November 26th, 2005
3.39 MB, English and German
The major goals of this release were to improve performance, expand selection support to be much more useful and powerful, provide support for localization to other languages, and to have an easier way for users to have the latest version (update manager). Other features added include the ability to work with measurements in inches and centimeters, a 3D Rotate/Zoom effect, Sepia adjustment, Radial Blur and Add Noise effects, GIF transparency support, TGA file format support, file format plugin support, and a refined Text tool.
What's new in Paint.NET v2.5?
- Faster performance and lower memory usage
- Full flexibility for scaling, rotating, and moving selections and selected pixels
- Ability to subtract from and add to selections
- Internationalization (I18N) support
- Officially available in German
- Line / Curve tool lets you draw spline and Bézier curves
- Ability to work in measurements of inches and centimeters
- 3D Rotate / Zoom effect lets you rotate, tilt, and tile images at various perspectives
- Radial Blur and Add Noise effects
- Sepia adjustment
- Improved Text Tool, including higher quality font rendering
- GIF transparency support
- TGA file format support
- Greater extensibility with a brand new File Format API
- Simpler, faster setup wizard
- Update manager simplifies getting the latest version
- Cleaner user interface with none of the annoying flickering of past releases
- Many other changes, improvements, and fixes