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Paint.NET is image and photo manipulation software designed to be used on computers that run Windows. It supports layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the MS Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple tool for photo and image editing.

Changes:

This release adds two new effects originally written by David Issel "BoltBait", support for the DDS filetype originally written by Dean Ashton, as well as many small bug fixes and some visual fit and finish.

* Note: For the beta, the new features are only presented in English. The final release will have complete translations for the other supported languages.
* New: Soften Portrait effect, by David Issel
* New: Ink Sketch effect, by David Issel
* New: DirectDraw Surface (DDS) file format support, by Dean Ashton. Improved from the original source code by optimizing the DXT compression library "Squish" to take advantage of multiple cores or processors.
* Improved: Visual fit-and-finish for the Layers window.
* Improved: Visual fit-and-finish for the close / 'X' button on image thumbnails.

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