Rick Brewster released the 2nd Alpha of the great Paint.NET program. Which features have been added?
New: Gradient Tool supports linear, radial, diamond, and conical gradient modes. New: Merge Layer Down command in Layers menu and Layers window Changed: A version of the Unsaved Changes dialog is now also shown when closing just 1 unsaved image, instead of the old fashioned Yes/No/Cancel MessageBox Changed: Alpha Blending and Anti-aliasing buttons are now split-buttons, with different icon and some descriptive text Changed: Shortcut key to open the MDI overflow list is now Ctrl+Q, instead of Ctrl+Space If an important installation file is missing, Paint.NET will try to repair the installation instead of crashing 256x256 icon format is now compressed, dropping EXE size by 150K Fixed: a bunch of crashes that users were reporting Fixed: "Load from toolbar" in Choose Defaults dialog did not pick up the active toolDownload Paint.NET v3.0 Alpha 2 here.
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The .NET Aficionado