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Yeah these plugins are free. Pyrochild just gives you the option to donate if you want to.

Try http://new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/.

If that's the effect you're after you might want to look at the Sparkles plugin. It can be found in MadJik's plugin pack (which EER linked to above) or that this URL here: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?showtopic=9293

Is this a consistent error that happens everytime you open Paint.NET or is it happening with just one or two files? If it's the latter than the file may just be corrupt or an unsupported image type.

To create a new Surface try doing this instead: Surface temp = new Surface(src.Width, src.Height, SurfaceCreationFlags.Default); I can't quite explain why it works, but it gets the job done.

I don't know if you've seen this yet, but here's a tutorial on how to fake a blur/dodge tool in Paint.NET. http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/12195-faking-soft-brushes-and-the-blurdodgeburn-tool/

You can't stack controls horizontally like that in CodeLab. CodeLab uses a UI system called IndirectUI that Rick wrote to simplify UI design. Although IndirectUI makes UI design easier, it also imposes some limits on control placement. If you want to move the controls around at will, you would have to switch over to an IDE, such as Visual Studio or SharpDevelop, and learn to use WinForms.

Here is a tutorial for cutting out images in Paint.NET: http://www.isimonbro...ing-out-images/ It is a relatively easy procedure, but you may have trouble working around thin, wispy hair.

You're going to want the Wet Floor Reflection plugin for that. Just put your text on a separate layer and run the plugin.

Have you seen the Palette From Image plugin. It looks like it could be useful for your purposes.

If the sources aren't converting properly, make sure you're reading the extracted files and not the ones still in the .zip.

This repros for me. However while testing this out I noticed that works on most most colors except for: Black (0, 0, 0) White (255, 255, 255) Red (255, 0, 0) Green (0, 255, 0) Blue (0, 0, 255) Yellow (255, 255, 0) Cyan (0, 255, 255) Magenta (255, 0, 255) It seems that if all the sliders are set to 0 or 255 then the rounding error or whatever is causing this problem doesn't seem to take place.

Emboss is one of Paint.NET's built-in effects.

That's just a limitation of CodeLab. It is trying to use a DLL that isn't referenced. If you want to create a new Surface try this: Surface s = new Surface(width, height, SurfaceCreationFlags.Default);