As a popular free image editing software, Paint.NET is insisting on innovation and improvement. This time it released the 3.5.3 Final. Like previous ones, Paint.NET 3.5.3 Final still contains an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins.See what's new in Paint.NET 3.5.3 Final:

* Fixed DirectDraw Surface (.dds) file format support for CPUs which do not have SSE2 (Pentium III, Athlon XP).
* Fixed an issue with the File-> save dialog related to file type plug-ins that were only written for opening (importing).
* Fixed some crashes which were supposed to be "out of memory" errors
* Fixed a race condition with the New Image, Canvas Size, and Resize dialogs. If you typed extremely fast you could cause a crash by typing a negative number and immediately pressing OK or Enter.
* Fixed a File-> save dialog issue in Win7/Vista where it could ask you about overwriting the wrong file.

Update your Paint.NET to 3.5.3 right now!

I can state without fear of being wrong that most of us have used Paint at least once. As simple as it is, the drawing tool included in Windows falls really short before other commercial graphics editing programs like Photoshop or Corel Draw. But, what if we put both worlds together in a single program? And what if we really get greedy and ask for it to be free?

Paint.NET is an amazing piece of freeware which is drawing the attention of more and more users who need to get fast, professional yet easy-to-use solutions for image and photo editing without getting lost in the complexity of other graphic editors like Adobe's. So, what is it that makes of Pain.NET such a powerful app? Well, the list of features and perks is really endless, but just to mention a few I can tell you that Paint.NET brings an innovative and easy to understand interface, layers support, unlimited undo and redo capabilities and an incredible capability to apply effects.

Paint.NET also comes with automated image optimization tools including color adjustment, red-eye removal and greyscale or sepia conversion, and you can also perform more advanced tweaks in a full manual way. An interesting detail is that when you have several images open you can have thumbnail preview. But, above all, what is more important is that Paint.NET can carry out all of its functions at really low resources consumption.

Of course there are a lot of other various solid and handy tools, you can check this article at HandyWare for further reading, and here for a list of novelties and bug fixes for the latest version. Read the rest of this entry »

Impressive, an absolute joy and amazing paint? Exactly, that's the Paint.NET. This free image and photo editing software for a majority of photographic fans has just now released the 3.51 Final version. As usual, Paint.NET 3.51 Final remains the major popular features, such as intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins are also quite popular and practical.

In Paint.NET 3.51 Final, some bugs are fixed below:

• Fixed an issue where Paste into New Image would refuse an image on the clipboard, even if regular Paste would take it
• Fixed a race condition with Edit->Paste and Image->Resize whereby it would take up 100% CPU and take between 1 minute to 1 hour to finish
• Fixed an issues with Copy/Paste where it would leave an extra line of transparent pixels on the left, top, right, and/or bottom edges
• Fixed lag with the paintbrush tool that was being seen on some systems
• Fixed some issues with the paintbrush and eraser tool being misaligned when zoomed in
• Fixed a crash that would happen at (seemingly) random times, such as after drawing with the paintbrush tool, on some systems
• Fixed a minor and obscure rendering glitch with the Move Selected Pixels tool
• Fixed an issue with glass over Remote Desktop or Windows 7 Virtual PC Read the rest of this entry »

Paint.NET is free and famous image editing software. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins. New Paint.NET 3.50 Final is published with performace improvements in many areas. Also the overall memory usage has also been greatly reduced. In Paint.NET 3.5 Final, many built-in performance improvements have been included, such as:

* New effect: Blurs -> Surface Blur, by Ed Harvey
* New effect: Distort -> Dents, by Ed Harvey
* New effect: Distort -> Crystalize, by Ed Harvey

Besides, there are also some other interface updates as below:

* The user interface has been refreshed with new icons, and visual styling has been enhanced for Aero Glass (Windows 7 / Vista only).
* The built-in updater now has the ability to download updates in the background, and will wait until you exit Paint.NET to install them.

Without hesitation, update the Paint.NET 3.50 Final right now right here from Brothersoft!

Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software and it features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins. Moreover, in Paint.NET 3.5 Build 3561, it Changes and fixes:

* The menu bar was rendering incorrectly for certain themes (Windows 7 / Vista).
* Some items were not showing up in the 'Recent Items' jump list (Windows 7).
* Clicking on the canvas straight from the menu would cause the paintbrush to draw a long streak.
* Copy+Paste would sometimes miss a pixel edge on the right/bottom sides, when using Fixed Ratio / Fixed Size modes.
* Fixed a crash when moving pixels off-canvas, switching tools, then trying to move the pixels back onto the canvas.
* Fixed some messed up rendering for IndirectUI effect dialogs (Windows XP).
* Performance is improved when switching between images that have lots of layers.
* Aero 'snap' wasn't working when dragging part of the glassy area of the toolbar (Windows 7).
* Added a new menu item, Window -> Glass Dialog Buttons. You can use this to disable the "glass footers" for dialogs (Windows 7 / Vista). Read the rest of this entry »

As a free image and photo editing software for Windows users, Paint.NET is all the time featuring with its intuitive and innovative interface and comprehensive user experiences.

Paint.NET 3.50 Build 3550 release exactly focus on it. Layers, unlimited undo, special effectcs and a wide variey of userful and powerful editing tools, could be better got in control in Paint.NET. General tutorials and help give you the studying way with a better editing fun. Plugins are also available. Totally a Paint.NET 3.50 Build 3550 will definitely satiisfy you with an image editing occean.

Now the Paint.NET 3.50 Build 3550 is avaialable on Brothersoft.com.

What you are about to read is the result of testing ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 under Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7. In order to introduce ACDSee, I may tell you that it is a powerful image viewer with a classic appearance, inherited from its illustrious predecessors. ACDSee Photo Manager 2009 is undoubtedly a solid option to view, edit and organize not only photographs but also video and audio files. As a graphics viewer, ACDSee is unsurpassed in its ability to decode and display images as quickly as possible, even several times faster than many other viewers.

ACDSee is compatible with an impressive number of formats and it comes equipped with many useful tools, it also runs surprisingly smooth and quickly in most PCs. Some improvements were applied to this version such as copying or recording original versions on CD / DVD, which, I think, are really interesting developments.

ACDSee's excellent support for metadata joins fairly advanced editing capabilities, with a lot of filters and a series of wizards that create from thumbnails of all photos contained in a folder to Powerpoint presentations. A series of filters can help you to organize your content in different ways: category to which the image belongs, personal value, information stored in metadata (author, camera, date …), size, file format, etc. If you work with compressed files, you will appreciate how easily ACDSee Photo Manager allows you to browse them as folders. So, let’s see how it behaves when installed and run under Windows 7 environment.

Installation & First Run
The setup procedure was not complicated but somewhat long and implied too many decisions to take and some additional options to choose from. Anyway, regarding what we want to test today, which is incompatibilities and hitches, ACDSee installation, presented not a single one. Read the rest of this entry »

Photo editing is not just required by DTP professionals. It is also required by almost every computer user sometime. I am not a DTP professional but still regularly use photo editing tools to edit and enhance my photos for personal use and for websites. I had tried lots of photo editing tools both freeware and high-end commercial software but finally I settled down on Photobie. It is not a heavy photo editor that demands for heavy system resources as compared to its heavy features. Its bucket of features that are easy to use has forced me to stay on Photobie.

Simple but easy to use Interface
Photobie is flooded with lots of great features but its main interface is not so impressive, especially its standard toolbar is looking something odd. And its Layer Manager panel that should be embedded in main window; remains visible on the top of main window as a separate small window that create hurdle and hide a small part of the image. Situation is worse when I need to edit an image of larger size. All other things are well placed. At the bottom it shows thumbnails of all open images that makes my work further easier and save lots of time. In the dropdown menus almost all features are well managed and explained properly. Read the rest of this entry »

We have to say, more and more image editors or managers are flourishing, among those Picasa is now presently regarded as the most ideal little helper for those photo enthusiasts. But in today's article, I will lead you into another new but also effective 3D zone. That is Pictomio brings for us. What you want it to, it really works. Organize photos, photo marking, tagging and Geo-tagging, let's now see how the Pictomio makes us special and unique.

Multi Management
Marked as an image organizer, the multi management is relatively basic and essential. With so many photos and videos saved in your computer, you just need a real practical manager. Pictomio collects and organizes those files in a very clean and tidy manner. Images are not only grouped by time, size, but also the orientation, types are included. At the same time, we personally can rate them directly and they would be at the same time organized by rating. Thousands of digital intensive photos get ordered and visual. Video management is the same. Thumbnail preview helps you with a better glance at a whole collection. As you like, files displays either in the above-mentioned thumbnails or file formats.

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Image2Punch Lite 1.0
License - Shareware
Publisher - Aucad Drafting

Image2Punch is CAD software used to generate custom perforated patterns based on virtually any digital image document. The perforated pattern can then be converted into a DXF file format for a variety of purposes either at design stage or in the manufacturing process. At the design stage, for example, you can use the perforated pattern to create digital perforated sheet metal for, an example, an integrated component of your 3D presentation. In the manufacturing process, it can be used as a tooling layout to generate a G-Code file. The G-Code file can then be used to create physical custom perforated sheet metal using CNC Machinery such as a Turret Punch or Laser Cutting machine.

Key Features
CNC Turret Punch machine owner/programmer/operator.
CNC Laser Cutting machine owner/programmer/operator.
Lanscape designer.
Interior and exterior designer.
Street furniture designer.
Mechanical Engineer.
Sound technician.
CAD/CAM designer.
Signage designer, or a person who deals with perforate sheet metal.



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