I'm Rick Brewster, author of Paint.NET! I'll be tweeting about .NET, C#, Paint.NET, graphics, Windows things. paint.net
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May 29
I GOT THE DOMAIN! I FINALLY GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!1 🥳🎉
Paint.NET is now at paint.net!
Well, it will be just as soon as I push all the buttons to migrate content and set up redirects from getpaint.net etc. For now it's just a "hey go here" redirect page.
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I GOT THE DOMAIN! I FINALLY GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!1 🥳🎉
Paint.NET is now at paint.net!
Well, it will be just as soon as I push all the buttons to migrate content and set up redirects from getpaint.net etc. For now it's just a "hey go here" redirect page.
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btw if you go to paint.net and you get what looks like a search engine, it means your DNS still hasn't updated
If it looks like this then your DNS is up-to-date:
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And when you're making a post here or elsewhere about Paint.NET, just type Paint.NET. No need to use "paint .net" or "paintdotnet" or "/paint.net" or (my favorite) "Paint.NET" (with invisible zero-width space). No need to fear the auto-linkification of the text.
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The first public alpha of Paint.NET v5.2 is now available! Lots of performance and quality-of-life improvements, and some major infrastructure upgrades that are laying the groundwork for v6.0. Enjoy! 😊
forums.getpaint.net/topic/13…
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The two biggest features in this release are:
1) The brand new layer rendering engine that now uses 32-bit floating point instead of 8-bit integer, and is fully AVX2/AVX512 optimized
2) Brand new modernized FileType plugin system. Fully aware of high bit-depths and color mgmt.
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BTW there is a (currently small) effort to get PDN working on WINE. I don't have the time (etc.) to contribute directly but I am actively responding to questions and providing any insights I think are useful.
Maybe some other folks out there are interested in helping out?
No but there are some folks attempting to get it working on WINE, and I've been providing help in the way of clarifying information and answers
github.com/bluesillybeard/Pa…
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Claude Code just helped make a very important scenario in Paint.NET about 95% faster: Copy. To. Clipboard.
Why's it slow? Mostly it involves encoding a PNG, which is slow because it's single-threaded and involves a lot of computation and compression.
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Smaller images that used to take "several seconds" to copy will now finish almost instantly.
Almost all copy-to-clipboard actions in PDN (starting with v5.2) will now be basically free from a time standpoint.
PNG is no longer a "slow" codec.
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Edit->Copy being slow was always a thorn in my side. One of those issues you bump into all the time but know is too much to try and fix.
Need to load a mid-to-large size photo, make some changes, and copy it over to another app? That takes time ... ugh. Well, now it doesn't.
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