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Here's something that might be fun to play with, whether it's useful or not. It draws cardinal splines, colors them with various brush settings, rotates them etc. For me it was an exercise in GDI+ and OptionBased UI. Any bug reports or suggestions welcome... Found under Effects>Render menu. UI: Option: controls the randomness of the splines. Rotations: how many copies of the spline around a circle. Tension: controls the spline tension, how jagged or 'loopy'. Angle: rotates the splines. Sigma Focus: gradient center. Sigma Scale: gradient falloff. Gradation Size: size of the gradient rectangle. Zoom: zoom in or out. Draw/Fill/Both: how to paint the splines. Color tabs: select Pen/Alt/Bgd colors. Path Brush Draw/Fill: use path brush on either draw or fill. Path Controls: click drop-down to display more path options. AntiAlias: set smoothing mode. Points: click drop-down to display/change point data Menu Button: allows saving and loading of options and other cool stuff. Installation: Unzip "mandala.zip" and copy the following files: mandala.dll, mandala.dlc into the Effects folder of your Paint.NET installation. A typical location is "C:\Program Files\Paint.NET\Effects". OptionBasedLibrary v0.7.9.dll, OptionBasedLibrary v0.7.9.dlc into the folder of your Paint.NET installation (not into the Effects folder!). (unless it is already there, then you can skip this step) A typical location is "C:\Program Files\Paint.NET". Thanks to Midora for the optionBased library and to toe_head2001 for examples of using it. Enjoy. mandala.zip

I have been on an emotional rollercoaster these past couple of weeks. On New Year's Day, I was blessed with my 3rd grandchild, and 4 days later the good Lord summoned my dad home. He was in end-stage Parkinson's and it was a horrible thing to watch. I was so glad to be with him at the end. I'm crying as I'm typing this...he was my last parent to go. I have a big hole in my heart that I hope time will heal. I want to share a couple of pictures with my PDN family. This forum has helped me more than you will ever know. When I joined in late 2015, I was recovering from major surgery, and making art and participating in the forum was very therapeutic for me. Hopefully, I will rejoin you soon. Thank you to all my friends!!

Thanks xod for a great clock plugin! ......and here's the animated version.

Texture Scaler is a seemingly boring but quite useful utility program which allows height maps to be rescaled. The height map is mapped to the specified range. The original range is considered to be 0 to 1 if the Pre-Scale Heights to Entire Range option is disabled, and the minimum height to the maximum height within the selected portion (actually its bounding rectangle) of the image if the option's enabled. The Feather Far Pixels option is useful for erasing the zero-height background when combing height maps using the Texture Merger with the Minimum merge method. Unchecking the Produce 24-Bit Height Map option allows it to be used to scale grayscale height maps (and other grayscale images too, I suppose). Here is the plugin (version 1.2.6431.28257): TextureScaler.zip From the Help Menu: Texture Scaler scales a height map to a specified range. The controls are: Pre-Scale Heights to Entire Range: When enabled, the height range is adjusted prior to scaling so that the minimum pixel height is zero and the maximum pixel height is one. Equivalently, the minimum height will be mapped to Minimum Height and the maximum height will be mapped to Maximum Height. When there is an active selection, the pixels within the selection's bounding box will be used to determine the depth range. Set Transparent-Pixel Heights to Zero Before Scaling: When enabled, the heights of transparent pixels will be set to zero before mapping to the final range. Equivalently, transparent pixels will be mapped to Minimum Height. Don't Scale Transparent Pixels: When enabled, the heights of transparent pixels are not modified by pre-scaling or by the range scaling. If this option and Set Transparent-Pixel Heights to Zero Before Scaling are both enabled, the heights of transparent pixels are set to zero. Feather Far Pixels: When enabled, the transparency of scaled pixels near the Minimum Height will be increased. Feather Range: Specifies the proportion of the Minimum Height to Maximum Height range that will be feathered when Feather Far Pixels is enabled. When Feather Range is zero, pixels at the Minimum Height are fully transparent and all other pixels are unmodified. When Feather Range is one, the pixel transparency will decrease linearly through the full height range. Produce 24-Bit Height Map: When enabled, the scaled height map will have 24-bits of precision. When disabled, the scaled height map will be an 8-bit grayscale image. Minimum Height: Specifies the minimum value for the scaled height map. Maximum Height: Specifies the maximum value for the scaled height map. The user interface: EDIT: Version 1.1. Replaced buggy version. Increased slider precision from 2 to 3 places. EDIT 8/9/2017: Version 1.2. Fixed various bugs; added "Don't Scale Transparent Pixels" control; Modified feathering control. EDIT 8/10/2017: Version 1.2.6431.28257. Minor change to avoid unlikely problem.

I'm glad you figured out that you need to save your image in a format that preserves the transparency, like PNG. Saving your image as JPG simply won't work as the JPG format doesn't support transparency. By the way, GIF will also work, if your image is 256 colors or less. I still prefer PNG though.

My Dear Lynxster! I'm so sorry, that's really sad. My heartfelt condolences. Congrats on the new baby Aaron.

Deepest condolences on your loss, dear lynxster, and congrats on the new baby

Red Glowing Sphere Effect: Shape 3D + Glow + Dents + Color Zoom Blur + Soften Portrait

Created a dispersion effect in PDN. Brush factory plug-in was used to paint the dispersion brush and then alpha masked. It took several effort to make it work, duplication of layers, and so on.

One more radio!

Latest : The First Serious Attempt With Paint.NET 3.5.11 On Linux Lite : " Love Is Like The Crystal Orb " ( Click the link for original view ) Original Picture

Dear Lynxster! Congratulations for the award.

Such a Lovely way to begin 2017 with such a great regards from good friends Great feeling to start well, i want to tell you guys something about something: you all have your images on the drive i guess, like i do. and the thing is that i wonder if you 'look at them" like i do ? Well i think i am in relations with "all of them" So the next Video is about old image which i combine with new Animation. I guess its called "New Beginnings"

Dear NomBot! Thank you so much for your effort. Very nice plugin.