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Paint.NET is a very useful tool and does everything I needed from Photoshop. Except for one thing: in Photoshop it's possible to adjust the text kerning/spacing. This was not possible in Paint.NET and I couldn't find a plugin for it. So I decided to write one myself! Please let me know of any issues and/or feature requests! Download here: SpacedTextPlugin.zip It's under Effects -> Text Formations -> Spaced Text Tested on Paint.NET 4.0.17 Note: this plugin clears the layer on which it is used. Make sure to create a new layer when using this effect! Features Text spacing adjustment Automatic line wrapping Alignment to left, right, centered or justified Configurable anti-aliasing quality Supports bold, italic and underline styles Renders inside selection Known issues No support for OTF fonts Letter spacing doesn't work for Asian and Hebrew characters Justify option together with negative letter spacing causes lines to be chopped off at the right side Source code is available from https://github.com/simmetric/Paint.NET-Plugins (this is for software developers)

Quite by chance I tried Gossamer to create some travel routes on an RPG world map. I was stunned to find that it worked even better than I had hoped! Now all I have to do is place towns and cities at the intersections (the more intersections the larger the town) and my map has taken a massive step forwards. Many thanks Red!

"Ink Sketch" followed by multiple instances of "Screen" blending modes.

Red ochre plugin pack 10.1 Released 6th March 2017 Here is an installer (written and kindly shared by Boltbait) This version is for Pdn 4 and 5+ ONLY InstallRedochrePack10_1.zip Download (Installer) Here is the zipped folder of .dlls for more experienced users. All the .dlls should work on both Pdn 3.5.11 and Pdn 4+ except 'ClipDisplaceAA.dll', this will not work on Pdn3.5.11, please use 'ClipDisplace3_5_11.dll' instead. Both .dlls in the zipped folder, please don't install both! Red ochre v10_1 plugin pack.zip ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These plugins are free! However, if you find my plugins and tutorials useful, a $5 donation would be much appreciated! Donate If you'd rather not - that's fine, just post a (decent) picture you have made using them ... or award me a 'rep' point by clicking on the heart button at the lower right of this post (when logged in). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would like to thank all the programmers here, without which many of these effects would never have been published. Notably:Rick Brewster, Ego Eram Reputo, Boltbait, TechnoRobbo, Null54 and M.J.W. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are the plugins: Aardvark new to pack 10 Tiles an image with choices for reflected and brick tiling, rotation and perspective distortions Co-authored by 'M.J.W.' Menu:Effects/Distort .dll name = Aardvark ArtyThing new to pack 10 Can be used on an image to imitate a range of artistic effects. Menu:Effects/Artistic .dll name = ArtyThing Alpha-threshold Useful for smoothly adjusting transparency gradients. Menu: Effects/Transparency .dll name = AlphaThreshold Object Bevel (previously called Bevel Object) updated from pack 9 Lighting effects for objects Menu:Effects/Object .dll name = ObjectBevel Bezncurve Updated version in pack 10.1 (that doesn't crash Pdn!) Renders curves with 6 control points. Menu:Effects/Render .dll name = Bezncurve ClipDisplace new to pack 10 Uses the clipboard image tone to distort the current layer. Menu:Effects/Distort .dll name = ClipDisplaceAA (for Pdn4 in the installer and the zipped pack) .dll name = ClipDisplace3_5_11(for Pdn 3.5.11 and in the zipped pack) Cobweb Creates lines on an image related to the 'tone gradient' of the image... & stars! Menu:Effects/Artistic .dll name = Cobweb CompoGrids New to pack 10.1 Renders a choice of grids useful as a guide for composition Menu:Effects/Composition .dll name = CompoGrids Composition tool Useful for cropping photos by rule of thirds or golden section Menu: Effects/Photo .dll name = Compotool contour Splits an image into bands based on the tone value, with a variety of colouring options Menu: Effects/Artistic .dll name = contour Cuboids new to pack 10 Turns an image into cubes, with adjustable lighting. Menu: Effects/Iterative lines .dll name = Cuboids Dryad (can now use linear gradients) updated from pack 9 Creates realistic trees, plants and fractal patterns. Menu: Effects/Iterative lines .dll name = Dryad Earths and greys Simplifies an image based on tonal value and will colour it with a choice of palettes. Menu: Effects/Color .dll name = Earths&Greys Facet new to pack 10 Changes an image into pyramids with adjustable lighting. Menu:Effects/Iterative lines .dll name = Facet Flourish New to pack 10.1 Renders double spiral shapes. Menu:Effects/Render .dll name = Flourish FurBlur Blurs/Trails random fibres onto an image to produce hair, fur and grass textures. Menu:Effects/Blurs .dll name = FurBlur Gears new to pack 10 Renders a wide variety of gear wheel, cog and pulley shapes. Menu:Effects/Iterative lines .dll name = Gears Gossamer new to pack 10 Finds and highlights image edges with fine lines. Menu:Effects/Iterative lines .dll name = Gossamer Gradients galore! (Many new gradient shapes added) updated from pack 9 Wide choice of moveable gradients, with dithering and HSV options. Menu: Effects/Render .dll name = Gradientsgalore helix Renders spiral and helix shapes and colourful gradients. Menu:Effects/Iterative lines .dll name = Helix Highlight Produces a range of adjustable twinkly things, water glints, flares and rainbows. Menu: Effects/Render .dll name = highlightv2 MultiSpline new to pack 10 Draws close spaced splines randomly or from the source image Menu: Effects/Iterative lines .dll name: MultiSpline New Clipwarp Wraps the clipboard image around an object based on its tone gradient. Good for glass, metal and water. Menu:Effects/Tools .dll name = ClipWarpNew Noise choice Allows you to blend noise with the image, on objects or on a transparent layer. Menu: Effects/Noise .dll name = noisechoice Object2colour Allows you to blend a colour with the objects original colour and 'clean' the transparent areas. Menu: Effects/Object .dll name = Object2colour Object edges Simply produces a range of outline/bevel effects on objects. Menu: Effects/Object .dll name = Objectedge Overblur Changes the value of the Gaussian blur applied. Useful for sharpening or producing halo effects and can be constrained to the object only. Menu: Effects/Blurs .dll name = overblur Poster New to pack 10.1 Creates a poster effect using the average colours in the image. Menu: Effects/Composition .dll name = Poster Psychocolour One slider produces a range of psychedelic effects. Also useful for giving colour to black and white images. Menu: Effects/Color .dll name = Psychocolour Recolour choice Different algorithms to isolate or change selected colours. Menu: Effects/Color .dll name = recolourchoice Selection2clear Makes the current selection transparent without deselecting. Useful for erasing on different layers. Menu: Effects/Transparency .dll name = selection2clear Scintillate Inverts an images colours in a chequered pattern. Can produce Moire patterns. Menu:Effects/Stylize .dll name = Scintillate Scribble Imitates various hand-drawn styles. Menu:Effects/Artistic .dll name = Scribble Note! the version in the pack may cause problems with very high d.p.i. machines. If so please try the version here:beta Scribble slinky Renders ellipses along a path. Menu:Effects/Iterative lines .dll name = Slinky Squirkle Produces a range of shapes from diamond, through circles, squirkles ellipses and rounded rectangles. Menu: Effects/Render .dll name = squirkle Squirklewarp Powerful distortion tool useful for glass spheres, water ripples and recursive images. Menu: Effects/Distort .dll name = squirklewarp StringAndPin and CalliColour Colourful Patterns Menu: Effects/Iterative lines .dll name = StringAndPin .dll name = CalliColour Table new to pack 10 An alternative way to render tables and grids Menu:Effects/Render .dll name = Table Two Tone Threshold Useful for creating black & white images. Menu:Adjustments .dll name = TwoToneThreshold Vanishing Point New to pack 10.1 Renders two triangular perspective lines. Useful as a guide layer. Menu:Effects/Composition .dll name = VanishPoint ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOT in the pack ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- They either haven't been added to the pack yet or have been removed. They can be found here: Grow Tone Gradient Angle Tone Gradient Magnitude Tweak edges Detects abrupt changes in tone, producing outlines. Menu: Effects/Artistic .dll name = Tweakedges Tweakedges.zip Tweak transparency Clipwarp (old version)

All done in PDN adapted from a tutorial.

Hi @simmetric! Welcome to the paint forum. Thank you so much for your effort.

That's me. I was going to post this in the same thread but can't remember my login info. I've tried using the artistic effects without much success. We are trying to turn a photo into line art that can be printed on a box. I attached the original photo and one of my first attempts at it.

::keywords::edges|shading|halo|gossamer|cobwebs|outlines ::Menu::Effects/Iterative lines ::Original release date:: 10th of February 2015 ::Author:: Red ochre (John Robbins) ::dll name:: Gossamer Works on both Pdn 3.5.11 (old) & Pdn 4.0.5(current). Firstly, thank you to my fellow dwarves, TechnoRobbo and Ego Eram Reputo, for their help testing and useful suggestions. This effect works in two stages. Step 1: shows the 'edge' pixels it has found as red dots on a black background. Step 2: Draws lines from one edge pixel to another, with a choice of distance, colour and opacity. NOTE: if there are a large number of 'edge' pixels found or the number of lines per pixel is large, it can be very slow. However under normal usage it only takes a few seconds. Here is the .dll and below are some examples with screenshots of settings. Please post any images you make using it in this thread. I'd love to see what you can all make with it! Enjoy. Gossamer is now in my V10 plugin pack here: Red ochre v10 plugin pack

Yes, it called a Clipboard manager. These are stand alone programs, and not integrated into paint.net. These work just as you described. They list last few items that have been on the clipboard, and you can select one of them to place it back on the clipboard. Personally, I like to use ClipX. http://bluemars.org/clipx/

Rotate/Zoom only handles a small subset of possible perspective transformations. Essentially, the distance from the eye to the rectangle is fixed. It's difficult, if not impossible, to match a given transformation.

Thank you @simmetric! This will come in handy I'm sure. Can the LetterSpacing slider go in increments of .01 when using the up/down arrow buttons, instead of 1.00? Other than that, great job!!

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Great!! The more the merrier!!

I'll join the party. : )

I tried an experiment on my old laptop, with paint.net version 3.5.11, and the first time I tried it, I got something to work ...... but it did not show up the images in the white area properly, which was supposed to be little blue butterflies. Then, when I tried to use it once more in 3.5.11 it would not work again AT ALL. So weird that it works for @Eli in Windows 10 and v4.0.13 - must be something in the air ............ or, we need to drink some French wine . I tried Italian and it didn't work .

I have Win 10. I am using Paint.Net 4.0.13. It works for me.

Beautiful work as per usual Pixey :-) I like your use of Dents.

Pack updated. Both installer (for Pdn4+ only) and zipped pack. BeznCurve fixed for Pdn4. Flourish, Vanishing Point, CompoGrids and Poster added. Thanks to BoltBait for the installer and for tweaking my upload limit to allow the pack to be attached.