Rick Brewster Posted July 22, 2014 Share Posted July 22, 2014 This update fixes a few small bugs and improves performance. There are still some performance issues when working with lots of layers, particularly when using Layers –> Import From File, but I plan on fixing those in the near future as well. Optimization work is never complete, and is quite fun and rewarding ! As usual, you can download it directly from the website, or you can use the built-in updater via Settings –> Updates –> Check Now. Changes since 4.0.2: Further improved performance when working with images that have a lot of layers. Fixed some flickering in the Layers form. Fixed the Language selector in the Settings dialog. Fixed 2-finger touchpad and touch screen scrolling. Aero peek thumbnails now include the pixel grid if it’s enabled. Fixed a crash in the thumbnail renderer that sometimes happened when switching between images. Ctrl+W no longer exits the application if zero images are open. Enjoy! 1 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...
splatcat Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Many, many thanks . Loving it! How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaintNetRus Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 (edited) Hello.I found a small problem when working with canvas. So:1. Select tool "Rectangle Select"2. Select an area.3. Remove the selected area (use "Del" or "Ctrl+X")4. Select tool "Rectangle Select"5. Select another area.6. Select tool "Move Selected Pixels" and move the selection. 6.1 Obtain an image of: Image >><<7. Select tool "Color Picker"8. View color in transparent areas.9. In the first area of the color will be - 000000 ("Opacity - Alpha" = 0) In the second area of the color will be - FFFFFF ("Opacity - Alpha" = 0) ___ And yet, for example, I want to create a gradient "from transparent to white": It turns out that "Opacity - Alpha" in the red zone is not "0". There is noise with "Opacity - Alpha" = 1. And in the blue zone "Opacity - Alpha" in the red zone is not "255". There is noise with "Opacity - Alpha" = 254. The resulting image: Image >>>>><<<<< How do I make the gradient (with the option "Antialiasing Enable") to red and blue zone was not noise (with different "Opacity - Alpha")? Edited July 23, 2014 by PaintNetRus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted July 23, 2014 Author Share Posted July 23, 2014 Hmm. Looks like there's a discrepancy between 3.5 and 4.0, whereby Edit -> Erase Selection (Del) (and presumably Edit -> Cut) fills with transparent black whereas in 3.5 it filled with transparent white. I'll file a bug. Neither one is "more mathematically correct", but it's important that things work as you expect for the most part. If you just need these operations to match up, you can work around this for now when using Move Selected Pixels by making sure that your Secondary color is set to black. It will fill the area with the Secondary color with its alpha value set to zero. The gradient "noise" is a result of dithering. I've already filed a bug to see if I can get it to not apply dithering in the areas where it should obviously be a constant color. For now, when this gets in the way, you can disable antialiasing in the toolbar and then dithering won't be used. 1 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...
vvye Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Great, thanks for the update! All I'd really like to see implemented now is the position of the various tool windows (tools, colors, layers, history) being saved across sessions instead of resetting on startup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAND33P Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Great, thanks for the update! All I'd really like to see implemented now is the position of the various tool windows (tools, colors, layers, history) being saved across sessions instead of resetting on startup. Im pretty sure they already remember their last positions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goonfella Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Great new update Rick , thanks. Expanding on what vvye has just said, what I would like to see is the image history saved in the same way that layers are so you don`t lose it if you have to close the program. Usually I try to keep it going and just minimize when I am finished what I am doing and use sleep instead of shutting down the PC. But sometimes - like Windows Update times - the laptop has to restart which means shutting down PDN and losing my history. If that`s not possible automatically then how about a setting to be able to do it manually? Exporting it from PDN say to save in a file . We already have PDN User Files in Documents which is created when you install the program and several plug ins use this already.That way you would not use up too much memory. Just a thought. Please feel free to visit my Gallery on PDNFans And my Alternatives to PDN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvye Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Im pretty sure they already remember their last positions? Not for me they don't. (They have in versions prior to 4.0, though.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Im pretty sure they already remember their last positions? All the versions of 4 have remembered their positions for me . How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goonfella Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Yep, it remembers my positions as well. instead of just closing using the red x try going to File>Exit and see how that works. Please feel free to visit my Gallery on PDNFans And my Alternatives to PDN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted July 28, 2014 Author Share Posted July 28, 2014 It shouldn't matter which method you use. 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...
vvye Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Most interesting; they keep resetting for me no matter what. Could the issue be that I have 3.5.11 installed along with it? Overlapping registry entries or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samurai1993 Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 (edited) Anyone experimenting weird behaviour while saving .jpeg images? Usually I could drop an image of 164x164 to the 5-9 kb range, but know I can't go under 12 kb Screenshot Don't mind me, it was just that particular image, maybe the color pallete? Anyway, great update Edited July 29, 2014 by samurai1993 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ABilly05 Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 Can someone please explain to me how to install this on a 64 bit OS? The application keeps failing with "Error 1603" and all the log says is it can't install on a 64 bit OS. I asked for help last time and all I got was "use the exe not the msi" but I'm NOT USING THE MSI. I desperately need PDN to work right now, so help, please. Any ACTUAL help this time would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 My profuse apologies for not answering exactly the way you'd like, but sentences like Any ACTUAL help this time would be appreciated. are rude and unhelpful. Open a troubleshooting thread like you're supposed to, and get your attitude in order. 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...
ABilly05 Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 My profuse apologies for not answering exactly the way you'd like, but sentences like are rude and unhelpful. Open a troubleshooting thread like you're supposed to, and get your attitude in order. I'd like to think the way you told me to use the EXE like I don't know that was also "rude and unhelpful." And excuse me but I'm new here so I didn't know where to open a thread. And thanks for directing me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted July 30, 2014 Share Posted July 30, 2014 I'm sorry you felt that way. That was not the intent at all. 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...
Kirost Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Good day Rick, that is great to have new version however was surprised to see that freeform shape has been removed while so many other regular shapes added. I'm using it often to remove multiple small objects adjacent and around some shapes. For example around circle or triangle. It was easy way to do that and now do not know how to make it fast. Perhaps only using brush to paint over each line, small object etc. Any problems to keep this tool there? Also, where is left triangle? Thanks and thanks for excellent software! Kirills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvye Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Not meaning to be nagging here, but... can anyone think of a reason the tool window positions keep resetting for me? Could the problem be that I have both 4.0.3 and 3.5.11 installed, and some settings are overriding each other? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cc4FuzzyHuggles Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 (edited) Not meaning to be nagging here, but... can anyone think of a reason the tool window positions keep resetting for me? Could the problem be that I have both 4.0.3 and 3.5.11 installed, and some settings are overriding each other? I don't have the same issue that you do. I have both programs installed, however I try to keep as many programs as I can on an external hard drive. If you haven't yet, try sharing your PC info here on the forums. Open Paint.NET 4.0 Look for the Settings icon in the upper right corner of the program Then Click on the Diagnostics tab And then the "Copy to Clipboard" button. Paste it here in the forms. Edited August 6, 2014 by Cc4FuzzyHuggles *~ Cc4FuzzyHuggles Gallery ~* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvye Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 Alright, here you go: Application paint.net v4.0.3 (Final 4.3.5316.40022) Build Date Dienstag, 22. Juli 2014 Hardwarebeschleunigtes Rendern (GPU) True Animationen True DPI 96,00 (1,00x scale) Sprache de OS Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (6.1.7601.65536) .NET Runtime 4.0.30319.18444 Physical Memory 3.327 MB CPU AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 945 Processor Architecture x86 (32-bit) Process Mode 32-bit Speed ~3008 MHz Cores / Threads 4 Features DEP, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 Dedicated Video RAM 1.007 MB Dedicated System RAM 0 MB Shared System RAM 1.407 MB Vendor ID 0x10DE Device ID 0x0615 Subsystem ID 0x82FB1043 Revision 162 LUID 0x00008985 Flags None Outputs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seerose Posted August 6, 2014 Share Posted August 6, 2014 (edited) Paint.Net 4.0.3 It is so very very cool. Thank you Rick. Edited August 24, 2014 by Seerose Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Gandhi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goonfella Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Unfortunately I have had a problem with window sizes as well. I don`t know if it had anything to do with it but I had just updated Boltbait`s HueSat+ and GridMaker plugins. When I closed PDN last I had it maximized but after I had updated it opened up minimized. I have included an image and the diagnostics - Application paint.net 4.0.3 (Final 4.3.5316.40022)Build Date 22 July 2014 Hardware accelerated rendering (GPU) TrueAnimations TrueDPI 96.00 (1.00x scale)Language en-GB OS Windows 8 (6.2.9200.0).NET Runtime 4.0.30319.18449Physical Memory 7,848 MB CPU Intel® Core i7-4500U CPU @ 1.80GHz Architecture x64 (64-bit) Process Mode 64-bit Speed ~2394 MHz Cores / Threads 4 Features DEP, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4_1, SSE4_2, XSAVE Video Card Intel® HD Graphics Family Dedicated Video RAM 96 MB Dedicated System RAM 0 MB Shared System RAM 1,696 MB Vendor ID 0x8086 Device ID 0x0A16 Subsystem ID 0x079B1025 Revision 9 LUID 0x00007EC8 Flags None Outputs 1 Video Card Microsoft Basic Render Driver Dedicated Video RAM 0 MB Dedicated System RAM 0 MB Shared System RAM 256 MB Vendor ID 0x1414 Device ID 0x008C Subsystem ID 0x00000000 Revision 0 LUID 0x00008050 Flags Software Outputs 0 I know it is quite easy to just maximize PDN again with one click but as others seem to be having probs I thought I would mention it. Please feel free to visit my Gallery on PDNFans And my Alternatives to PDN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katlomas Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 (edited) I was so happy to see the latest release of PDN and then so VERY unhappy to find that the program will only run on Windows 7 or later. What about us poor dinosaurs who still run Vista, in my case, or even XP for others? As a disabled person on a pension, I can afford neither a new computer nor to purchase Windows 7 to upgrade my system. I think this is most unfair and deprives us of the new features available with this version. Edited August 11, 2014 by katlomas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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