The feature requires Windows Ink, which most drawing devices support. To use the option, click the Effects menu and select Bokeh in the Blurs sub-menu.įinally, Paint.NET has added ‘pressure sensitivity’ to let you write and draw with naturalistic brush strokes using a stylus pen or graphics tablet. This replaces the old Unfocus blur effect and has a Quality slider that goes up to 10 instead of the 6 found in rival image editors.

Our favourite new tool is the Bokeh effect, which lets you blur the background of photos while keeping the subject in focus. Additionally, the Sepia option has been improved with an Intensity slider that lets you better control the level of sepia saturation, while the new Straighten effect makes it easier to rotate and zoom images to fit the main canvas. There are new adjustments you can apply to your images, including Exposure, ‘Highlights & Shadows’ and ‘Temperature & Tint’, which you previously needed to install plug-ins to use. By default, the program uses what Windows calls the ‘performance GPU’ for rendering, but you can tweak its settings if necessary by clicking the Settings cog (top right) and selecting Graphics. This makes the software faster and more stable, improves picture quality and colour accuracy, and boosts battery life on your laptop by requiring less processing power for editing tasks. Paint.NET 5 switches to using your PC’s graphic processor (GPU) to render (display) images and apply nearly all of its adjustments and effects.

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