This should fix all the File->Save dialog issues, in addition to the fixes detailed at http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=33567
http://www.getpaint.net/files/zip/test/Paint.NET.3.54.3698.34409.Beta.Install.zip
This build is not available via the built-in updater. There is no need to uninstall your old version; that will be taken care of automatically. You can also reinstall v3.5.3 if you need to, in case this v3.5.4 beta is cranky.
I was hoping I wouldn't need another update, especially so soon, but an issue with File -> Save As was reported and it's honestly important. See the discussion here: http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=33660
Reproducing this is easy,
1. Start up Paint.NET
2. Open any image, we'll call this A.
3. Open another image from a different folder. We'll call this B.
4. Switch back to the first image.
5. File -> Save As
In previous versions, and according to both expectation and convention, the Save As dialog should start up from the folder that A was opened from. Instead, it opens up from B's folder. If you aren't paying strict attention (and honestly you shouldn't need to) you could save "A" under a new name but then not be able to find it because it's not where you thought you put it!
Stated more generically, the Save As dialog always starts up in the same directory that any previous Open or Save dialog was closed from.
This build also fixes a crash in a few plugins related to their "Open" dialogs. Namely, pyrochild's Color Match ( http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=25300 ).
This release is strictly to fix this one bug: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/20196-does-pdn-delete-picture-once-saved/
So before you ask: no, I didn't add or change anything else, versus v3.5.5. (Well, I changed the icon for 'language'.)
This beta is not available via the built-in updater. I hope to publish the final build soon.
The first alpha for paint.net 4.0 is now available! To download it, please head over to the forum: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/27227-paintnet-40-alpha-build-5034/
Please note that this is an alpha! It is mostly complete but there are bugs, both known and unknown. DO NOT install this if you depend on Paint.NET for your livelihood, for instance, as it might crash at seemingly random times or even corrupt your data (that’s actually very unlikely but, still, use caution). After alpha comes beta, and then final (general availability) or "RTW" (release to web) (also sometimes called RTM).
NOTE: The alpha is not available via the updater in v3.5.11, even if you have “Also check for pre-release (beta) versions” enabled. The beta for 4.0, however, will be made available through that update channel (from v3.5.11, I mean). I’m deliberately doing this in order to keep the audience size smaller for now so that my inbox doesn’t get flooded (I’m also not advertising it on the paint.net website just yet). Newer 4.0 alpha builds will, of course, be automatically offered to you once you have any 4.0 alpha installed.
Here is a list of the most prominent changes between v3.5.11 and 4.0:
System requirements
Windows 7 SP1 or newer is now required.
Windows XP and Windows Vista are no longer supported (paint.net will not install).
.NET Framework 4.5 is now required, and will be installed if needed.
A dual-core (or more!) CPU is highly recommended. (I no longer test on single core systems, btw.)
A brand new, asynchronous, fully multithreaded rendering engine
Performance scales very well with respect to the number of CPU cores, whether you have 2, 4, 6, or even 16 of them.
Performance scales much better with large, or even huge, images. Rendering will slow down and you will see tiles “trickling” in as they are completed, but the UI will still be responsive to your changes and clicks.
The canvas now uses hardware acceleration via Direct2D, which also improves performance.
Memory usage is lower.
Selections have been improved in many ways
Antialiased selections. You may turn this on/off at any time from the toolbar.
Selection outlines are now rendered with the “dancing ants” animation.
Performance of selection rendering and manipulation (Move Selection tool) have been fantastically improved.
General UI
The functionality previously provided by the Utilities, Window, and Help menus has been simplified, consolidated, and moved to the top-right corner of the main window.
A brand new Settings dialog makes it much easier to configure all the tool and toolbar defaults, among other things.
The zoom slider and units selector have been moved from the toolbar to the bottom right corner of the window (into the status bar).
The image thumbnail list is now left-aligned and does not move around when you switch between certain tools.
The image thumbnail list can now be reordered with drag-and-drop.
Updated theming to a white, blue, flat motif.
Tools
Tools may now draw directly with a blending mode, configurable from the toolbar. All of the layer blending modes are supported, as well as “Overwrite.”
Drawing tools (Pencil, Paintbrush, Eraser, Clone Stamp, Recolor) now have much smoother mouse input handling via GetMouseMovePointsEx.
Brush tools (Paintbrush, Eraser, Clone Stamp, Recolor) now have soft brushes support via a “Hardness” setting in the toolbar.
The Move tools (Move Selected Pixels, Move Selection) have a much better UI for scaling, moving, and (especially) rotation.
Color Picker has a configurable sampling radius, and can sample from either the current layer or the whole image.
Gradient tool now supports a new “Spiral” gradient type, and allows configuration of the repeat mode (none, repeat, wrapped).
Magic Wand and Paint Bucket now allow live adjustment of Tolerance and the Origin (click location) after clicking (press Enter to commit/finish).
Magic Wand and Paint Bucket can now sample from either the current layer or the whole image.
The Paint Bucket now supports anti-aliasing.
The Recolor tool can now use the color of the pixel where you click as the color to be replaced. Or, as usual, it can use the secondary color.
The new Shapes tool replaces the Line/Curve, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, and Freeform shape tools. 29 shapes are currently available. You may move, resize, and rotate a shape, as well as reconfigure any other properties from the toolbar (color, outline size, etc.) before committing it to the layer.
Miscellaneous
Layers can now be reordered with drag-and-drop
Edit –> Copy Merged
Shift+Backspace will now fill the selection with the secondary color (Backspace fills with primary color, as usual)
Ctrl+Click on the Move Layer Up/Down buttons will now move a layer to the top/bottom
New exception/error dialog
Improved battery life impact due to fixing the way the floating windows manage their transparency
paint.net now shows up in the “Default Programs” control panel so you can configure its file type associations
Improved performance of saving .PDN images
Image->Resize has improved super sampling qualityHere’s a list of the changes between the previous alpha build (5064) and this one (5086):
Text tool
Colored fonts are now supported in Windows 8.1 (e.g. Segoe UI Emoji).
You can now choose between Smooth, Sharp (Modern), and Sharp (Classic) rendering. These correspond to the DirectWrite’s rendering modes of Outline, Natural Symmetric, and GDI Classic.
OpenType/Adobe fonts are now included in the list of fonts.
Fixed some layout glitches that caused text to be incorrectly clipped and/or the cursor to appear in the wrong location.
Selections
Drawing a rectangle selection with a fixed ratio followed by a Crop operation was often resulting in an extra row or column of partially transparent pixels.
When using aliased selection clipping while zoomed in, the selection was often rendered in the wrong location and/or at the wrong angle.
When drawing a rectangle selection, the status bar would always say it had zero area.
Selection adjustments would sometimes result in half-pixel alignment of the selection outline.
Deselecting via pressing Enter or Escape was not working consistently.
Fixed some rendering artifacts when scaling the selection to a small size.
Fixed some rendering glitches after pasting when a selection was already active.
You can now use the middle mouse button for panning at any time.
Panning via spacebar while a selection tool was active didn’t always show the correct mouse cursor.
UI text now honors the user’s control panel settings for ClearType and antialiasing of text.
Edit->Copy now includes the PNG format when initializing the clipboard data, which allows applications like Office to paste with full transparency information.
The Diagnostics page in the Settings dialog now includes a “Copy to Clipboard” button and a “Open crash log folder” link.
The Eraser tool now uses the alpha value of the current color.
Double-clicking the “roll ball” in Rotate/Zoom was not resetting all the values to their defaults.
Fixed some visual artifacts when using the Line or Curve shape along with certain arrow end caps.
Ctrl+[ was not reducing the brush size by 5.
Fixed a crash in the Move and Shape tools when adjusting the rotation anchor while using the Classic theme on Windows 7.
Some of the new toolbar items didn’t have tooltips.
When hovering the mouse over a taskbar image, the main window was always showing a blank image for the corresponding tab.
Fixed a bug in the Colors window where it would incorrectly switch to the Primary color when you clicked on the Hue slider.
Removed the legacy Ctrl+Alt+0 keyboard shortcut for View->Zoom to Actual Size, which was preventing some characters from working in the Text tool.Here are the changes since the last alpha build (5143):
Added a "Finish" (aka commit) button in the toolbar. It looks like a green check mark. This makes it much easier to discover how you finish a shape and then draw another one, for instance. Most of the non-brush tools support this (e.g. Move, Gradient, Magic Wand, Paint Bucket, Text).
Added a choice between Light and Blue color schemes to Settings. The default on Windows 8/8.1 is Light, and the default on Windows 7 is Blue.
Fixed some artifacts in the Magic Wand when making a "Global" selection
Fixed a crash in the Magic Wand tool that was causing people a lot of grief ("this.baseGeometry == null")
Fixed a crash in various tools (crash in ClickDragBehavior.cs line 270)
Fixed brush strokes being completely erratic over Remote Desktop
Fixed some very broken UI rendering over Remote Desktop with Windows 8
The icons in the top-right of the main window are now scaled correctly for high-DPI
Fixed a crash if you clicked to undo multiple actions after committing a shape
Fixed some performance issues whereby non-active images were still rendering stuff in the background
Fixed many tools emitting a history item even if the image was unaffected (e.g. drawing a brush stroke outside of the canvas)
Fixed a leftover progress bar in the status bar after loading an image
Fixed Ctrl+Arrow keys not moving the selection by 10 pixels (it only moved by 1 px) if you didn’t first release the Ctrl key after you pasted with Ctrl+V
Removed the dangling "Tool:" tooltip on the Tool selection button in the toolbar
Fixed a crash when the language was changed if the new language’s localized "paint.net User Files" folder already existed
Fixed the dash style button in the toolbar being too skinny at 96 DPI (it worked fine at >96 DPI)
Fixed the main window’s application icon being off by 2 pixels
Fixed Ctrl+D reverting selection movement if it was pressed too quickly after using the arrow keys
Fixed some missed thumbnail updates, especially for the Layers window
Fixed the Width/Height text boxes in the toolbar for Fixed Selection not having an outline around them
Fixed a visual styles related crash on some buttons in some cases
Fixed the main installer not running after the .NET 4.5.1 installer if it required a reboot
Fixed the installer seeming to disappear if there wasn’t enough disk space to install .NET 4.5.1
Shapes no longer finish/commit if you press the delete key
Non-active images no longer update their thumbnails when you make changes in another image which affect them (e.g. if you leave an uncommited shape on image 1, then switch to image 2 and change the color)
Fixed a crash in the Text tool if you try to use a "bad" font (one which shows up in the font list as a yellow exclamation mark) Added new languages: Dutch, Finnish, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal)
Fixed many typos and clumsy translations in various languages
Fixed the main window growing taller and flashing black after being minimized and then restored
Fixed the tools committing their changes to the image when trying to exit the application (waste of CPU/disk)
Fixed the current layer not being preserved when using one of the Image -> Rotate commands
Fixed keyboard shortcuts not working in some cases if the mouse was positioned over the toolbar
Fixed some inappropriate text wrapping in drop down boxes in German (the text is now clipped with "..." instead)
Fixed the Recolor tool's shortcut mistakenly being 'e' instead of 'r'
Pressing 'A' now cycles through the shapes when the Shapes tool is active (Shift+A cycles backward)
Fixed mouse input centering for the brush tools when antialiasing was disabled
Re-enabled Ctrl+D as a "commit" button
Moved the "Finish" button (green checkmark) to the end of the toolbar and included the "Finish" text so that it is easier to aim at
Fixed some font previews rendering as gray instead of black
Fixed a crash that was most easily reproducible by copying an image from IE11 and then clicking on File->New Image
Image close buttons are now appropriately styled on Windows 7
Fixed a dangling progress bar after running some effects
Fixed some drifting color value problems in the Colors window when changing Hue, Saturation, and/or Value
Fixed a crash caused by 3rd-party visual themes that try to use fonts that don't exist
Fixed a crash when toggling a layer's visibility while using the Move Selected Pixels tool and then undoing
Fixed a crash when opening an image due to not being able to create the thumbnail for the File -> Open Recent list
Fixed a crash on startup due to the user's My Documents folder not existing
Changed the canvas background color to gray when using the Blue theme
Fixed an error whereby committing an action, changing the active layer, undoing, and then redoing would cause the action to be redone on the new layer instead of the one it was originally drawn on
Fixed shortcut keys not working for toggling line styles and caps for the Shapes tool
Fixed some styling issues in the Settings dialog in the Tools section
Fixed some delayed crashes with some effect plugins which would happen when trying to do an action afterward
Fixed a crash caused by pressing Escape while drawing a shape
Fixed many plugin compatibility and crash issues