performance, a new "Curves" adjustment, and seven new layer blend modes. 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. Cleaner user interface with none of the annoying flickering of past releases Many other changes, improvements, and fixes Paint.NET v2.1 v2.1b Released: May 12th, 2005 - Download This small updated fixes a crash when resizing an image with a new width but the same height. v2.1a Released: May 5th, 2005 This small update fixed a few crashes that people were experiencing related to the "Open" and "Save As" dialogs. If you are not experiencing these crashes with v2.1 then you do not need to download this update. v2.1 Released: April 30th, 2005 The major goals of this release were to improve performance, refine the user interface and experience, and to support some highly requested features such as PNG transparency support and JPEG quality configuration. To summarize, Paint.NET v2.1 is much faster, more compatible, and produces better quality images than v2.0. It is a highly recommended upgrade. Many bug fixes and miscellaneous user interface tweaks. Installation