1024, please don't speak for me on stuff like this. Psyched, Like I said, I should have more information on this later. For now, it's English only. Quote 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...
Illnab1024 Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 I meant that that would be how it was if you were not to give German support...sorry for the confusion. Quote ~~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S0S Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Excellent, I look forward to v3.0. About the gradient tool, will it be "editable" as far as greater control over the gradient (i.e. Artweaver's)? That's a little bit of a letdown that not more 64-bit owners took advantage of Paint.NET's 64-bit image capabilities, I remember when I mentioned Paint.NET to someone who did have a 64-bit machine how thankful he was that someone revamped the old MS Paint program... The MDI and the color palette look like welcome additions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 13, 2006 Author Share Posted October 13, 2006 64-bit support is fine, like for x64 Windows. Heck I use it all the time. It's the Itanium that nobody runs Paint.NET on, so why even bother? Quote 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...
A_Pickle Posted October 14, 2006 Share Posted October 14, 2006 Go Rick. Good 120 dpi support is few and far between, annoyingly. Oh, and I'll take one for the team... and George... is there an airbrush tool yet? Heh, just kidding. Quote Photobucket - Blog Newest Film: Beowulf (Feel free to PM me comments, criticisms) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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