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Hi everyone! I've been doing some 'spring cleaning' on my hard drive, knowing I have hundreds of shape files 'just hanging around'. I've re-categorized them for release. I also made some new ones! In all, there are 358 additional shapes and a zip file within the zip file of my 'colored irises'. Please see my first post for the clickable thumbnail views of the new shapes and the download link for the new shapes named 'Addendum #1 Shapes'. I hope you enjoy these additions. Keep on PDN'ing!! 🤗 🥰

This was changed in Paint.NET v5.0.4 to make the image more accurate at different zoom levels.

I take backwards compatibility very seriously with regard to plugins. Only occasionally will plugins break, and usually I find a way to make it work again in the next update. So, yes it's back-breaking work sometimes (v4.3 especially!!!!), but your expectations should be "it just works" and not "uh oh what's going to break." If something breaks, report it here! I'll do my best to fix it. (although do make sure to check if there's an update to the offending plugin(s) first)

Getting there.. However, the color-palette is not yet the right one. I wanted olny share my progress 😉

May Update A single new plugin this month. Its an image steganography tool by new author Koimtzis. Welcome aboard! Image Steganography Tool Koimtzis Encrypts an image inside another image in a secure way and with a small reduction in quality. Extraction of the hidden image requires use of a password.

Hi @CybrRyno - welcome to the forum Plugins required: Bevel Selection & Outline Steps: Isolate the large symbol on its own otherwise transparent layer. How? Use the Magic Wand + Ctrl key and click on both parts. Press Ctrl + X to copy & delete from the first layer. Press Ctrl + Shift + V to paste the symbol into a new layer. The smaller letters have a suble bevel. You can see this as a lightening of the north and west edges. Select the symbol again. Apply Selection > Bevel Selection with Depth 5 & Strength 2.0. Light Color: 165,50,50. Dark color: 99,32,45. The next thing to add is the outline. It's color is something like 65,0,0. Deselect the symbol and run Outline Object with the color mentioned and radius =3. Final thing is a drop shadow. Effects > Object > Drop Shadow. Radius 11, Distance 7, Opacity 0.9, color Black.

Technically, 50% zoomed texts should look 50% thinner, not 50% smaller texts with the same thickness. Not so many image viewers handle this properly, and PDN is the most accurate one I know of. You can spot the noise because non gamma correct down scaling enhances the noise. So if you want to use down scaling for this purpose, hit Ctrl+R and uncheck gamma correction then you can create a noise enhanced image.

Suggestion: Try light-blue & dark-blue bevels on the raised panel. Light: 107,222,255. Dark: 18,74,114. Then play with the strength and depth settings until it is optically difficult to see the transition from one color to another.

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Thanks Ego. The symbol and text are already in separate layers, both transparent. It just made sense to do so from the start. I will give your other suggestions a try first chance I get.

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Wow! That's some archive and all - jolly well done 🥳

Enter like any other non-numeric character (i.e A-Z, special characters, etc) is not a valid character in the control. Pressing Enter is never required. The control is 'live', i.e the brush size changes as you type each digit. You can see this by, for example: Drawing a line using the Line/Curve tool but don't press Enter or Esc or click Finish Now click in the Brush Size control and type a different size. The line width changes. Click in the Brush Size control again and type another size. The line width changes again.

Welcome to the forum @TheGirlWarlock Personally I would persevere with the current Levels Adjustment dialog and try to train your mind to think about the RGB levels running vertically from 0 at the bottom to 255 at the top. In the end, that will be a lot easier than getting a crick in your neck, screen-snipping and rotating the histograms, or developing a plugin. Your wish (with a bit of lateral thinking) is my command... In the screenshot below, I have laid out my screen with: paint.net on the left the Levels Adjustment dialog top right and the multimedia app PotPlayer from https://potplayer.daum.net/ bottom right Right-click on PotPlayer and from the menu select Video -> Screen Rotation -> 90 degrees Rotation Right-click on PotPlayer again and select Open -> Open Screen Capture - or just press the shortcut Ctrl+S This will open a Camera window, which you can drag and resize so that it sits over the Levels Adjustment dialog as shown in the screenshot below. Everything that is under the Camera window will be displayed in the PotPlayer window but rotated by 90° clockwise. When you adjust the controls in the Levels Adjustment dialog you will see the changes live in the PotPlayer window. To stop screen capturing, right-click on PotPlayer and select Close Playback I'm sure there are other live screen capture apps that can do this, but as I use PotPlayer anyway, it seemed like the easiest kludgey solution.

BoltBait GPU Accelerated Plugin Pack (for Paint.NET v5.0+) NOTE: If you're looking for my plugin pack for Paint.NET v4.3.12, go here, or Paint.NET v3.5.11, go here. If you're in here downloading the 5.0 version of Paint.NET, you're probably familiar with my plugin pack. I have spent the better part of the last 6 months rewriting most of my plugins from scratch... taking advantage of all the new toys @Rick Brewster has given us plugin authors in Paint.NET v5.0. He has completely rewritten the Effect system within Paint.NET v5.0 (Don't worry, all your favorite classic effects will still work.) adding new capabilities for the IndirectUI system and providing access to the GPU so that our effects can run VERY fast! What's New: I have rewritten more than 25 of my plugins so that they will now be GPU accelerated! While I was in there, I also added cool new features. Be sure to check your favorite plugin! Download: Download Donate How to install these plugins. I'm going through a really tough financial time right now. So, any donation no matter how small would be very much welcome! Download Contents: The following effects have been GPU accelerated Adjustment > Black and White Plus Adjustment > Color Balance Adjustment > Combined Adjustments Adjustment > Transparency Artistic > Dream Fill > from Clipboard Fill > from File Object > Apply Alpha Mask Object > Bevel Object Object > Feather Object Object > Inner Shadow Object > Outline Object Object > Switch Alpha to Gray (This is Create Alpha Mask) Object > Switch Gray to Alpha Photo > Level Horizon / Plum Bob Photo > Meme Maker Photo > Photo Adjustments Photo > Remove Dust Photo > Vignette Plus Render > Calendar Creator Render > Flames Selection > Bevel Selection Selection > Blur Selection Edge Selection > Feather Selection Selection > Inner Shadow Selection > Outline Selection Text Formations > Text Fun Factory Object > Drop Shadow Plus The following effects are classic flavor* Adjustment > Hue / Sat+ Flip Horizontal Flip Vertical Artistic > Oil Paint+ Artistic > Pastel Blurs > Gaussian Blur+ Color > Complementary Colors Object > Paste Alpha Photo > Seam Carving Photo > Sharpen Classic Photo > Sharpen Landscape Render > Chart / Graph Render > Dimensions Render > Gradients Render > Grid / Checkerboard Render > Polygon / Stars Stylize > Edge Detect Classic Stylize > Floyd-Steinberg Dithering Outdated plugins removed from my pack Adjustment > Temperature / Tint (now built-in) Text Formations > Creative Text Pro (now Text Fun Factory) Text Formations > Outlined / Gradient Text (now Text Fun Factory) These can still be downloaded here! This pack also includes 57 shapes and 2 palettes. These are the ones I use. *Please post a vote for which of my "classic" effects you'd like to see GPU accelerated next. Screenshots of Various Effects: Outline Selection and Outline Object got some new features and the outlines look MUCH better than previous versions. Check out some of these new features: Bevel now has a shadow angle free choice and a hard edge option. Calendar Creator now has holiday highlighting. Enter your favorite birthdays! Many of my plugins utilize tabs for making the UI much smaller than before. For example, Text Fun Factory separates the UI into basic functions: The Photo > Level Horizon effect utilizes 2 tabs, one for marking the horizon and one for finalizing your image: Some old favorites have been rewritten for GPU acceleration: Enjoy! Also, for you luddites that refuse to use the installer, here's a zip file with all the DLL's in it: BoltBaitPack611DLLs.zip How to install Paint.NET plugins. NO SHAPES FOR YOU! How about giving this post an up vote ♥️?

Hey Everyone, I made this Paint.net plugin for saving and loading *.ico files. All source code is released along with a first release. https://github.com/KyleTTucker/Paint.net-Icon-Creator/releases/tag/IconCreator1.0 Happy designing! Cheers, Kyle

Thanks for releasing the plugin. Unfortunately, it is not a replacement for an existing plugin. When opening an icon with different sizes, it loads only a small size, and the old plugin offers a selection of images, incl. separated by layers. YandexICO.zip

I forced the dialog to the foreground when shown - they were being lost in the background even though they were modal. Added this code to Shown Events: this.TopMost = true; this.Focus(); this.BringToFront(); Sorry missed that. Try this v4.0.1 IcoCur.zip