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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Someone even got it to run on a Mac 😯 This was not on my bingo card for this decade Obviously still lots of rough and sharp edges, but this is major progress seeing as how it hasn't been able to boot on Mac since 2014 or so

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For example bsky.app/profile/azur...

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Why am I listed as an AI Hater 😂😭 (yeah I sent the appeal message, I just find this hilarious given what happened today)

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Also I don't follow what's going on with Adobe, or Clip Studio Paint. I haven't logged into DeviantArt in like 15 years (I think I deleted my account) and I've never heard or ArtStation. I'm a software engineer, NOT an artist. I can draw a ... fucking ... space cat. That's my level.

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

And, voilà, PDN v5.1.12 vs. v5.2 shows sRGB versus the correctly imported Rec. 2020 color profile via CICP:

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

For example, a PNG image is allowed to have CICP metadata without also having an ICC profile. If your PNG viewer/editor does not support CICP then that image will default so sRGB and won't look correct. Chris Lilley's blog post has a good example: svgees.us/blog/cICP.ht...

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The plugin itself won't need to change for any of this to work. Here's another example where the image, a Cyberpunk 2077 screenshot taken in HDR (PQ), has blown up brightness in PDN 5.1, but looks quite decent in 5.2:

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

In 5.2, with an updated AVIF plugin that utilizes PDN's new FileType plugin system with CICP, HDR, and tone mapping support:

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

You can easily end up with images that look washed out, or whose brightness is completely blown up. Here's an example of how the current AVIF plugin handles the SDR vs. HDR version of the same image which you can download at wide-gamut.com/test/image-hdr :

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

btw if you go to paint.net and you get what looks like a search engine, it means your DNS still hasn't updated If it looks like this then your DNS is up-to-date:

Screenshot of Paint.NET website. It says, "You're probably looking for the Paint.NET application for Windows. Click here to go there!" (which links to getpaint.net) "This site will be updated soon and will be the official website for Paint.NET."

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Paint.NET 5.1.12 is now available! This is a small update that adds a new translation (Kazakh) and updates the bundled DDS and JPEG XL plugins to their latest versions. forums.getpaint.net/topic/134336...

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Paint.NET 5.1.11 is now available! This is a hotfix for the just-released 5.1.10 to fix the new IDxgiAdapterService2 that didn't land correctly for some reason. forums.getpaint.net/topic/134168...

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Paint.NET 5.1.10 is now available! Just a few bug fixes, a new translation (Romanian), and updates to the bundled FileType plugins (AVIF, JPEG XL, and WebP). Enjoy! forums.getpaint.net/topic/134166...

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Paint.NET 5.1.9 is now available! This is mostly a maintenance release with some important bug fixes, but it also adds a new Bulgarian translation. Enjoy! forums.getpaint.net/topic/133998...

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Paint.NET 5.1.8 is now available. This is mostly a maintenance release that fixes some bugs and updates the bundled DDS FileType plugin. forums.getpaint.net/topic/133570...

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Paint.NET 5.1.7 is now available. It's a hotfix for brush rendering to not occasionally have segments that are drawn twice. forums.getpaint.net/topic/133433...

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Paint.NET 5.1.6 is now available. It's hotfix for a memory leak, and for a crash on ARM64 with the bundled JpegXLFileType plugin. forums.getpaint.net/topic/133399...

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Paint.NET 5.1.5 is now available! JPEG XL (*.jxl) support has been added, quantization color quality has been improved, and AVIF HDR->SDR tone mapping is also improved. forums.getpaint.net/topic/133399...

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I just pushed out a beta for Paint.NET 5.1.5 -- this update includes JPEG XL (*.jxl) support, quality improvements for quantization and for AVIF HDR image loading, and of course some more bug fixes. Check it out! forums.getpaint.net/topic/133371...

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Paint.NET 5.1.4 is now available! This update is mostly a hotfix that fixes installation on Windows Server systems. forums.getpaint.net/topic/133318...

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Paint.NET 5.1.3 is now available! Lots of small improvements and bug fixes in this release. forums.getpaint.net/topic/133303...

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

And here's how it looks with the fix in place. I won't highlight the frames, it should be obvious if you looked at the previous screenshot. This is MUCH better! Each frame is always quick, and they're obviously happening at a much more regular pace.

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Here's how this looks with a Systrace flamegraph. I've highlighted each frame that the canvas renders over 2.2 seconds or so. Notice the frames at the beginning and towards the end are obviously taking a lot longer, and the overall pacing is just bad:

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I just posted a beta for Paint.NET v5.1.3 -- this update has a whole bunch of general improvements, performance optimizations, and bug fixes. Check it out! forums.getpaint.net/topic/133299...

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Paint.NET 5.1.2 is now available! Fixed some more bugs, particularly the flickering and mouse trails caused by NVIDIA's "Fast VSync" option. forums.getpaint.net/topic/133147...

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

It says in the control panel:

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

If you're getting black and white flickery/glitchy artifacts in Paint.NET since version 5.1, I finally figured it out: TURN OFF NVIDIA'S "FAST VSYNC" This isn't a PDN bug, it's just NVIDIA giving everyone a footgun that sounds really cool. Apparently it's a nasty hack.

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Rick Brewster @rickbrew.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Paint.NET 5.1.1 is now available! Mostly bug fixes from 5.1, including workarounds for a crash and hang caused by Sentinel One (enterprise AV), and display issues on some NVIDIA GPUs w/ VRR displays. Also added a Fill option to Image->Canvas Size. forums.getpaint.net/topic/132777...

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