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[Ego Eram Reputo]

Alphabetical List of Plugins 0-9 & A-C
revision date: 1 May 2013

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1px Expansion - dpy. Expands areas of color by one pixel. dpy's Pack
2D-ImageFilter Library - Hawkynt. Library of algorithms used in various emulators (VirtualGB, Mame, DOSBox, SNES9x, ZSNES, etc,). Also known as Pixel Art Scaling Plugin.
3D Heightmap v1.0 - Spikehead777. Two plugins which take current image as a height map & shines a light on it, returning the intensity of reflected rays as another image (similar to Emboss).
3D Object (BETA) - evanolds. Wrap the canvas around a box, torus or topographical graph (with custom equation). Preview is used to drag and rotate shape. (Part of Evan's Effects.
AA's Assistant - dpy. Used to soften the edges of an object in order to blend it with a background. Object must be surrounded by transparent pixels to find the edges.
Add Depth - maccas. Two plugins which add (the appearance of) depth to a 2D shape on a transparent layer. Add Depth adds an apparent thickness by adding a 'trail'. Offset Shadow is a displacement plugin for moving a shadow after it's been created.
Add Noise + - MadJik. Adds digital 'noise' to a selection. Included in the native 'Add Noise' effect. Note: forum thread no longer exists.
Add/Remove/Recover Watermark - Evan Wallace. Removed by author due to possible copyright abuses. Note: forum thread no longer exists.
Advanced Color Replacement - silverhammer. Recolors every pixel a different amount based on how similar it is to the secondary color. Also known as Advanced Recoloring.
Advanced Greyscale - Illnab1024. Desaturates an image to grayscale. RGB channel bias is individually configurable. Found in Illnab1024's Plugins
Advanced Rotate - sradforth. Rotate an image or selection from the center with options on how the devoid pixels will be treated (clamp, wrap, mirror, Primary Color, Secondary color, untouched). Included in Stu's Effects.
Ahmed's Plugins - AhmedElyamani. Effects: Apply Color, Cartoonize, Color Switch, Clarifaction+, InkSketch+, Posterize+, Quick Gravity & Vibration
Alias - Mike Ryan. Removes antialiasing. Useful prior to feathering. Part of Mike Ryan's Plugins
Align Object - moc426. Align an object on a transparent layer to the corners, sides or center of the layer or selection. A newer version with it's own submenu is available as part of KrisVDM's Plugin Pack
Alpha 32-bit Bitmap - FremyCompany. Allows you to open and save file in 32-bit bitmap. You must rename the file to *.bmpx (to avoid conflict with the existing PDN's BMP handler). If you try to open non-BMP files, you should receive an error (24bpp bitmaps are loaded correctly)
Alpha Blur v2 - Tanel. Updated version of Alpha Blur, this effect performs a Gaussian blur on alpha channel (transparency). Useful for fading / blending irregular shapes. V2 has enhanced performance & option to shift blur. Part of Tanel's Photo and Color Plugins
Alpha Contrast - sradforth. Blur or sharpen the Alpha channel. Included in Stu's Effects.
Alpha map - Boude. Convert color to transparency & vice versa.
Alpha Mask - Illnab1024. Turn an image into an alpha mask. If the image has color, it is converted to greyscale. Updated to add clipboard functionality. Found in Illnab1024's Plugins
Alpha Mask Import (1.2) - Illnab1024. Turn an image into an alpha mask. If the image has color, it is converted to greyscale. Updated to add clipboard functionality. Find a new version in Illnab1024's Plugins
Alpha to 0 - dpy. Set the alpha channel to zero (transparent). dpy's Pack
Alpha to 255 - dpy. Set the alpha channel to 255 (opaque). dpy's Pack
Alpha to Dots - davidf. Resets alpha values in the image to 0 or 255, based on the original alpha value. The result is a 'dotty' transition instead of a blended one (imagine old newpaper images)
Alpha Transform 1.1 - DW-dev. Pixels below the lower limit get alpha set to 0 (fully transparent). Pixels above the upper limit get alpha set to 255 (fully opaque). Pixels in between get alpha between 0 and 255 depending on their brightness.
Alpha Transform v1.0 - DW.dev. Superseded by a later release: Alpha Transform 1.1
AlphaMask Brush v1.7 - Simon Brown. Draw an alpha mask directly onto an image. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
AlphaSpace - MaR-V-iN. Converts a white/black background into transparency. Recognizes shadows and makes them semi-transparent.
Alpha-Threshold - Red ochre. Allows manipulation of transparency (Alpha) in a layer which already has a range of alpha values. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Anaglyphs - Itso. Creations of anaglyphs (3D stereo pictures).
Animated Image 1.7 - Simon Brown. Open and save animated GIFs & PNGs, one frame into each layer. Simon Brown's Plugin Pack.
Animation Helper v0.81 - recursor. Allows you to view any sequence of animations within a sprite sheet.
Another Raw File Loader - Telesto. Support for loading RAW files. No longer supported or available for download.
Anti-alias v1.5 - jsonchiu. Use to smooth edges, keeping them clear, not blurred.
Apply Color - AhmedElyamani. Apply a filter to recolor or tint an image. Part of Ahmed's Plugin Pack
Apply Texture - niwax. Applies a texture to any selected object, saving the brightness.
Arrow - BoltBait. Effect is now included in Paint.NET from version 3.07+
ASCII Art - Simon Brown. Obsolete, use: Another ASCII Art File Type Plugin.
ASCII Art File Type Plugin - I Like Pi. ASCII art generator. Transform your image into an ascii art masterpiece!
Asmageddon Tools Pack v3 - Asmageddon Prince. Numerous color & distort effects: Asmageddon_Alpha works, Asmageddon_Channel multiplier, Asmageddon_Channel_Shift, Asmageddon_Channel_Works_Plus, Asmageddon_Color_Percentage_Plus, Asmageddon_From P to S Grey, Asmageddon_From P to S, Asmageddon_HSV inversion, Asmageddon_Hue Channeling multiply, Asmageddon_Hue Red Psychodelic, Asmageddon_Image coder, Asmageddon_Inverto_pushing, Asmageddon_Inverto_pushing_Caleidoscope, Asmageddon_Inverto_pushing_plus, Asmageddon_Multiplo uniqua, Asmageddon_PS Mega, Asmageddon_PS Only, Asmageddon_Pseudo water, Asmageddon_Quadro disorter B, Asmageddon_Quadro disorter, Asmageddon_Render-Border, Asmageddon_Render-Quadro bumperoo, Asmageddon_Render-Quadro inverto, Asmageddon_Render-Quadro sharper, Asmageddon_RGB tricks, Asmageddon_Strange Bulger B, Asmageddon_Strange Bulger, Asmageddon_Strange_Bulger Kaleidoscope.
Asmageddon_Alpha works - Asmageddon Prince. Enhance or reduce Alpha channel. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Channel multiplier - Asmageddon Prince. Enhance colorization by multiplying the RGB color channels by a factor of up to 20. Multiplication is quirky to say the least. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Channel_Shift - Asmageddon Prince. Selectively move an RGB, Alpha or All color channel a nuber of pixels in X or Y directions. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Channel_Works_Plus - Asmageddon Prince. Enhance or reduce the color information in an RGB, Alpha or combined RGB color channel. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Color_Percentage_Plus - Asmageddon Prince. Alter the R, G or B color channels by percentage. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_From P to S - Asmageddon Prince. Assumed to shift the specified color channel(s) in some way between Primary and Secondary colors. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_From P to S Grey - Asmageddon Prince. Assumed to shift the specified color channel(s) in some way between Primary and Secondary colors. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_HSV inversion - Asmageddon Prince. Think three checkboxes to invert the Hues, Saturation and Value. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Hue Channeling multiply - Asmageddon Prince. Red, Green & Blue channel multiplier. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Hue Red Psychodelic - Asmageddon Prince. Change the Red in an image to another Hue. Red channel only. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Image coder - Asmageddon Prince. Turn an image into heavily distorted pattern. No decoder or author provided description of algorithm. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Inverto_pushing - Asmageddon Prince. Basic image warping by 'pushing' the image from its center toward one of the corners. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Inverto_pushing_Caleidoscope - Asmageddon Prince. Similar to Asmageddon_Inverto_pushing with the addition of kaleidoscopic duplicates. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Inverto_pushing_plus - Asmageddon Prince. As for Asmageddon_Inverto_pushing with the additional option to tile the image across the canvas. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Multiplo uniqua - Asmageddon Prince. Apparently another channel multiplier. Author: 'makes strange colors?'. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_PS Mega - Asmageddon Prince. A previous version of From P to S. Yields some interesting greyscale results. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_PS Only - Asmageddon Prince. Recolors image to Primary and Secondary colors (only). Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Pseudo water - Asmageddon Prince. Distorts an image with a watery waveform. Effect is very powerful. Menu title is simply 'Water'. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Quadro disorter - Asmageddon Prince. Breaks image into sharp pieces and scatters them. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Quadro disorter B - Asmageddon Prince. Breaks image into sharp pieces and scatters them. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Render-Border - Asmageddon Prince. Renders a strange Primary colored border not unlike a raindrop covered window. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Render-Quadro bumperoo - Asmageddon Prince. Greyscale distortion/patterning effect. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Render-Quadro inverto - Asmageddon Prince. More greyscale distortion/patterning effects. Reminiscent of Sierpinksi triangles. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Render-Quadro sharper - Asmageddon Prince. Still more greyscale distortion/patterning effects. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_RGB tricks - Asmageddon Prince. Mirror or invert the RGB channels. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Strange Bulger - Asmageddon Prince. Effect generates an error. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Strange Bulger B - Asmageddon Prince. Effect generates an error. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon_Strange_Bulger Kaleidoscope - Asmageddon Prince. Tiles image with mirroring in horisontal and vertical axes. Somewhat settings are similar to Polar Inversion type trnasformations. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
AutoChroma - MadJik. Generates fill or unfilled circles. Has preview issues. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Autochrome Noise - MadJik. Autochrome is a technique to recolor photos using colored grain or noise. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Average Blur - KrisVDM. Blur which averages all pixels within a certain radius. Each pixel counts as much as any other. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
Average Color (HSL) - Neil Cassidy. Averages the color of a selection with regard to human perception of color.
Average Color of Selection - MJW. Averages the color over a selection.
Average Edge Blur - Cookies. Edge blur. Samples colors at the edge of an 8-way circle and returns the average.
AVI Frame Importer: AVIImport - Simon Brown. Allows Paint.NET to open an AVI (movie) file and choose which frame to open as an image. Files should be supported by the Windows AVI library. NB not all video files will work.
Barcode Plugin - eladkarako. Recompiled version of the original Barcode plugin. This generate barcodes from user input. Supports Code 39, Code 39 Mod 43, Full ascii code 39 and Postnet.
Barcode Plugin - Sepcot. Generate barcodes from user input. Original has been recompiled by eladkarako find it here Barcode Plugin (recompiled). This version is therefore flagged as depreciated.
Bars - MadJik. Generate colored bars from a border of the image with a random length. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Basic Antialias v1.1 - pyjo. Reduces aliasing of an object which borders transparent pixels without altering the sharpness of the edge. No configurable options hence no dialog appears when the effect is run.
Basic morphologic operations - PhilipLB. Performs basic morphologic operations: dilate and erode. Dilatation is a simple way to remove scratches and noise from a uniform background. Erode is similar to the Median Blur effect.
Basic Photo Adjustments v2.0 - Tanel. Color and tone enhancement tools (levels, curves) in a simple intuitive package. Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Batch Processor - PROTOTYPE - jxp. Removed by Rick Brewster. Prototype batch processor. Forum thread no longer exists.
Benchmark Utility (PdnBench) - Rick Brewster. Superseded by a later release. Forum thread no longer exists.

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*NEW* Bevel Object - Red ochre. Apply different shaped bevels to an object, with either parallel or perspective lighting at a full range of angles. Bevels types: convex round, inset convex, convel bevel, convex chamfer, double convex, convex linear-flat, convex flat-linear, concave round, inset concave, flat.

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Bevel Plugin v1.4 - jsonchiu. Applies a beveled edge to an image. Thread contains another (later) version which bevels irregular shapes.
Bevel Selection - BoltBait. Adds a bevelled effect to the edges of a selection with contrasting highlight and shadowing colors faking a lighting effect. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
Bidirectional Blur - Tanel. This blur is a gaussian blur with the ability to separately modify the horizontal and vertical direction. Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Bilateral Filter - smax. Edge preserving noise reduction and blur. Crashes Paint.NET. Requires user to run MSI installer which installs the effect and creates a sub-folder /ru to house resources (Bilateral.resources.dll and Bilateral.resources.dll.VisualState.xml).
Bizarro-Negation v1.0 - Xhin. Creates abstract art using a technique which effectively duplicates the layer, flips it horizontally and vertically, then sets it to negation.
Black and Alpha+ - dpy. Changes an image into black and white , and changes brightness into transparency. dpy's Pack
Black and White Converter - Tanel. Convert image to black and white (greyscale), with many options for setting white/black level, tone & contrast, color & tint. Tanel's Plugin Pack.
BlendModes Plus v1.3 - APShredder. Apply a host of new blend modes: Normal, Average, Blue, Color, Cyan, Divide, Exclusion, Grain Extract, Grain Merge, Green, Hard Light, Hard Mix, Hue, Linear Burn, Linear Dodge, Linear Light, Luminosity, Magenta, Maximum, Minimum, Phoenix, Pin Light, Red.
BLP Converter Plugin - Evan Wallace. File support for loading Blizzard Picture files (*.blp). Requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package.
Blue/Green Screen Remover - Bleek II. Remove green screen / blue screen (background) from an image. Note: semi-broken
Blur Map - Curtis. Blur the image by the value taken from the map image. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
Blur Selection Edge - BoltBait. Blurs the edge of a selection. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait's Pack - BoltBait. Effects: Color Balance, Transparency, Flip (Horizontal or Vertical), Dream, Pastel, Gaussian Blur Plus, Feather, OldFeather, Outline, Paste Alpha, Switch Alpha to Gray, Switch Gray to Alpha, Combined Adjustments, Sharpen Landscape, Polygon/Stars, Flames, Bevel Selection, Blur Selection edge, Feather selection, Outline Selection.
Border / Stroke Effect - moc426. Draw a border around image or selection with your primary color.
Borders N' Shapes v1.6 - pyrochild. Draws a variety of borders and shapes. Pyrochild's Plugins
Bricks - jchunn. Creates brick patterns with mortar. Jesse Chunn Plugin Pack.
Brightness/ Darkness to Alpha - Mike Ryan. Turns Brightness (or Darkness) into pure transparent goodness! Can be found in Mike Ryan's Plugins. Topic is locked by request: use Color to Alpha.
Bullet - Simon Brown. No longer supported: renders bullet holes in your image.
Buttons - MadJik. Create beautiful colored buttons with or without text & symbols. Now with border width & text AA. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Camera lens distortion correction - kbarni. Correct the barrel or pincushion distortions in digital photos. AKA Lens Distortion
CannedBrush 1.5 - Simon Brown. Automates the process of creating repeat brush strokes for Custom Brushes plugin. Removed by author.
Cartoonize - AhmedElyamani. Applies dithering to simplify color differences and turn photos into cartoons. Part of Ahmed's Plugin Pack
Cell Texture - davidf. Produces a myriad of neighboring 'cells'. Hugely configurable.
CellMaker - Ego Eram Reputo. Renders x,y sized cells whose edges are entirely within a given selection. Use CellMaker Rev, the improved version.
CellMaker Rev - zoonel. Improved Cellmaker plugin with more options.
Channel Mask - Curtis. Similar to Alpha Mask but has more control over which channels to apply the mask to, and which channels to create the mask from. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
Channel Mixer Greyscale - Illnab1024. Mix the Red, Green, and Blue channels separately as you convert an image to greyscale. Also known as Advanced Greyscale. Illnab1024's Plugins.
Channels v2.0 - Simon Brown. Modify colors by channel (Red, Green Blue & Alpha). Formerly InvertColours+. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Chart White Balance - yvdh. Adjust the white balance of a picture based on the white and black patch a standard color chart in the scene.
Checkboard - Simon Brown. Draws a checkboard similar to the one used by Paint.NET to show transparency.
ChessFEN - Ego Eram Reputo. Draws chessboard and position from scratch or by parsing a FEN string. Requires the Chess Merida font be installed.
Chroma Key (Green) - tarheit. For removing the green background from an image. Updated to include Blue.
Circle Text - dpy. Writes text into a circle, or on an angle. dpy's Pack
Clarifaction+ - AhmedElyamani. Enhance detail in a photograph by adjusting the detail and saturation. Part of Ahmed's Plugin Pack
Clipwarp - Red ochre. Deforms a clipboard image 'around' an object. Useful for creating glass and metallic effects.
Clouds Plugin - Sepcot. Creates cloud like effects using the Perlin Noise routine.
CodeLab v1.8 - Tom Jackson. Internal Paint.NET tool for creating your own plugins. Code & apply your own effects on the fly. Updated and maintained by BoltBait.
Color Aberration - MadJik. Allows you to move separately RGB channels in % or in pixels. It could be a used to create 3D pictures. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Color Accent - KrisVDM. Retint an image towards greyscale using the specified hue to control the recoloring. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
Color Balance - BoltBait. Easy color correcting or tinting effect.
Color Balance MIX - DeathStar. Add more color or darken/lighten the image.
Color Balance+ - dpy. Enhanced color balance with Highlight, Shadow & Mid Tonal adjustments. dpy's Pack
Color Channel Mixer - SeriousSam. RGBA channel mixer with addition and scaling.
Color Count - stuff_gnome. Counts the number of colors (or number of times a color is used) in an image.
Color Dimmer - Xhin. Dims the individual RGB channels.
Color Filter - Ed Harvey. Apply a colored filter with options to configure Hue, Density and Preserve Highlights. Part of Ed Harvey Effects v3.5
Color Flip/Rotate - Ed Harvey. Quickly apply a color change to the image by clicking on one of many recolored thumbnails. Also known as Color Channel Flip/Rotate. Part of Ed Harvey Effects v3.5
Color inpainting v1.0 - zarathoustra. Colors gray areas in a picture where colors are only known in few parts of the picture.
Color Match v1.0 - pyrochild. Uses an existing image as a color template to recolor your image. Works best on photos. Pyrochild's Plugins
Color Mixer v1.2 - Tanel. Make fine color adjustments with values for Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Magenta & Base. Selectively apply to shadows, midtones or highlights. Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Color Modulo - MadJik. Creates a highly colored and configurable banded multiple gradient. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Color Replace - jchunn. Color filter with the ability to fine tune the color and alpha channels.
Color Stretch - rwp80. Color Stretch v1.0 stretch color values of pixels within specified threshold limits. Part of Color Target Plugin Pack
Color Target - rwp80. Color Target v1.3 retains pixels of a similar color and brightness, all other pixels are made transparent. Part of Color Target Plugin Pack
Color Target Plugin Pack - rwp80. Effects: Color Target, Color Stretch & Target Panel
Color Tint - Ed Harvey. Apply a color tint to the image. Options: Hue & Tint amount. Part of Ed Harvey Effects v3.5
Color to Alpha Advanced (PR1) - Mike Ryan. Adjust the alpha level of your selected color while similar colors are adjusted as well. Has known bugs. Alternative: Tanel's Color to Alpha
Color to Alpha v2.2 - Tanel. Extracts a color range from image, by leaving pixels of selected color opaque and making the rest transparent. Only alpha values are altered, color remains intact. Part of Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Color Trimming - Mike Ryan. Used for color correction in photographs when too much of a particular color is present. Removes a defined range of a particular color allowing for more vibrant colors to be displayed. Part of Mike Ryan's Plugins
Color Zoom Blur - MadJik. Based on the zoom blur effect, but you are able to handle the color channels separately. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Colour Chop - n d. Similar to other colour cutting effects, but this creates a smoother transition from transparent <-> opaque
Colour Distort - Anaco. Subtracts the red blue green by x+y or x-y or x*y depending on the option you select and then divides it by the amount you specified.
Colourblind Simulation - n d. Ensure your image is legible for colour blind.
Combined Photo Adjustments - BoltBait. Combines a number of photo adjustments (like Noise Reduction, Brightness/Contrast, Hue, Saturation) within one handy to use effect.
Composition tool - Red ochre. Tool to help with cropping/rotating of photos (i.e. composition grids to help line up important features). Also has configurable aspect ratio with a range of preset sizes. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Conditional Effects - Cookies. Gives you the ability to run 6 effects, in the order, and only affect the colors matching the set conditions.
Conditional Hue/Saturation - evanolds. Adjust hue and saturation by setting range and conditions. Evan's Effects v1.1.
ConditionalPen 1.1 - Simon Brown. Provides a brush that will only function when a pixel is within the given min/max threshold. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Contour - Red ochre. Splits an image into bands based on the tone value, with a variety of colouring options. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Convolution Effect - SeriousSam. Modifies each pixel by comparison to neighboring pixels. 3x3 matrix is fully configurable.
Create Image-Map - Simon Brown. Provides an interface for constructing an HTML image map. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Cross-Processing - Ed Harvey. Classic film effect; Increased contrast, weird color shifts & tints. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Curly Lines - davidf. Render all kinds of curly (and straight) lines. Intimidating UI is well explained in companion PDF.
Curtis' Plugin Pack - Curtis. Effects: Tile image, Jumble, Selective palette, Equations, Effects Lab, Fern Fractal, Channel Mask, Displacement Map, Blur Map, Dots, Rounded Rectangle. To install, extract and place all three DLL files in your Paint.Net/Effects/ folder.
Curves+ v2.10 - pyrochild. A more powerful version of the Curves adjustment that comes with Paint.NET. Pyrochild's Plugins
Custom Brushes 5.1.5 - Simon Brown. Obsolete. Use CustomBrushesMini.
CustomBrushesMini 1.0 RC3 - Simon Brown. Superseded. Use CustomBrushesMini.
CustomBrushesMini v1.0 - Simon Brown. Draw with customized brushes. Replaces previous incarnations of Custom Brushes. Simon Brown's Plugin Pack.
CustomFrame 1.5 - Simon Brown. Add a pre-created frame to your image.
CustomTexture v1.0 - Simon Brown. Apply a custom texture to an image while maintaining the saturation. Simon Brown's Plugin Pack.
Cut Color - xmario. Cuts one color & shades of it from your image. Choose color to leave & pixels of a different color are changed to transparent (or black and white).
Cutout Effect - Illnab1024. Broken. Use the newer version in Illnab1024's Plugins.
Cutout Effect - Illnab1024. Broken. Part of Illnab1024's Plugins
Cyanotype - KrisVDM. Recolor an image to white + cyan. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.

 

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[Ego Eram Reputo]

Alphabetical List of Plugins D-I
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DDS File Support - Dean Ashton. Enables DDS file loading & saving. Included Paint.NET 3.1+. Forum thread no loner exists.
Desktop Background Preview - Simon Brown. Allows you to preview potential images as a desktop wallpaper. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Detect plugin problems v1.0 - Simon Brown. External program which diagnoses why effect and filetype plugins may not be working.
Diagonal Lines v2.0 - jsonchiu. Renders diagonal lines, frequency, brush width, antialias level & angle are all configurable. DLL compiled by EER (21 Feb 2013) from posted source as download link has died.
Displacement - MadJik. Displace an image in X and Y directions. Has rendering issues. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Displacement and Alpha Mask - Bleek II. Distorts an image based on the light values of the mask.
Displacement Map - Curtis. Pixels are offset by the amount determined by the map channel and the displacement slider, and are offset in the direction of the angle chooser. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
Dissolve 1.3 - APShredder. Dissolves one image onto another.
Distorting Mirror - MadJik. Effect similar to the distorting mirror you find at a fairground. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Distortion Effects (4 effects) - Rick Brewster. The effects Bulge, Polar Inversion, Tile Reflection & Twist are now included Paint.NET as of version 2.70+
Dither - Atkinson Halftone - Ed Harvey. This effect DOES NOT work correctly if you have any selection active. It should ONLY be used on whole layers. Part of Ed's Egregious Effects
Dither - Floyd-Steinberg Halftone - Ed Harvey. This effect DOES NOT work correctly if you have any selection active. It should ONLY be used on whole layers. Part of Ed's Egregious Effects
Donut Distortion - MadJik. Distort the area between two concentric circles. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Dot Plugin - davidf. Reduce an image to monochrome comprised of dark dots on a light background.
Dots - Curtis. Turn image into a grid of dots. Options to adjust the size and highlighting. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
dpy's Pack - dpy. Effects: Black and Alpha+, Color Balance+, Multi-Threshold, Rotate_Zoom+, Perspective Effect, AA's Assistant, Metallize, Text+, Circle Text, Rotate Text, Spiral Text & Wave Text, Speech Bubble, 1px Expansion, Alpha to 0, Alpha to 255
DragFrom - Simon Brown. Lets you upload images using drag and drop. Requires a capable browser such as Firefox and site such as Imgur or min.us.
Dream - BoltBait. Adds a 'dreamy' or softening filter to the image. BoltBait's Plugin Pack
Drop Ripple - Ed Harvey. Mimic top-down view of water ripples as if an object was dropped into a still pool of water. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Drop Shadow - KrisVDM. Superseded by a later release Drop Shadow & Effects.
Drop Shadow - KrisVDM. Creates a highly configurable shadow around an object. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
Dull - StormWare. Dulls an image. Ranges from 0 (full color) to 170 (completely Grayscale).
Duotone Ink on Paper - KrisVDM. Tint an image to black and a combination of with two selected hues. Does not change white areas. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
Duotone Light - KrisVDM. Tint an image to black and a combination of with two selected hues. Does not change partially transparent areas. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
EA FSH Filetype - null54. Loads and saves the FSH format used by Electronic Arts games.
Earths and Greys - Red ochre. Simplifies an image based on tonal value and recolours it with a choice of palettes. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
EasyWatermark - Simon Brown. Superseded by new release, use PDNWatermark.
Ed Harvey Effects - Ed Harvey. Superseded by a later release
Ed Harvey Effects (v3.30 Beta 1) - Ed Harvey. Superseded by a later release
Ed Harvey Effects (v3.30) - Ed Harvey. Superseded by a later release
Ed Harvey Effects Archive - Ed Harvey. Some of the effects in the Ed Harvey Effects package have been incorporated in Paint.NET. However, in some instances the built-in versions have a simpler interface or less features. The original effects will be archived here for anyone who really needs th
Ed Harvey Effects v 3.5 - Ed Harvey. The latest version of the Ed Harvey Effects package. Effects: Simplify, Splinter, True Blur, Color Filter, Color Channel Flip/Rotate, Color Tint, Extract Channel, Filtered Black and White, Invert Intensity, Single Hue, Solarize, Threshold, Vitrious, White Balance, Drop Ripple, Glass Blocks, InsideOut, Lens, MultiView, Pixelate (Hexagonal), Pixelate (Cairo Pentagonal), Ripple, Wobble, Cross-Processing, Vignette, Lattice, Weave, Halftone, Seismograph, Soft Saturation.
Ed Harvey Effects v3.36 - Ed Harvey. Superseded by a later release
Ed Harvey's FastFx - Ed Harvey. These are replacements for existing paint.net effects that have been optimized for speed (Fast Blur, Pencil Sketch, Glow, Soften Portrait & Hue / Saturation).
Edgemaster - n d. Edge detection effect.
EdHarvey Effects - Ed Harvey. Superseded by new version
Editable Text v1.0 - Simon Brown. Note: Beta. Alternative text-tool that includes editable text. Works by using Steganography to store the details of the text in the text layer. Formerly: Re-Editable Text (BETA). Simon Brown's Plugin Pack.
Ed's Egregious Effects - Ed Harvey. These effects DO NOT work correctly if you have any selection active. They should ONLY be used on whole layers. Effects: Fast Blur, Dither - Floyd-Steinberg Halftone, Dither - Atkinson HalfTone.
Effects Lab - Curtis. Run another effect through a filter. Useful search box helps find effects by name. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
Egalize - PhilipLB. Egalize modifies the colors, so they are used in the same amount.
Eigen Blur v1.3 - Neil Cassidy. Improved Gaussian blur effect which uses brand new convolution code.
Engrave / Emboss - Toli. Emboss/Engrave effect with configurable strength. Toli's Effects.
Enhance Details - BoltBait. Kind of a reverse of BoltBait's 'Soften Portrait' effect. This effect reintroduces edges, grain & noise type artifacts to enhance photographic details.
Enormators Effects - Enormator. The two effects are Stretch & DotAtCenter. Unavailable for download.
Equations - Curtis. Type in a mathematical equation and have it rendered to the canvas. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
Erode / Dilate filter - dake. Dilatation is a simple way to remove scratches and noise from a uniform background. Erode is similar to the Median Blur effect.
Evan's Effects v1.1 - evanolds. Effects: Mirror over line, Conditional Hue/Saturation, Quadrilateral Reshape, Polygonal Transparency, 3D Object (BETA), Pie Chart,
Extend Border v1.3 - Simon Brown. Extends the edge of a layer inwards the amount specified.
Extract Channel - Ed Harvey. Allows the isolation of a single RGB, HSV or CMYK color channel (plus many more). Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Extract Color v1.0 - APShredder. Allows user to change an image to grayscale, while keeping a certain color range in color (automates the Pleasantville Effect).
Eyeshine (animal red-eye) removal - Tanel. This plugin removes animal eye glow from photos caused by direct flash. Part of Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Fade Edge - KrisVDM. Fades the edge towards transparent. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
Fast Blur - Ed Harvey. This blur is based on Gaussian blur and is 10 to 200 times faster (depending on radius). Found in Ed Harvey's FastFx plugin pack.
Fast Blur - Ed Harvey. This effect DOES NOT work correctly if you have any selection active. It should ONLY be used on whole layers. Part of Ed's Egregious Effects
Feather Plugin - BoltBait. Softens the edges of objects that you are combining to make composite pictures. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
Feather Plugin - Old Version - BoltBait. Softens the edges of objects that you are combining to make composite pictures. A newer version exists (see Feather Plugin. Included as part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
Feather Selection - BoltBait. Fades out the edge os a selection in order to blend it more effectively with the background. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
Fern Fractal - Curtis. Renders a fern onto your canvas. Options include colour, angle, position, width, height & density. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
FileType TP4 - Prillan. File support for *.TP4 files as used by the game RollerCoaster Tycoon.
Fill from Clipboard - YellowAfterlife. Fills the layer (or selection) with tiled texture from the clipboard.
Fill Gaps v1.0 - HiPhiSch. Fill transparent sections of a layer or selection based on the surrounding pixels.
Film Noir Plugin - Simon Brown. Give your pictures a Film Noir style by desaturating colors. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Film v2.0 - pyrochild. Filter an image to give it grain & intensity. Pyrochild's Plugins
Filtered Black and White - Ed Harvey. Convert an image to greyscale using a colored filter to dictate tonal changes. Filter density (strength) is configurable. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Find Edges - Simon Brown. Finds all edges in an image and convert the pixels black - the rest will be turned white. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Fire Effect - Tom Jackson. Render flames with this single-effect implementation of the fire effect. Should be used over a blurred black shape on white canvas.
Fire Plugin - Simon Brown. For rendering fire/flames. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Fire Plugin (aka Burninate) - BoltBait. Turn a black & white gradient into flames. BoltBait's Plugin Pack
Flags - Simon Brown. Select a flag & render it into the selection (needs a working internet connection). Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Flip - BoltBait. Flips the selected pixels horizontally or vertically. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack. This version replaces the version found in this thread: Flip.
Flip - Illnab1024. Flips the selected pixels horizontally or vertically. Replaced by a later version: BoltBait's Plugin Pack.
Flip Horizontal - MISIIM. Superseded by BoltBait's version: Flip. Forum topic no longer exists.
Floyd-Steinberg dithering - asura. Apply Floyd-Steinberg dithering. Links are broken therefore plugin is unavailable for download.
FlySwatter - ploogle. Applies filter to make image look shiny & metallic, or perhaps psychedelic.
Focal Point - jchunn. Blurs from a given focal point in an image. Jesse Chunn Plugin Pack.
Fractal Mandelbrot - moc426. Create, configure and color the Mandelbrot fractal. This effect is now Included in Paint.NET minus the colorization options (Effects > Render > Mandelbrot Fractal). This effect can be installed alongside the native version and found under Effects > Render > Fractal: Mandelbrot.
Fragment - Ed Harvey. Creates copies of the base image, each shifted from the original position by a given amount. The copies are then averaged together. Ed Harvey's Effects.
Frames - MadJik. Wrap your image in a customized frame. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Frosted Glass+ v1.5 - pyrochild. This effect is now included in Paint.NET from version 3.07+. Forum thread no longer exists.
Gabor filter v1.0 - zarathoustra. Applies an edge detector filter to the image, letting you choose the wavelength and the angle of edge detection.
Gaussian Blur+ - BoltBait. Enhanced Gaussian Blur which can be used to selectively blur an image by color or alpha channel. Previously known as Channel Blur.
GenTree - MadJik. Generates lifelike trees and branches. See also the TreeGen effect. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Glass Blocks - Ed Harvey. Distort an image as if were viewed from behind a wall of rounded glass blocks. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Glass Orb Generator - wizard. No longer functions with the latest release of Paint.net. The effect used to render glass spheres/orbs.
Glow - Ed Harvey. Similar to the built in Glow effect only up to 20 times faster. Found in Ed Harvey's FastFx plugin pack.
Glow effect - Rick Brewster. Apply a glow effect to a given selection. Included Paint.NET 2.70+
Google Image Search - Illnab1024. Allows you to use Google Image Search directly in Paint.NET. Appears to be broken in that no search results are returned.
GPU Channel Blur - Bruce Bowyer-Smyth. Hardware accelerated blur which perfoems a separate and unique gaussian blur for each color channel with each channel having it's own blur radius. Part of Hardware Accelerated Blur Pack
GPU Gaussian Blur - Bruce Bowyer-Smyth. Hardware accelerated Gaussian Blur. Part of Hardware Accelerated Blur Pack
GPU Motion Blur - Bruce Bowyer-Smyth. Hardware accelerated Motion Blur. Part of Hardware Accelerated Blur Pack
GPU Radial Blur - Bruce Bowyer-Smyth. Hardware accelerated Radial Blur. Part of Hardware Accelerated Blur Pack
GPU Zoom Blur - Bruce Bowyer-Smyth. Hardware accelerated Zoom Blur. Part of Hardware Accelerated Blur Pack
Gradient - KrisVDM. A four-color, non-linear 'Gradient' effect with high quality color dithering. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
Gradient Bars v3.0 - pyrochild. Creates bars of varying width, angle and thickness. Pyrochild's Plugins
Gradient Blocks - pyrochild. Transform an image into a pixellated version with gradient filled blocks. Pyrochild's Plugins
Gradient Blur - MadJik. A combination of the Gaussian blur & gradient effects. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Gradient Effect - pleska. Gradient fill between current primary and secondary colors in 5 basic types: Vertical, Horizontal, Radial (from center of rect out), Diagonal and Reverse-Diagonal.
Gradient Mapping v2.2 - pyrochild. Create a custom gradient and map it to your image based on any supported input channel. One of the primary uses is to create a multi-colored gradient. Pyrochild's Plugins
Gradient Plugin v2.0 - Illnab1024. Apply a variety of configurable gradients. Co-Authored by BoltBait.
Gradients Galore - Red ochre. Create a wide variety of gradient effects. Many options including choice of shapes, transition methods, variable dithering, angle slider (rotation around canvas centre), HSV rainbows. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Grain Noise (Film Grain) - Tanel. This effect generates film grain (or luminance grain). Use it to add some character to otherwise boring-smooth digital image. Part of Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Gralpha - Vermiculus. Converts grayscale to Alpha.
Graph Maker - dsplaisted. Uses (and builds on) the Grid Maker plugin to render graphs.
Gravity - MadJik. Treats pixels as if they were sand, dragging them down until they have supporting pixels under them. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Grayscale on Colored Paper - KrisVDM. Recolors the image greyscale and the specified color. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
Grayscale+ - StormWare. Instead of averaging RGB like normal Grayscale, Grayscale+ retains the greatest of the RGB values.
GREYCstoration Wrapper *BETA* - Crazy Man Dan. Replaced by the built-in Effects > Noise > Reduce Noise effect. Forum thread no longer exists.
Greyscale channel mixer - andersbursjoo. Converts images to greyscale with luminescence control. Download link is broken so plugin cannot be downloaded.
Grid Maker - MadJik. Draws grids, also checkerboard and dots. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Grid Maker v2.0 - Illnab1024. Superseded. Use MadJik's Gridmaker.
Grid Warp - pyrochild. Distort an image by overlaying a warping grid which has dragable intersection nodes. Pyrochild's Plugins
Gridlines - KrisVDM. Draws a grid with horizontal and vertical lines. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
Grim Color Reaper - Jotaf. Remove a color (i.e. background) from an image while maintaining the alpha information.
Halftone - Ed Harvey. Simulates continuous tones in the image through the use of dots of varying size, shape, spacing and density. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Hardware Accelerated Blur Pack - Bruce Bowyer-Smyth. Use your video card to process images with a potentially huge performance leap. The blurs in this pack are: Channel Blur, Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, Radial Blur & Zoom Blur.
HD Photo plugin - BETA - Rick Brewster. Support for HD imaging. No longer supported. See JPEG XR filetype plugin
Heightmap - Radobot. Transforms an image to a heightmap. Imagine shining a light on an uneven surface. Lightness of each pixel represents it's height.
Hexagonal Grid - MadJik. Creates a hexagonal grid. Includes brushwidth & Antialias controls. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Hide / Reveal Steganography - Radobot. Hide (and reveal) images within another image. Similar in concept to BoltBait's Steganography plugin with more options.
High Pass - Cookies. High pass filter - used to correct (sharpen) images in much the same way as Unsharp Mask
Highlight - Red ochre. Creates the twinkly highlights you find in a photo that is taken towards the sun, highlights on water or metallic text. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Homeworld2 ROT file import - susgeorgesu. Import Homeworld 2 ROT image files as used in the game 'Home World 2' by Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
Hue / Saturation - Ed Harvey. Similar to the built in Hue / Saturation effect and up to 50 times faster. Found in Ed Harvey's FastFx plugin pack.
Hue / Saturation+ - Tanel. Removed by the author following enhancements to the built-in Hue/Saturation adjustment (Paint.NET v 3.5.2)
Icon, Cursor, and Animated Cursor Format - evanolds. Support for Icon & cursor filetypes, including animated cursors.
IFF filetype - rmtew. Uses the SDLimage library to extend support to the IFF filetype.

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*NEW* IFF ILBM (Amiga) Loader - Zombieman. Loader for IFF ILBM images (native file format of the old Commodore Amiga computers). Supports loading HAM6 and HAM8 modes (and in theory HAM5 and HAM7 modes). Does not handle IFF24 images (max 8-bit images).

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Illnab1024's Plugins. (v1.1) - Illnab1024. Alpha Mask, Cutout Effect, Advanced Greyscale, Point Warp, Polar to Rect.
Im(age)PDF filetype - Martin Osieka. Allows Paint.NET to save images as PDF documents.
Image To Code (AKA Image To C) - ShayEr. Convert image to C/C++ data structure.
Increase Local Contrast - MichaelVinther. Improve badly lit photos or dramatize dull photos.
Ink Sketch - BoltBait. Converts image to inked sketch version. Included Paint.NET 3.10+
InkSketch+ - AhmedElyamani. Turns images into a black and white inked facsimile. Part of Ahmed's Plugin Pack
Input to Output - Mike Ryan. Adjust the value of one color channel (Input) by the value of another channel (Output). Useful for making alpha masks, removing color, etc.. Part of Mike Ryan's Plugins
InputToOutput+ - Xarx. Sets one image channel (RGBA) from another channel or from other basic pixel characteristic (CMYK component, HSV component, luminance, etc,)
Inside Out - Ed Harvey. Appears to be a cartesian to polar transformation (i.e. rectangular image is distorted to circular). Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
IntenColor - P13Darksight. Takes the intensity of the current pixel & performs mathematical operations on it to adjust the color.
Interlace - tunedude. Adds horizontal/vertical stripes of color/transparency to the image.
Invert Alpha - Mike Ryan. Inverts the Alpha Channel based off of your set tolerance. Part of Mike Ryan's Plugins
Invert Alpha - person_321. Deleted by Author as another plugin of this nature exists: use Invert Alpha.
Invert around primary color - Enormator. Invert colors around other colors.
Invert Channels - person_321. Invert the intensity of any of the RGB channels. Person_321's Texture & Color Plugins
Invert Intensity - Ed Harvey. Invert the intensity of the color range in an image. Part of Ed Harvey Effects v3.5
iPhone Tab Bar Icon Maker - sradforth. Helper for assisting with the creation of iphone icons. Also known as RGB Intensity to Alpha. Included in Stu's Effects.
Isolate Black / White - Mike Ryan. Generates a B&W copy of the layer then applies it as an alpha mask.
Isolate Lineart - silverhammer. Converts a B/W image (like a pencil drawing) to a 'black and transparent' image.

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Alphabetical List of Plugins J-R
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Jesse Chunn Plugin Pack - jchunn. Effects: Soften edges, Focal point, Stencil, Color Replace, Varicose, Bricks.
Jitter v3.0 - pyrochild. Jitters' each row of pixels by a random amount, giving a shimmy type effect. Pyrochild's Plugins
JPEG 2000 - Gumboot. Use JPEG 2000 instead.
JPEG 2000 - null54. Loads and saves JPEG 2000 images, superseding the old JPEG 2000 plugin.
JPEG Effect - Simon Brown. Distorts an image by running it through the JPEG codec. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
JPEG XR - Chrysler. Load and save JPEG XR (aka HD Photo) image files
Jumble - Curtis. Jumbles the image in horizontal and vertical elements. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
KaleidGen - MadJik. Generate kaleidoscopes from scratch using selectable auto generated shapes. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Kaleidoscope - MadJik. Turn images into kaleidoscopes. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Kaleidoscope Effect - pleabo. Generate kaleidoscopic effects. Has center point selector and a source angle rotator. Also known as DPL Kaleidoscope.
Kill Color v1.1 - HiPhiSch. Removes a color from the selected part of the image and tries to find a substitution for it by analyzing the surrounding parts.
Koch Snowflake Fractal - stuff_gnome. Renders the Koch fractal snowflake in configurable complexity, with brushwidth & antialias options.
KrisVDM's Plugin Pack - KrisVDM. Plugin pack contains installer and a DLL file. Run installer to selectively install effects in this pack. Effects: Drop Shadow, Duotone Light, Duotone Ink on Paper, Cyanotype, Sepia 2, Grayscale on Colored Paper, Monochrome Ink on Paper, Average Blur, Smart Blur, Color Accent, Fade Edge, Gradient, Gridlines, Object Align.
Landscape - BoltBait. Automates a number enhancements for landscape pictures. Also known as 'Sharpen Landscape'. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
Laplacian pyramid filter - MichaelVinther. Improve the overall illumination of photos, typically when the scene is in shadow. Can smooth or enhance details in a photo without smoothing edges.
Lattice - Ed Harvey. Transform the image to a doutone (Primary/Secondary) lattice. Effect is not unlike a embroidery pattern. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Layer Saver - I Like Pi. Standalone executable saves each layer in a Paint.NET file as a separate file.
LCD Subsampling resize - xrl. Resizes image horizontally at 50% while retaining sharpness.
Lens - Ed Harvey. Overlay a magnifying lens. Size of lens is not configurable, but magnification is. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Lens Flare - MadJik. Adds light induced flares to the bright spots in your image. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Lens Flare (aka CameraTrouserFlare) - sradforth. Adds sunlight induced lens flare effect to images. You've gotta love the name.
Light Rays - MadJik. Draws 'rays' of light from the center (can be offset). Uses alternated triangles as the rays. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Lightning - Cookies. Create lightning, smoke and other cool energy bolts.
Liquify - pyrochild. Similar to Photoshop's Liquify or GIMP's IWarp. Compatible with Photoshop's mesh files. Pyrochild's Plugins
Local Contrast Enhancement - Tanel. Clarify flat or hazy looking photos by selectively adjusting the contrast. Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Local Noise - davidf. Similar to the Frosted Glass effect, but with more configuration options (Radius, Strength, Coverage, Distance Bias, etc…,).
Lomography - BoltBait. Simulate the effects of a Lomo camera : high contrast, twisted colors and a noticeable vignette.
Low Color Filetype (bmp, gif, png) - jxp. Save images as 16 color bitmaps or gifs. Previously known as '16 Colors'.
MadJik' Plugin Pack (aka Magical Plugins Megapack) - MadJik. Over 60 effects: Color Zoom Blur, Gradient Blur, Color Aberation, Reverse Colors, Distorting Mirror, Donut Distortion, Gravity, Kaleidoscope, Magnifier, Motion Sharpen, Oblique, Page Curl, Panelling, Polar Transformation, Seamless Texture Maker, Sine Wave distort, Tiles Reflection XL, Tube Effect, TwistZ, Water Reflection, Waves, Wet Floor Reflection, Auto Chrome noise, Bars, Buttons, Frames, GenTree (TreeGen), Grid Maker, Hexagonal Grid, KaleidGen, Light Rays, Mazes (2), Randome Lines, Rosaces, Shapes, Sparkles, Spiral, SpiroGraph, SpiroShapes, Splashes, Volutes, Majority Color, Over Liner, Star Glow, Moire, Perlin Texture, Radial Colors, Rainbow Twist Colors, Autochrome, Color modulo, Displacement, Lens Flare, Matrice, Nebulous, NewtonFractal, Vibrato, XY Coords.
Magnifier (Lens+) - MadJik. An evolution of the Ed Harvey's Lens effect, with enhanced features & options. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Majority Color - MadJik. Each pixel takes the value of its neighbors that have the majority. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Make Colour Transparent - Simon Brown. Obsolete. Use Color to Alpha Advanced.
Make Transparent - GoldenCrystal. Make an image transparent in respect of the chosen color. In other words this is another color to alpha plugin.
Manual Color Correction - Gaeriel. Change colors by transforming one color into another. Similar to the 'Manual Color Correction' tool in Paint Shop Pro.
Matirce - MadJik. An emboss type effect with coloring options. Can be used to fake metalic sheen and edge detection. Magical Plugins Megapack.

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*NEW* Measure Selection - Martin Osieka. Take measurements of an active selection or the whole layer. Option include setting the unit, dpi and scale. Useful for mapping or technical drawings.

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Metallize - dpy. Applies a chrome or metallic sheen to an image. dpy's Pack
Mexican Hat Edge Detect - PhilipLB. A simple Mexican Hat edge detection filter.
Mike Ryan's Plugins - Mike Ryan. Effects: Alias, Color Trimming, Input to Output, Brightness/ Darkness to Alpha, Invert Alpha, Silhouette Plus.
Mirror / Rotate - Toli. Mirror selection horizontally, vertically, or over a diagonal. Rotate a selection. Toli's Effects. See also Mirror / Rotate Menu
Mirror / Rotate Menu - Toli. Mirror selection horizontally, vertically, or over a diagonal. Rotate a selection. This is the same effect as Mirror/Rotate but houses the effects in the Mirror submenu. Toli's Effects.
Mirror Over Line - evanolds. Mirror an image across a vertical or horizontal line. Part of Evan's Effects.
Moire - MadJik. This texture plugin replaces the selection (or the active layer if no selection) with colourful concentric rings. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Monochrome - hollander. Unsupported. Download links fail. Converts image to monochrome (black, white & color supported).
Monochrome Ink on Paper - KrisVDM. Recolors image a single specified hue. Transparent areas are left unchanged. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
Mosaic Effect - v1.0.0.0 - Tim!. Converts a drawing into a mosaic pattern, using the Secondary colour as the adhesive or grout between the tesserae. Tim's Effects.
Mosaic Maniac (Collage Paint) - MosaicManiac. Paint with whole collections of images! Creates a unique non repeatable pattern of images form a directory of images. Menu title is Collage Paint.
Motion Sharpen - MadJik. Directional sharpening. Think of it as the natural opposite of Motion Blur. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Multi Color Gradient - romein. Create a Linear, Radial, or Square multi-colored gradient with custom colors, direction and opacity.
Multi-Threshold - dpy. Run multiple 'threshold' filters at once. Excellent for turning a photo into Warhol inspired pop-art. dpy's Pack
MultiView Warp - Ed Harvey. Distorts an image into a multifaceted view. Similar to the Fragment Blur without the blurring, or Glass Blocks without the rounded edges. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Nebulous - MadJik. Creates a brightly colored rainbow halo which appears pinched up in the centre. Magical Plugins Megapack.
NewtonFractal - MadJik. Fractal generator. Creates colored flower-type petals infilled with colored noise. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Night Vision - pleabo. Transform a scene into a green filtered 'Night Vision' version.
Noise Reduction - ncoquard. Noise reduction plugin, written specifically to reduce the artifacts in JPG images.
Noisechoice - Red ochre. Add noise, with a range of choices including anti-aliasing to transparency. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Normal Map - stinger. Height field (gray scale) to normal map (creates a much better illusion of height).
Normal Map Renderer - eekysam. Renders normal maps. Has a cinematic light that which can be moved around the virtual 3D surface. Also has exponential drop-off/spread settings which can be used to modify sharpness, contrast, brightness, and angle effect (dialog is deceptively simple). Plugin is no longer being developed.
Normal Tools v1.1 - gOUJOSAMMA. Suite of three plugins for the creation of Normal Maps.
Normalize - PhilipLB. Normalize stretches the histogram (entire color range is used).
NormalMap 1.1 - harold. Incompatable with Paint.NET 3.5x, use NormalMapPlus v1.0.
NormalMapPlus v1.0 - Simon Brown. Updated version of NormalMap 1.1. Uses the Sobel Filter from AMD's Render Monkey's normal map example to calculate the first order derivatives of the image (think: emboss). Light angle is adjustable.
Object Align - KrisVDM. Realigns an object within a selection vertically, horizontally, left, right or centrally (and combinations). Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
Object Edges - Red ochre. Produces a range of outline/bevel effects on objects. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Object Reflections - Wet Floor Effect - BoltBait. Obsolete. Use MadJik's Wet Floor Reflection.
Object2color - Red ochre. Recolour opaque objects with anti-aliased edges on a transparent layer. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Oblique Effect - MadJik. Incline images vertically horizontally or both. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Octagonal/Quad reshape/matte - evanolds. Reshape the image or crop to an arbitrary quad or octagonal region. Part of Evan's Effects.
Olden 1.5 - Simon Brown. Applies and aged look to your image. Simon Brown's Plugin Pack.
OpenRaster Filetype - Zagna. Ora file support. Requires exe download/run to install.
Optimized JPEG - null54. Optimizes JPEG images using jpegtran. The Visual C++ 2010 SP1 runtime is required (x86 for a 32-bit OS, or x64 for a 64-bit OS). To install place both the exe and dll in Paint.NET's FileTypes folder.
OptiPNG - I Like Pi. Updated version is available, see OptiPNG Updated. Integrates OptiPNG with Paint.NET, optimizes PNGs to make them smaller (http://optipng.sourceforge.net/). To install place both the exe and dll in Paint.NET's FileTypes folder.
OptiPNG (Updated) - Mr X. Updated version of OptiPNG (fixes some security vulnerabilities). Functionality is same: compresses the PNG filetype when saving images. Both the OptiPngFileType.dll and optipng.exe need to be in the FileTypes directory.
OtherFarmColorReplacer - OtherFarm. Remove or change a color or a range of colors. Numerous options including color selection and transparency.
Outline - BoltBait. Puts an outline of the selected color around your object. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
Outline Object v2.6 - pyrochild. Place a border around object/area. Note: object must be surrounded by transparency. Pyrochild's Plugins
Outline Selection - Aziz. Outline the inside of a selection with a rectangular border. Use BoltBait's Outline Selection
Outline Selection - BoltBait. Outline the current selection with your choice of color and width. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
Overblur - Red ochre. Effect useful for making textures or as a passable sharpen effect. You can compare the blurred picture to the original and choose how much of that change to apply. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Overliner - MadJik. Scans the image to find breaks in the colors between pixels. If the break is from dark to light then the pixel is replaced with the light color (otherwise the dark color). Magical Plugins Megapack.
Page Curl - MadJik. Creates a curl on a corner of your image, just like a curling page. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Paint Shop Pro FileType - null54. Allows Paint.Net to load and save Jasc's Paint Shop Pro format.
Paint.NET Bulk Image Processor - Corillian. Batch processor. Removed by Paint.NET developer for failing to comply with plugin guidelines. Forum thread no longer exists.
Paint.NET Effect Installation Right-Click Menu Option - Simon Brown. Simplifies plugin installation by adding an 'install' option to right click menu on plugin ZIP file.
Paint.net Plugin Installer - Powerslave UK. Removed due to license issues. Forum thread no longer exists.
Paint.Net Plugin Manager - Braiden. Add or remove plugins from the Paint.NET/Effects folder.
Paint.NET Search for Firefox - Simon Brown. Obsolete. Use PDN OpenSearch Custom Toolbar.
Palette from image tool - jxp. Extracts the palette from the current image & saves it to (or creates) a paint.net palette file.
PaletteConverter BETA - Simon Brown. Converts and edits palettes including Paint.NET, PSP and Kuler palettes. Will only save Paint.NET palettes. Beta.
Panelling Effect - MadJik. Allows the moving of selection, vertically, horizontally or both. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Paper Kaleidocycles - Martin Osieka. This plugin allows the creation of nets for kaleidocycles. A kaleidocycle is a ring of pyramids which can be twisted inwards and outwards to show different sides of the pyramids.
Paste Alpha - BoltBait. Takes the clipboard contents and converts colors to grayscale, then uses the grayscale for Alpha values in the current layer (i.e. masking). Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
Pastel/Water Color - BoltBait. Pastel/Water color filter. BoltBait's Plugin Pack
PCX Plug-In - Joshua Bell. Load & save PCX images.
PDN File Info viewer - harold. View information about a Paint.NET file (dimensions, number of layers and the version of Paint.NET used to save the image).
PDN OpenSearch Custom Tool Bar - L3ron. Add the Paint.NET Search Engine (by Google) to Firefox or Internet Explorer toolbar.
PdnBench for Paint.NET v3.0 - Rick Brewster. Superseded by new version
PdnBench for Paint.NET v3.20 - Rick Brewster. Obsolete Paint.NET benchmarking utility (i.e. a system speedtest using Paint.NET). Forum thread no longer exists.
PdnFF - null54. Allow filters from Adobe's Filter Factory (for Photoshop) to be run by Paint.NET.
PDNWatermark - Simon Brown. Add watermarks to your image. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Pencil Sketch - Ed Harvey. Similar to the built in Pencil Sketch effect only up to 20 times faster. Found in Ed Harvey's FastFx plugin pack.
Perlin Texture - MadJik. Creates brilliantly colored patterns. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Person_321's texture and color plugins - person_321. Effects: Invert Channels, Rainbow loom, Sound wave & X Rainbow bars.
Perspective Effect (Beta) - dpy. Trapezoid transform of your image by adjusting the height &/or width of the sides. dpy's Pack
Perspective Lines - tzachs. Draws vanishing points & guidelines to help you with drawing in perspective.
Photo Flood Fill - pleska. Takes an image and 'flood-fill' it into the selection region, repeating it over and over.
Photoshop Brush - null54. Load and save brushes used by Adobe® Photoshop®. Brushes sampled from image data are supported, dynamically computed brushes are ignored.
Photoshop file plugin - frankb. Plugin for loading and saving Photoshop files. Use Photoshop PSD file plugin.
Photoshop Pattern - null54. Load Pattern files used by Photoshop's Fill command. Only Grayscale, Indexed and RGB mode patterns (8-bit and 16-bit) are supported.
Photoshop PSD file plugin - taoyue. Plugin for loading and saving Photoshop files.
Photoshop Swatch Converter - null54. Converts Photoshop color swatches (ACO files) to Paint.NET. Swatches with more than 96 colors are split into multiple parts. RGB, HSB, CMYK and Grayscale color modes are supported.
Pie Chart - evanolds. Create a pie chart by entering category names and values. Part of Evan's Effects.
Pixelate (Cairo Pentagonal) - Ed Harvey. Pixelate an image into irregular five sided polygons. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Pixelate (Hexagonal) - Ed Harvey. Pixelate an image into regular six sided polygons. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Pixelate+ v1.0 - pyrochild. Enhanced pixelate effect, adds a new sampling mode (the one GIMP uses) as well as the ability to use non-square cells. Pyrochild's Plugins
PixelatedFrame - Simon Brown. Adds a frame to an image that is a pixelated version of the image itself. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
PixelLab Beta 1 - Simon Brown. Provides a simplified programming language in which to create effects/plugins. Note: Beta status.
Plugin Effect Installer 1.0 - Hunter. Simple plugin installer. Select the *.dll file to install and click Go. Easy.
PNG Preprocessor - niwax. Optimizes image color range in order to reduce the saved PNG file size. Size of the file can be 40-80% of the original size.
PNM File Type Plugin - zeeshanejaz. Reads and writes PNM Images. PNM is a portable bitmap format used in legacy software (more common in LINUX / UNIX Platforms).
Point Blur - Boude. Does the reverse of Zoom Blur (Zoom Blur blurs away from a certain point, Point Blur blurs towards the centre point).
Point Warp - Illnab1024. Distort an image by stretching it toward or away from a specified point. Found in Illnab1024's Plugins
Point Warp / Engorged smudge - Illnab1024. Similar to the Bulge effect but in the horizontal plane instead of the vertical. Find a new version in Illnab1024's Plugins.
Polar to Rect - Illnab1024. Transfomation of polar coordinates to cartesian. In effect this creates a wrap around distortion of the original image. Found in Illnab1024's Plugins
Polar Transformation - MadJik. Translate image from rectangular to polar coordinates and vice versa. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Polaroid Frame - Ego Eram Reputo. Overlays a frame with the correct size ratios to form a polariod.
Polygon / Stars - BoltBait. Draws closed polygons & stars. BoltBait's Plugin Pack
Polygon / Stars - BoltBait. Render triangles, pentagons, hexagons and also stars. Useful for making standard shapes and the pointed edges of stickers. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
Polygon Tool - Simon Brown. A line tool - which will draw another line from the last drawing position to the current position.
Polygonal Transparency - evanolds. Create many sided polygons of transparent pixels. With options to feather edges & invert transparent areas. Part of Evan's Effects.
Portrait Effect - BoltBait. Soften portraits to look more professional. Included Paint.NET 3.1+ as Effects > Photo > Soften Portrait (originally in Effects > Portrait).
Posterize - Ed Harvey. Posterize is now built in to Paint.NET. Find it in the Adjustments menu.
Posterize Alpha - jxp. Based on the standard Posterize adjustment, with enhancements to also change the Alpha channel.
Posterize in HSV Space - MJW. Enhanced posterize effect that converts the color into HSV space, truncates the values, then converts back to RGB.
Posterize+ - AhmedElyamani. Reduce colorization differences with options to limit the output to certain color channels. Part of Ahmed's Plugin Pack
Power Stretch 2.0 Beta - pyjo. Stretch images in numerous ways including vertical, horizontal and bulge. Note: Beta
Primary Color Difference to Alpha - Enormator. Calculates the difference between the pixel and primary color. The more they are equal, the more transparency will result.
Printer+ v1.0 - Simon Brown. Enhanced Paint.NET printing interface.
PS Emboss - Cookies. Embossing effect. Simulates the one in Photoshop.
PSFilterPDN - null54. Run (some) Photoshop Filters using Paint.NET.
Psychedelic - romein. Filter creates a variety of psychedelic color effects.
Psychocolour - Red ochre. Produce a large range of psychedelic colour effects. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Pure Black and White converter - AdamCG. Converts image to a COMPLETELY black and white (not grayscale). Amount of black/white is configurable.
pyrochild plugins - pyrochild. Effects: Curves+, Borders 'N Shapes, Gradient Bars, Film, Jitter, Outline Object, Stitch, Scriptlab, Gradient Mapping, Splatter, Pixelate+, Color Match, Random Effect, Random Shape Fill, Smudge, Trail, Gradient Blocks, Twist, Liquify, Grid Warp.
Quick Gravity - AhmedElyamani. Stretches an image downwards (only). Part of Ahmed's Plugin Pack
Radial Blur Deluxe - dake. Configurable radial blur. Also known as Fast Radial Blur.
Radial Colors - MadJik. Predefined formulas (sinusoid curves) define and mix Red, Green, Blue colors. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Radius Fill Corners - dan9298. Round off square corners.
Rainbow - spongey437. Fills selection with a rainbow colored gradient.
Rainbow Loom - person_321. Renders a pre-defined pattern. Person_321's Texture & Color Plugins
Rainbow Twist - MadJik. Rainbow twist the three basic color Red, Green, Blue. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Rainbow-Splitter - Xhin. Split an image into two sections, both of which can be colored by a repeating colored gradient of your choice.
Random Effect v1.2 - pyrochild. Chooses a random plugin (or built-in effect), and renders it with randomized settings. Pyrochild's Plugins
Random lines Generator - MadJik. Create/add straight & curved lines. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Random mazes - MadJik. Two plugins to render horizontal or diagonal mazes with configurable size, wall chance, brush width & more. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Random Shape Fill v1.0 - pyrochild. Draws random (predefined) shapes on the canvas. 17 shape modes & 9 color modes plus many options. Pyrochild's Plugins
RAW File - Pebal. Dcraw based raw file reader.
Rawload v1.0 - avatare. Load *.raw files with metadata using the Windows Imaging Component and preserving the image metadata.
RawLoader - rpetrich. Decode RAW camera images and make them available for use in Paint.NET. Requires use of installer or plugin + DCRaw.exe. Download links are not working.
RawReader - Ivn. Dcraw based RAW file reader. DCRaw has been recompiled as a *.dll (32 and 64 bit).
Recolour choice - Red ochre. Presents multiple methods to select and replace a colour. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Red Eye Quick Fix - Tanel. Red eye removal tool. Make a selection around the eyes and run the plugin. Part of Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Red Ochre's Plugin Pack - Red ochre. Alpha Threshold, Composition Tool, Contour, Earths&Greys, Gradients Galore, Highlight, Noisechoice, Object2color, Object edge, Overblur, Psychocolor, Recolor choice, Selection2clear, Squirkle, Squirklewarp, Tweak edges.
Reduce Noise - Tom Jackson. Reduces the noise in an image while maintaining detail. Included in Paint.NET v3.22+
Reflection - effect - dS810. Create mirror/water type reflections of an existing image.
Refocus Filter v1.0 - alexb. Sharpens a blurred image using algorithm with deconvolution element.
Remove Dust - BoltBait. Removes photogaphic dust by minutely clone-stamping them out.
Render Color Wheel - MJW. Draws a HSV color wheel, centered in the current selection.
Resource translator v1.0 BETA - Simon Brown. Obsolete. Designed to aid development of Paint.NET Language packs. Replaced by Strings.resx by Paint.NET developer Rick Brewster
Reverse Colors - MadJik. Selectively reverse the values of any of the RGBA channels. Magical Plugins Megapack.
RGB Remapper - sradforth. Allows the remapping of RGB channels to other colours. Included in Stu's Effects.
RGB to CMYK - BoltBait. Conversion between RGB (RedGreenBlue) and CMYK (CyanMagentaYellowblacK) color formats.
RGB565 Filetype - ejohnson0547. Read and write to the RGB565 or RAW565 format. Used for Android splash screens.
Ripple - Ed Harvey. Applies a regular ripple distortion across the image surface. Wavelet size, shape and magnitude are all configurable. Similar to Wobble. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Rosaces - MadJik. Generate simple or complex 'roses' (symmetrical patterns like a mathematical representation of a rose/flower). Magical Plugins Megapack.
Rotate Text - dpy. Write text to the canvas at an angle. The dll named RotateTextSUI.dll is enhanced for larger displays. dpy's Pack
Rotate Zoom+ - dpy. Zoom & rotate a selection or layer with different resampling algorithms. dpy's Pack
Rotation Bilinear v1.1 - alexb. Precision rotation of selection using bilinear algorithm.
Rounded Rectangle - Curtis. Render a rectangle with customizable curvature in the corners. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
Rounded Rectangle v1.2.0.0 - Tim!. Uses the Primary and Secondary colours and the current brush width to draw a rectangle with rounded corners into the current selection. Tim's Effects.

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Sabrown100 Plugin Pack - Simon Brown. Superseded by later release: Simon Brown's Plugin Pack. Forum thread no longer exists.
ScreenPixel - Bleek II. Takes a (preferably pixelated) image and breaks the blocks into RGB components.
ScriptLab v2.4 - pyrochild. Create compilations of other Paint.NET effects, adjustments, and plugins. You can save, load, and share your scripts. Includes Batch Processor. Pyrochild's Plugins
Seamless Move - davidf. Helps create seamless images. Somewhat similar to Seamless Texture Maker
Seamless Texture Helper - BoltBait. Makes a given image seamlessly repeatable. Largely repalced by Seamless Texture Maker
Seamless Texture Maker - MadJik. An updated version of BoltBait's Seamless Texture Helper. Create textures with no apparent edge when tiled. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Segment Image - Neil Cassidy. Analyzes image and groups pixels that are relatively close together in the image and have roughly the same color.
Seismograph - Ed Harvey. Transform an image into a colored line representation. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Selection Obscurer - sradforth. Remove dust/spots/freckles/moles/left over food/extra limbs/etc.. This is a little like small scale seam carving. Included in Stu's Effects.
Selection Tools - BoltBait. Mini pack of tool for working on a selection. Effects are Feather (fade edges), Bevel (add shadow/highlights), Outline and Blur. Contained in BoltBait's Plugin Pack
Selection2clear - Red ochre. Makes the selection transparent, whilst leaving the selection active. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Selective Enhancement v1.1 - HiPhiSch. Spread out or push together colors close to the selected one.
Selective Palette - Curtis. Build up a list of colours, then convert each pixel in the image to the closest colour in the list. Lists can be saved and loaded as Paint.NET Palette files. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
Selective Toning v1.0 - HiPhiSch. Apply toning corrections. With blending mode selector and alpha channel support. Similar to Advanced Color Replacement.
Self-Negation - Xhin. Does the equivalent of taking a selection, adding it to another layer, setting the layer mode to 'Negation' and flattening it.
Sepia 2 - KrisVDM. Apply a sepia filer to an image. Configurable intensity. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
Shadow / Highlight Recovery - Tanel. Fix excessively contrasted photos, by brightening shadows and/or darkening highlights. Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Shadow effect - ryanr23. Generates shadows with angle and transparency options. Like Google Map.
Shape(ray, arrow, circle, etc) - myxlplyx. Draw rays, arrows & circles with 'tv snow' effect (similar to chalk drawing) added to the shapes.
Shape3D - MKT. Wrap your image around a 3D shape (with appropriate lighting).
Shaped Gradient v1.5 - n d. Creates a gradient in a multitude of shapes. Round, square, conical, linear and also elliptic, trapezoid, hexagonal & more…
Shapes - MadJik. Render a repeating shape. User selects the increase/decrease step, speed, etc, Magical Plugins Megapack.
Sharpen+ (Advanced Unsharp Mask) - Tanel. Sharpen photos with an unsharp mask. Yields finer results than the built-in sharpen effect. Part of Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Shatters - black2hack. Break up an image into fragments. Note Beta status. Similar to Mosaic
Silhoette Plugin v2.1 - Simon Brown. Silhouettes images with partial transparency; turns the RGB to 000000 while preserving alpha. Silhouette(sp?)
Silhouette Plus - Mike Ryan. Converts the entire canvas into your selected color while preserving the alpha levels of each pixel. Part of Mike Ryan's Plugins
Simon Brown's Legacy Pack - Simon Brown. There is no forum thread for this plugin pack. Find it as a link in one of the effect threads. Effects: Alpha Mask Brush, Bullet, Channels, Conditional Pen, Create Image Map, Desktop Background Preview, FilmNoir, FindEdges, Fire, Flags, ImageShack Upload, JPEG Effect, PDN Watermark, Pixelated Frame, Stock Library, Subtle Effect, Texture, Transitional Brush. Filetypes: AviFile, AVIImport & SVGImport. Note: the file SBCommon.dll is required to be installed with these effects.
Simon Brown's Plugin Pack - Simon Brown. Effects: CustomBrushesMini, ThatOtherApp, Printer+, Find Edges, Olden, Editable Text, Extend Border, DragFrom. Filetypes: Animated Image. Note: the file SBCommon.dll is required to be installed with these effects.
Simple Lines Plugin - spongey437. Draw vertical /horizontal lines across a selection.
Simplify - Ed Harvey. Blur which simplifies the image by reducing color differences (and therefore fine detail). Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Simulate Color Depth - Cookies. Reduces the color depth of an image as if they had x bits of color data. Both monochrome and RGB options are included. Supporting files (dither folder) go in the \Documents\Paint.NET User Files\ folder.
Sine Curves - MadJik. Use Equation from Curtis' Plugin Pack.
Sine Wave Distort - MadJik. Uses sine function to apply a horizontal &/or vertical shift. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Single Hue - Ed Harvey. Recolor an image to greyscale and a sinlge color (hue). Hue and Saturation are configurable. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Smart Blur - KrisVDM. Similar to the built in Surface Blur. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
Smart Sharpen - Pebal. Dedicated to sharpening images after reduction size. Uses an adaptive algorithm, optimized for maximum reduction of halo effect.
Smooth - Toli. Selected area is smoothed internally, as if there were no surroundings. Toli's Effects.
Smudge v2.2 - pyrochild. Use custom brushes (*.png format) to smudge along the mouse path. Pyrochild's Plugins
Soft Saturation - Ed Harvey. Enhance or reduce the amount of color saturation. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Soften Edges - jchunn. Detect 'rough' edges and softens them. Jesse Chunn Plugin Pack.
Soften Portrait - Ed Harvey. Similar to the built in Soften Portrait effect only up to 40 times faster. Found in Ed Harvey's FastFx plugin pack.
Solarize - Ed Harvey. Reverses the hue of shadows and highlights. No configurable parameters. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Sound Wave - person_321. Renders a wave pattern. Person_321's Texture & Color Plugins
Sparkle Glitter - kshotts. Generate glowing spheres, diamonds, and flares, with lots of parameters. Replaced by MadJiks Sparkle Effect
Sparkle Stars - kshotts. Generate stars. Replaced by MadJiks Sparkle Effect
Sparkles Effect - MadJik. Scans the image to find the bright highlights then adds some sparkle to them. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Speech Bubble - dpy. Write speech bubbles and text directly to the canvas. dpy's Pack
Spiral - MadJik. Simple spiral plugin. Use it to create/add spirals to your images. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Spiral Text ver 1.2 - dpy. Writes text on a spiral. dpy's Pack
SpiroGraph - MadJik. Draws alternated centered polygons and rotates/reduces each of them. Uses Primary & Secondary colors. Magical Plugins Megapack.
SpiroShapes - MadJik. Draws repeating polygon shapes to create a more complex shape. Similar to spirograph. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Splashes - MadJik. Create filled or unfilled splashes (think unusual closed polygon shapes). Magical Plugins Megapack.
Splatter v1.5 - pyrochild. Create paths similar to dripping paint. Pyrochild's Plugins
Splinter - Ed Harvey. Generates a number of rays (splinters) radiating outwards from the pixel. Number of splinters, length and rotation are configurable. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
SpriteSheet Animation v1.3 - SeriousSam. Test and design Sprite Sheets.
Spritesheet Export Plugin - MadDugan. Saves a multilayered sprite sheet to a single layered file with the layers positioned side-by-side.
Squirkle - Red ochre. Render 'squirkle' shapes from rounded lozenge through circle to square. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Squirkle Warp - Red ochre. Magnifies and distorts 'squirkular' (square/circle) shapes. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Star Glow - MadJik. Use it to add some high lustre sparkle to your image. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Starry Sky - mcamp14. Creates a starry sky (utilizes Pixellab). Renders a handful of stars on a balck background. No configurable parameters.
Stars Effect - MadJik. Create polygon based multipoint stars. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Steganography - BoltBait. Hide / show a second image in your original image. BoltBait's Plugin Pack
Stencil - jchunn. Convert an image (or selection) into a two color image similar to a stencil. Jesse Chunn Plugin Pack.
Stewien Filters - John Stewien. Apply one of five filters to your image. Filters are Dilate, Kuwahara Filter, Kuwahara Filter Modified, To Angle and Transparency By Color Subtraction.
Stipple - davidf. Replaces an image with a 'dotted' version (circles with density depending on the image brightness).
Stitch - pyrochild. Distorts base image with a 'splintered' appearance. Pyrochild's Plugins
StockLibrary1.5 - Simon Brown. Manage your stock images from within Paint.NET. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Stus Effects - sradforth. Selection Obscurer, Advanced Rotate, Alpha Contrast, Vignette, iPhone TabBar Icon Maker & RGB remapper.
SubtleEffect - Simon Brown. Allows you to select a plugin and independently adjust the opacity that the effect will hold over the original image. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Subtract Color - davidf. An easy to use color remover (i.e. color-to-alpha).
SVGImport - Simon Brown. Adds support for SVG files. Files will be rasterized by the conversion process. Note: requires InkScape be installed.
Switch Alpha to Gray - BoltBait. Converts the image to shades of gray based on the alpha value of each pixel. Useful for making masks. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
Switch Gray to Alpha - BoltBait. Deletes white/black from and image (leaving transparent pixels). Converts all other pixels to black. Useful for isolating line art. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
Take screen shots and paint it in Paint.NET - pamkkkkk. Screen shot utility to take screen images and send them to Paint.NET.
Tanel's Photo and Color Plugins - Tanel. Effects: Sharpen+, Shadow/highlight recovery, Local contrast enhancement, Color to alpha, Color mixer, Red eye quick fix, Basic photo adjustments, Black & White Converter, Eyeshine (animal red-eye) removal, Grain noise, Alpha blur v2, Bidirectional Blur.
Target Panel - rwp80. Target Panel v1.0 advanced color manipulator. Part of Color Target Plugin Pack
Text Pro (free trial) - romein. Impressive Word Art package for Paint.NET. Registration is required to remove watermark protection.
Text Steganography BETA - I Like Pi. Encodes hidden text within an image. The plugin is also needed to view the text. Note: Beta status.
Text+ - dpy. Render text specifing line spacing, location, direction, color and font pitch. Useful for when you need precise placement of text.
Texture - Simon Brown. Add a custom texture to the image on the canvas. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Texturize effect - MichaelVinther. Add a texture to a photo or image by changing the pixels brightness (based on the gradient of the texture).
That other app v1.0 - Simon Brown. Adds an item to the tools menu which allows you to shell out to another application (GIMP, Photoshop, etc..,) to edit the current layer. On Save & Close the changes will appear in Paint.NET.
Thermal Heat Map - Ego Eram Reputo. Create a thermal representation of an image where brightness becomes 'heat' and dimness becomes 'cool'.
Threshold - Ed Harvey. Converts a range of colors to black and white based on the user set threshold. Color channel is selectable as are the minima and maxima. Part of Ed Harvey Effects v3.5
Threshold - Simon Brown. The threshold effect will change all pixels over the specified number to white, and the rest black. This version is obsolete, use Ed Harvey's version instead Ed Harvey Effects
Tile Fill From Clipboard - dan9298. Fills the current image with a tiled version of another image (held in the clipboard).
Tile Image - Curtis. Tiles the image a number of times in each direction. Has the ability to flip every 2nd image to make the edges line up. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
Tiles Reflection XL - MadJik. Enhanced version of 'Tiles Reflection' from Paint.net v3.1. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Tim's Effects - Tim!. Contains: Rounded Rectangle v1.2 & Mosaic Effect v1.0.
Tint Splinter - Xhin. Recolor an image by simultaneously tinting it with two different colors. Can take an RGB channel and shift it to another, for example shift green to red.
Toli's Effects - Toli. Effects: Mirror/Rotate, Mirror / Rotate Menu, Engrave/Emboss, Smooth. All effects require IniFile.dll be present in /Effects/ folder. Language files are also available as part of the package.
Toon Filter - ownage. Extracts pencil / line type drawing from an image (based on edge detection).
Toon Shader - Smoke_Dev420. Simplifies image colors using code based on DirectX toon shaders.
Trail - pyrochild. Echos' an object on an otherwise transparent layer, so that it appears to have a 'trail'. Pyrochild's Plugins
Trail 3d - n d. Creates a shaped gradient 'trail' from the object towards a configurable destination point. Gradient color is editable.
TransitionalBrush - Simon Brown. Allows users to select two colours and have a brush that gradually changes colour between them. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Transparency Adjustment Effect - BoltBait. Adjust the opacity of a selection independent of the entire layer. BoltBait's Plugin Pack
TreeGen - MadJik. Generates tree-type trunks and branches. For a more realistic effect, see the GenTree effect. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Triangular Gradient - Enormator. Makes a triangular gradient in selection (or on the full image when nothing is selected) from primary to secondary color (including alpha).
True Blur - Ed Harvey. Subtle blurring effect which allows much finer control than other blurs. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Tube Effect (aka tube oblique?) - MadJik. Distort an image as if you wrapped it around a cylinder. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Turbulent.Circles - Martin Osieka. Renders concentric circles ranging from smooth to wavy. Useful for creating textures like smoke rings, lava, flower petals, etc…,.
Turbulent.Effects - Martin Osieka. Two plugins to render lines and circles combined with turbulence. Useful to create textures like marble, wood, smoke rings, flowers, etc…,.
Turbulent.Lines - Martin Osieka. Render lines combined with turbulence with results ranging from smooth lines to chaotic waves. Useful for createing textures like waves, horizons, marble, wood grain, smoke, etc…,.
Twainable - NisseBosseLasse. Add TWAIN support for scanners. Should be compatible with all scanners that are TWAIN compliant. Place both Twainable.dll and EZTW32.dll in the /Effects/ folder.
Tweak edges - Red ochre. Detects abrupt changes in tone and produces outlines from these tonal changes.
Tweak Transparency - Red ochre. Thicken outlines, set transparency minima & maxima, bevels & shadow/halo effects
Twist - pyrochild. Twist a portion of an image. Configurable size & many other parameters. Pyrochild's Plugins
TwistZ - MadJik. Transform an image by applying a spiral twist. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Unsharp Mask - romein. Corrects blurring introduced during photographing, scanning, resampling, or printing.
Upload to... V2.0 - Simon Brown. Upload images direct to the internet from within Paint.Net. Requires resource file SBCommon.dll to reside in the Effects directory. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Vantage Preview Images (.VBP) - mchansy. Support for Vantage Sat Receiver Preview Images.
Varicose - jchunn. Wibbly line creator. Jesse Chunn Plugin Pack.
Vibration - AhmedElyamani. Blurs then color bands an image. The result is somewhat similar to the appearance of oil on water. Part of Ahmed's Plugin Pack
Vibrato - MadJik. Generates colored moire rings within the colored parts of an image. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Vignette - Ed Harvey. Apply a black vignette to the image. Size, shape and strength are all configurable. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Vignette1 - sradforth. Easy vignette creator. Options include power (strength of effect), X and Y axis configuration and transparency/coloring. Included in Stu's Effects.
Vignetting Filter - alexb. Radial Vignetting Photo Filter. Due to the similarity to Ed Harvey's Vignette plugin, this plugin has been flagged obsolete and the thread removed from the forum.
Vitrious - Ed Harvey. Expand or contract a range of colors by specifying the Hue and Amount of change. Think of this as a subtle recoloring effect. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Volutes - MadJik. Draws random curves. The curve is pre-calculated and then resized to fit in the image, so start and end points are at random positions. Magical Plugins Megapack.
VTF Plug-In (1.0.4) - Nem. VTF file support. File format used by the Source engine (Half-Life 2 etc.).
Water Reflection - MadJik. Render a reflection as if your image was reflected in water. Updated. See Wet Floor Reflection. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Wave Text v1.0 - dpy. Writes a string of text along a sine curve. The dll named WaveTextSUI.dll is enhanced for larger displays. dpy's Pack
Wavelet Haar 2-tap - Hindol. Performs a Haar 2-tap transformation of an image (quarters the image size makes three duplicates, performing different edge detection algorithms on each).
Waves - MadJik. Wave distortion effect. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Weave - Ed Harvey. Distort the image as if it was cut into strips and woven back together. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
WebP Filetype - null54. Load and save Google's WebP filetype. To install place all three dlls from the download in the FileTypes folder.
Wet Floor Reflection - MadJik. Renders a reflection of an object as if it was standing on a wet floor. Magical Plugins Megapack.
WhichSymbol / WhichSymbolPlus - Ego Eram Reputo. Character & symbol browser/writer for installed fonts. Character is rendered using the Primary color.
White Balance - Ed Harvey. Sublte recoloring effects. Specify Hue and Amount (strength) of the retinting. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Whitepoint Correction - Lord Crc. Color correction, based off of a neutral point in the image.
WMF (Windows Metafile) - Bruce Bowyer-Smyth. Opens WMF files as a raster image. NOTE: OPENS FILES ONLY - will not save the *.WMF format. To install place all three DLL files in the /Filetypes/ folder.
Wobble - Ed Harvey. Applies a ripple distortion across the image surface. Wavelet size, shape and magnitude are all configurable. Similar to Ripple. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
X Rainbow bars - person_321. Renders horizontal bars of rainbow hues. Person_321's Texture & Color Plugins
XCF filetype - Martin Osieka. Load and save images in GIMP native file format XCF (and its packed variants XCFGZ and XCFBZ2). To install, copy the two files into the /FileTypes/ folder.
XNB format - r2d2rigo. Loads XNA 4 uncompressed Texture2D & XNBs compiled for Windows or Windows Phone. No save option. To install, copy all four DLL files to the /FileTypes/ folder.
XPM File Type plugin - naylorjs. XPM support in Paint.NET. Note: doesn't handle every XPM option.
XY Coords - MadJik. Creates a grid with the text giving the position of the cell in this grid with X,Y coords. Useful to understand the transformation done by other distort effects. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Zigzag ray (aka eShape_umabob) - myxlplyx. Creates shapes/lines using scales. Appears in Effects menu as 'eShape_umabob' for some strange reason.
Zoom Blur Deluxe - dake. Improved zoom blur effect. Also known as Fast zoom blur.

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AdamCG - Pure Black and White converter Converts image to a COMPLETELY black and white (not grayscale). Amount of black/white is configurable.
AhmedElyamani - Ahmed's Plugins Effects: Apply Color, Cartoonize, Color Switch, Clarifaction+, InkSketch+, Posterize+, Quick Gravity & Vibration
AhmedElyamani - Apply Color Apply a filter to recolor or tint an image. Part of Ahmed's Plugin Pack
AhmedElyamani - Cartoonize Applies dithering to simplify color differences and turn photos into cartoons. Part of Ahmed's Plugin Pack
AhmedElyamani - Clarifaction+ Enhance detail in a photograph by adjusting the detail and saturation. Part of Ahmed's Plugin Pack
AhmedElyamani - InkSketch+ Turns images into a black and white inked facsimile. Part of Ahmed's Plugin Pack
AhmedElyamani - Posterize+ Reduce colorization differences with options to limit the output to certain color channels. Part of Ahmed's Plugin Pack
AhmedElyamani - Quick Gravity Stretches an image downwards (only). Part of Ahmed's Plugin Pack
AhmedElyamani - Vibration Blurs then color bands an image. The result is somewhat similar to the appearance of oil on water. Part of Ahmed's Plugin Pack
alexb - Refocus Filter v1.0 Sharpens a blurred image using algorithm with deconvolution element.
alexb - Rotation Bilinear v1.1 Precision rotation of selection using bilinear algorithm.
alexb - Vignetting Filter Radial Vignetting Photo Filter. Due to the similarity to Ed Harvey's Vignette plugin, this plugin has been flagged obsolete and the thread removed from the forum.
Anaco - Colour Distort Subtracts the red blue green by x+y or x-y or x*y depending on the option you select and then divides it by the amount you specified.
andersbursjoo - Greyscale channel mixer Converts images to greyscale with luminescence control. Download link is broken so plugin cannot be downloaded.
APShredder - BlendModes Plus v1.3 Apply a host of new blend modes: Normal, Average, Blue, Color, Cyan, Divide, Exclusion, Grain Extract, Grain Merge, Green, Hard Light, Hard Mix, Hue, Linear Burn, Linear Dodge, Linear Light, Luminosity, Magenta, Maximum, Minimum, Phoenix, Pin Light, Red.
APShredder - Dissolve 1.3 Dissolves one image onto another.
APShredder - Extract Color v1.0 Allows user to change an image to grayscale, while keeping a certain color range in color (automates the Pleasantville Effect).
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon Tools Pack v3 Numerous color & distort effects: Asmageddon_Alpha works, Asmageddon_Channel multiplier, Asmageddon_Channel_Shift, Asmageddon_Channel_Works_Plus, Asmageddon_Color_Percentage_Plus, Asmageddon_From P to S Grey, Asmageddon_From P to S, Asmageddon_HSV inversion, Asmageddon_Hue Channeling multiply, Asmageddon_Hue Red Psychodelic, Asmageddon_Image coder, Asmageddon_Inverto_pushing, Asmageddon_Inverto_pushing_Caleidoscope, Asmageddon_Inverto_pushing_plus, Asmageddon_Multiplo uniqua, Asmageddon_PS Mega, Asmageddon_PS Only, Asmageddon_Pseudo water, Asmageddon_Quadro disorter B, Asmageddon_Quadro disorter, Asmageddon_Render-Border, Asmageddon_Render-Quadro bumperoo, Asmageddon_Render-Quadro inverto, Asmageddon_Render-Quadro sharper, Asmageddon_RGB tricks, Asmageddon_Strange Bulger B, Asmageddon_Strange Bulger, Asmageddon_Strange_Bulger Kaleidoscope.
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Alpha works Enhance or reduce Alpha channel. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Channel multiplier Enhance colorization by multiplying the RGB color channels by a factor of up to 20. Multiplication is quirky to say the least. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Channel_Shift Selectively move an RGB, Alpha or All color channel a nuber of pixels in X or Y directions. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Channel_Works_Plus Enhance or reduce the color information in an RGB, Alpha or combined RGB color channel. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Color_Percentage_Plus Alter the R, G or B color channels by percentage. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_From P to S Assumed to shift the specified color channel(s) in some way between Primary and Secondary colors. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_From P to S Grey Assumed to shift the specified color channel(s) in some way between Primary and Secondary colors. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_HSV inversion Think three checkboxes to invert the Hues, Saturation and Value. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Hue Channeling multiply Red, Green & Blue channel multiplier. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Hue Red Psychodelic Change the Red in an image to another Hue. Red channel only. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Image coder Turn an image into heavily distorted pattern. No decoder or author provided description of algorithm. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Inverto_pushing Basic image warping by 'pushing' the image from its center toward one of the corners. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Inverto_pushing_Caleidoscope Similar to Asmageddon_Inverto_pushing with the addition of kaleidoscopic duplicates. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Inverto_pushing_plus As for Asmageddon_Inverto_pushing with the additional option to tile the image across the canvas. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Multiplo uniqua Apparently another channel multiplier. Author: 'makes strange colors?'. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_PS Mega A previous version of From P to S. Yields some interesting greyscale results. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_PS Only Recolors image to Primary and Secondary colors (only). Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Pseudo water Distorts an image with a watery waveform. Effect is very powerful. Menu title is simply 'Water'. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Quadro disorter Breaks image into sharp pieces and scatters them. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Quadro disorter B Breaks image into sharp pieces and scatters them. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Render-Border Renders a strange Primary colored border not unlike a raindrop covered window. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Render-Quadro bumperoo Greyscale distortion/patterning effect. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Render-Quadro inverto More greyscale distortion/patterning effects. Reminiscent of Sierpinksi triangles. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Render-Quadro sharper Still more greyscale distortion/patterning effects. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_RGB tricks Mirror or invert the RGB channels. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Strange Bulger Effect generates an error. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Strange Bulger B Effect generates an error. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
Asmageddon Prince - Asmageddon_Strange_Bulger Kaleidoscope Tiles image with mirroring in horisontal and vertical axes. Somewhat settings are similar to Polar Inversion type trnasformations. Found in Asmageddon Tools Pack
asura - Floyd-Steinberg dithering Apply Floyd-Steinberg dithering. Links are broken therefore plugin is unavailable for download.
avatare - Rawload v1.0 Load *.raw files with metadata using the Windows Imaging Component and preserving the image metadata.
Aziz - Outline Selection Outline the inside of a selection with a rectangular border. Use BoltBait's Outline Selection
black2hack - Shatters Break up an image into fragments. Note Beta status. Similar to Mosaic
Bleek II - Blue/Green Screen Remover Remove green screen / blue screen (background) from an image. Note: semi-broken
Bleek II - Displacement and Alpha Mask Distorts an image based on the light values of the mask.
Bleek II - ScreenPixel Takes a (preferably pixelated) image and breaks the blocks into RGB components.
BoltBait - Arrow Effect is now included in Paint.NET from version 3.07+
BoltBait - Bevel Selection Adds a bevelled effect to the edges of a selection with contrasting highlight and shadowing colors faking a lighting effect. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait - Blur Selection Edge Blurs the edge of a selection. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait - BoltBait's Pack Effects: Color Balance, Transparency, Flip (Horizontal or Vertical), Dream, Pastel, Gaussian Blur Plus, Feather, OldFeather, Outline, Paste Alpha, Switch Alpha to Gray, Switch Gray to Alpha, Combined Adjustments, Sharpen Landscape, Polygon/Stars, Flames, Bevel Selection, Blur Selection edge, Feather selection, Outline Selection.
BoltBait - Color Balance Easy color correcting or tinting effect.
BoltBait - Combined Photo Adjustments Combines a number of photo adjustments (like Noise Reduction, Brightness/Contrast, Hue, Saturation) within one handy to use effect.
BoltBait - Dream Adds a 'dreamy' or softening filter to the image. BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait - Enhance Details Kind of a reverse of BoltBait's 'Soften Portrait' effect. This effect reintroduces edges, grain & noise type artifacts to enhance photographic details.
BoltBait - Feather Plugin Softens the edges of objects that you are combining to make composite pictures. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait - Feather Plugin - Old Version Softens the edges of objects that you are combining to make composite pictures. A newer version exists (see Feather Plugin. Included as part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait - Feather Selection Fades out the edge os a selection in order to blend it more effectively with the background. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait - Fire Plugin (aka Burninate) Turn a black & white gradient into flames. BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait - Flip Flips the selected pixels horizontally or vertically. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack. This version replaces the version found in this thread: Flip.
BoltBait - Gaussian Blur+ Enhanced Gaussian Blur which can be used to selectively blur an image by color or alpha channel. Previously known as Channel Blur.
BoltBait - Ink Sketch Converts image to inked sketch version. Included Paint.NET 3.10+
BoltBait - Landscape Automates a number enhancements for landscape pictures. Also known as 'Sharpen Landscape'. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait - Lomography Simulate the effects of a Lomo camera : high contrast, twisted colors and a noticeable vignette.
BoltBait - Object Reflections - Wet Floor Effect Obsolete. Use MadJik's Wet Floor Reflection.
BoltBait - Outline Puts an outline of the selected color around your object. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait - Outline Selection Outline the current selection with your choice of color and width. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait - Paste Alpha Takes the clipboard contents and converts colors to grayscale, then uses the grayscale for Alpha values in the current layer (i.e. masking). Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait - Pastel/Water Color Pastel/Water color filter. BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait - Polygon / Stars Draws closed polygons & stars. BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait - Polygon / Stars Render triangles, pentagons, hexagons and also stars. Useful for making standard shapes and the pointed edges of stickers. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait - Portrait Effect Soften portraits to look more professional. Included Paint.NET 3.1+ as Effects > Photo > Soften Portrait (originally in Effects > Portrait).
BoltBait - Remove Dust Removes photogaphic dust by minutely clone-stamping them out.
BoltBait - RGB to CMYK Conversion between RGB (RedGreenBlue) and CMYK (CyanMagentaYellowblacK) color formats.
BoltBait - Seamless Texture Helper Makes a given image seamlessly repeatable. Largely repalced by Seamless Texture Maker
BoltBait - Selection Tools Mini pack of tool for working on a selection. Effects are Feather (fade edges), Bevel (add shadow/highlights), Outline and Blur. Contained in BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait - Steganography Hide / show a second image in your original image. BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait - Switch Alpha to Gray Converts the image to shades of gray based on the alpha value of each pixel. Useful for making masks. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait - Switch Gray to Alpha Deletes white/black from and image (leaving transparent pixels). Converts all other pixels to black. Useful for isolating line art. Part of BoltBait's Plugin Pack
BoltBait - Transparency Adjustment Effect Adjust the opacity of a selection independent of the entire layer. BoltBait's Plugin Pack
Boude - Alpha map Convert color to transparency & vice versa.
Boude - Point Blur Does the reverse of Zoom Blur (Zoom Blur blurs away from a certain point, Point Blur blurs towards the centre point).
Braiden - Paint.Net Plugin Manager Add or remove plugins from the Paint.NET/Effects folder.
Bruce Bowyer-Smyth - GPU Channel Blur Hardware accelerated blur which perfoems a separate and unique gaussian blur for each color channel with each channel having it's own blur radius. Part of Hardware Accelerated Blur Pack
Bruce Bowyer-Smyth - GPU Gaussian Blur Hardware accelerated Gaussian Blur. Part of Hardware Accelerated Blur Pack
Bruce Bowyer-Smyth - GPU Motion Blur Hardware accelerated Motion Blur. Part of Hardware Accelerated Blur Pack
Bruce Bowyer-Smyth - GPU Radial Blur Hardware accelerated Radial Blur. Part of Hardware Accelerated Blur Pack
Bruce Bowyer-Smyth - GPU Zoom Blur Hardware accelerated Zoom Blur. Part of Hardware Accelerated Blur Pack
Bruce Bowyer-Smyth - Hardware Accelerated Blur Pack Use your video card to process images with a potentially huge performance leap. The blurs in this pack are: Channel Blur, Gaussian Blur, Motion Blur, Radial Blur & Zoom Blur.
Bruce Bowyer-Smyth - WMF (Windows Metafile) Opens WMF files as a raster image. NOTE: OPENS FILES ONLY - will not save the *.WMF format. To install place all three DLL files in the /Filetypes/ folder.
Chrysler - JPEG XR Load and save JPEG XR (aka HD Photo) image files
Cookies - Average Edge Blur Edge blur. Samples colors at the edge of an 8-way circle and returns the average.
Cookies - Conditional Effects Gives you the ability to run 6 effects, in the order, and only affect the colors matching the set conditions.
Cookies - High Pass High pass filter - used to correct (sharpen) images in much the same way as Unsharp Mask
Cookies - Lightning Create lightning, smoke and other cool energy bolts.
Cookies - PS Emboss Embossing effect. Simulates the one in Photoshop.
Cookies - Simulate Color Depth Reduces the color depth of an image as if they had x bits of color data. Both monochrome and RGB options are included. Supporting files (dither folder) go in the \Documents\Paint.NET User Files\ folder.
Corillian - Paint.NET Bulk Image Processor Batch processor. Removed by Paint.NET developer for failing to comply with plugin guidelines. Forum thread no longer exists.
Crazy Man Dan - GREYCstoration Wrapper *BETA* Replaced by the built-in Effects > Noise > Reduce Noise effect. Forum thread no longer exists.
Curtis - Blur Map Blur the image by the value taken from the map image. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
Curtis - Channel Mask Similar to Alpha Mask but has more control over which channels to apply the mask to, and which channels to create the mask from. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
Curtis - Curtis' Plugin Pack Effects: Tile image, Jumble, Selective palette, Equations, Effects Lab, Fern Fractal, Channel Mask, Displacement Map, Blur Map, Dots, Rounded Rectangle. To install, extract and place all three DLL files in your Paint.Net/Effects/ folder.
Curtis - Displacement Map Pixels are offset by the amount determined by the map channel and the displacement slider, and are offset in the direction of the angle chooser. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
Curtis - Dots Turn image into a grid of dots. Options to adjust the size and highlighting. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
Curtis - Effects Lab Run another effect through a filter. Useful search box helps find effects by name. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
Curtis - Equations Type in a mathematical equation and have it rendered to the canvas. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
Curtis - Fern Fractal Renders a fern onto your canvas. Options include colour, angle, position, width, height & density. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
Curtis - Jumble Jumbles the image in horizontal and vertical elements. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
Curtis - Rounded Rectangle Render a rectangle with customizable curvature in the corners. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
Curtis - Selective Palette Build up a list of colours, then convert each pixel in the image to the closest colour in the list. Lists can be saved and loaded as Paint.NET Palette files. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
Curtis - Tile Image Tiles the image a number of times in each direction. Has the ability to flip every 2nd image to make the edges line up. Found in Curtis' Plugin Pack. Three DLL's contain a number of effects.
dake - Erode / Dilate filter Dilatation is a simple way to remove scratches and noise from a uniform background. Erode is similar to the Median Blur effect.
dake - Radial Blur Deluxe Configurable radial blur. Also known as Fast Radial Blur.
dake - Zoom Blur Deluxe Improved zoom blur effect. Also known as Fast zoom blur.
dan9298 - Radius Fill Corners Round off square corners.
dan9298 - Tile Fill From Clipboard Fills the current image with a tiled version of another image (held in the clipboard).
davidf - Alpha to Dots Resets alpha values in the image to 0 or 255, based on the original alpha value. The result is a 'dotty' transition instead of a blended one (imagine old newpaper images)
davidf - Cell Texture Produces a myriad of neighboring 'cells'. Hugely configurable.
davidf - Curly Lines Render all kinds of curly (and straight) lines. Intimidating UI is well explained in companion PDF.
davidf - Dot Plugin Reduce an image to monochrome comprised of dark dots on a light background.
davidf - Local Noise Similar to the Frosted Glass effect, but with more configuration options (Radius, Strength, Coverage, Distance Bias, etc…,).
davidf - Seamless Move Helps create seamless images. Somewhat similar to Seamless Texture Maker
davidf - Stipple Replaces an image with a 'dotted' version (circles with density depending on the image brightness).
davidf - Subtract Color An easy to use color remover (i.e. color-to-alpha).
Dean Ashton - DDS File Support Enables DDS file loading & saving. Included Paint.NET 3.1+. Forum thread no loner exists.
DeathStar - Color Balance MIX Add more color or darken/lighten the image.
dpy - 1px Expansion Expands areas of color by one pixel. dpy's Pack
dpy - AA's Assistant Used to soften the edges of an object in order to blend it with a background. Object must be surrounded by transparent pixels to find the edges.
dpy - Alpha to 0 Set the alpha channel to zero (transparent). dpy's Pack
dpy - Alpha to 255 Set the alpha channel to 255 (opaque). dpy's Pack
dpy - Black and Alpha+ Changes an image into black and white , and changes brightness into transparency. dpy's Pack
dpy - Circle Text Writes text into a circle, or on an angle. dpy's Pack
dpy - Color Balance+ Enhanced color balance with Highlight, Shadow & Mid Tonal adjustments. dpy's Pack
dpy - dpy's Pack Effects: Black and Alpha+, Color Balance+, Multi-Threshold, Rotate_Zoom+, Perspective Effect, AA's Assistant, Metallize, Text+, Circle Text, Rotate Text, Spiral Text & Wave Text, Speech Bubble, 1px Expansion, Alpha to 0, Alpha to 255
dpy - Metallize Applies a chrome or metallic sheen to an image. dpy's Pack
dpy - Multi-Threshold Run multiple 'threshold' filters at once. Excellent for turning a photo into Warhol inspired pop-art. dpy's Pack
dpy - Perspective Effect (Beta) Trapezoid transform of your image by adjusting the height &/or width of the sides. dpy's Pack
dpy - Rotate Text Write text to the canvas at an angle. The dll named RotateTextSUI.dll is enhanced for larger displays. dpy's Pack
dpy - Rotate Zoom+ Zoom & rotate a selection or layer with different resampling algorithms. dpy's Pack
dpy - Speech Bubble Write speech bubbles and text directly to the canvas. dpy's Pack
dpy - Spiral Text ver 1.2 Writes text on a spiral. dpy's Pack
dpy - Text+ Render text specifing line spacing, location, direction, color and font pitch. Useful for when you need precise placement of text.
dpy - Wave Text v1.0 Writes a string of text along a sine curve. The dll named WaveTextSUI.dll is enhanced for larger displays. dpy's Pack
dS810 - Reflection - effect Create mirror/water type reflections of an existing image.
dsplaisted - Graph Maker Uses (and builds on) the Grid Maker plugin to render graphs.
DW.dev - Alpha Transform v1.0 Superseded by a later release: Alpha Transform 1.1
DW-dev - Alpha Transform 1.1 Pixels below the lower limit get alpha set to 0 (fully transparent). Pixels above the upper limit get alpha set to 255 (fully opaque). Pixels in between get alpha between 0 and 255 depending on their brightness.
Ed Harvey - Color Filter Apply a colored filter with options to configure Hue, Density and Preserve Highlights. Part of Ed Harvey Effects v3.5
Ed Harvey - Color Flip/Rotate Quickly apply a color change to the image by clicking on one of many recolored thumbnails. Also known as Color Channel Flip/Rotate. Part of Ed Harvey Effects v3.5
Ed Harvey - Color Tint Apply a color tint to the image. Options: Hue & Tint amount. Part of Ed Harvey Effects v3.5
Ed Harvey - Cross-Processing Classic film effect; Increased contrast, weird color shifts & tints. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Dither - Atkinson Halftone This effect DOES NOT work correctly if you have any selection active. It should ONLY be used on whole layers. Part of Ed's Egregious Effects
Ed Harvey - Dither - Floyd-Steinberg Halftone This effect DOES NOT work correctly if you have any selection active. It should ONLY be used on whole layers. Part of Ed's Egregious Effects
Ed Harvey - Drop Ripple Mimic top-down view of water ripples as if an object was dropped into a still pool of water. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Ed Harvey Effects Superseded by a later release
Ed Harvey - Ed Harvey Effects (v3.30 Beta 1) Superseded by a later release
Ed Harvey - Ed Harvey Effects (v3.30) Superseded by a later release
Ed Harvey - Ed Harvey Effects Archive Some of the effects in the Ed Harvey Effects package have been incorporated in Paint.NET. However, in some instances the built-in versions have a simpler interface or less features. The original effects will be archived here for anyone who really needs th
Ed Harvey - Ed Harvey Effects v 3.5 The latest version of the Ed Harvey Effects package. Effects: Simplify, Splinter, True Blur, Color Filter, Color Channel Flip/Rotate, Color Tint, Extract Channel, Filtered Black and White, Invert Intensity, Single Hue, Solarize, Threshold, Vitrious, White Balance, Drop Ripple, Glass Blocks, InsideOut, Lens, MultiView, Pixelate (Hexagonal), Pixelate (Cairo Pentagonal), Ripple, Wobble, Cross-Processing, Vignette, Lattice, Weave, Halftone, Seismograph, Soft Saturation.
Ed Harvey - Ed Harvey Effects v3.36 Superseded by a later release
Ed Harvey - Ed Harvey's FastFx These are replacements for existing paint.net effects that have been optimized for speed (Fast Blur, Pencil Sketch, Glow, Soften Portrait & Hue / Saturation).
Ed Harvey - EdHarvey Effects Superseded by new version
Ed Harvey - Ed's Egregious Effects These effects DO NOT work correctly if you have any selection active. They should ONLY be used on whole layers. Effects: Fast Blur, Dither - Floyd-Steinberg Halftone, Dither - Atkinson HalfTone.
Ed Harvey - Extract Channel Allows the isolation of a single RGB, HSV or CMYK color channel (plus many more). Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Fast Blur This blur is based on Gaussian blur and is 10 to 200 times faster (depending on radius). Found in Ed Harvey's FastFx plugin pack.
Ed Harvey - Fast Blur This effect DOES NOT work correctly if you have any selection active. It should ONLY be used on whole layers. Part of Ed's Egregious Effects
Ed Harvey - Filtered Black and White Convert an image to greyscale using a colored filter to dictate tonal changes. Filter density (strength) is configurable. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Fragment Creates copies of the base image, each shifted from the original position by a given amount. The copies are then averaged together. Ed Harvey's Effects.
Ed Harvey - Glass Blocks Distort an image as if were viewed from behind a wall of rounded glass blocks. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Glow Similar to the built in Glow effect only up to 20 times faster. Found in Ed Harvey's FastFx plugin pack.
Ed Harvey - Halftone Simulates continuous tones in the image through the use of dots of varying size, shape, spacing and density. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Hue / Saturation Similar to the built in Hue / Saturation effect and up to 50 times faster. Found in Ed Harvey's FastFx plugin pack.
Ed Harvey - Inside Out Appears to be a cartesian to polar transformation (i.e. rectangular image is distorted to circular). Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Invert Intensity Invert the intensity of the color range in an image. Part of Ed Harvey Effects v3.5
Ed Harvey - Lattice Transform the image to a doutone (Primary/Secondary) lattice. Effect is not unlike a embroidery pattern. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Lens Overlay a magnifying lens. Size of lens is not configurable, but magnification is. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - MultiView Warp Distorts an image into a multifaceted view. Similar to the Fragment Blur without the blurring, or Glass Blocks without the rounded edges. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Pencil Sketch Similar to the built in Pencil Sketch effect only up to 20 times faster. Found in Ed Harvey's FastFx plugin pack.
Ed Harvey - Pixelate (Cairo Pentagonal) Pixelate an image into irregular five sided polygons. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Pixelate (Hexagonal) Pixelate an image into regular six sided polygons. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Posterize Posterize is now built in to Paint.NET. Find it in the Adjustments menu.
Ed Harvey - Ripple Applies a regular ripple distortion across the image surface. Wavelet size, shape and magnitude are all configurable. Similar to Wobble. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Seismograph Transform an image into a colored line representation. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Simplify Blur which simplifies the image by reducing color differences (and therefore fine detail). Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Single Hue Recolor an image to greyscale and a sinlge color (hue). Hue and Saturation are configurable. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Soft Saturation Enhance or reduce the amount of color saturation. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Soften Portrait Similar to the built in Soften Portrait effect only up to 40 times faster. Found in Ed Harvey's FastFx plugin pack.
Ed Harvey - Solarize Reverses the hue of shadows and highlights. No configurable parameters. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Splinter Generates a number of rays (splinters) radiating outwards from the pixel. Number of splinters, length and rotation are configurable. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Threshold Converts a range of colors to black and white based on the user set threshold. Color channel is selectable as are the minima and maxima. Part of Ed Harvey Effects v3.5
Ed Harvey - True Blur Subtle blurring effect which allows much finer control than other blurs. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Vignette Apply a black vignette to the image. Size, shape and strength are all configurable. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Vitrious Expand or contract a range of colors by specifying the Hue and Amount of change. Think of this as a subtle recoloring effect. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Weave Distort the image as if it was cut into strips and woven back together. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - White Balance Sublte recoloring effects. Specify Hue and Amount (strength) of the retinting. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
Ed Harvey - Wobble Applies a ripple distortion across the image surface. Wavelet size, shape and magnitude are all configurable. Similar to Ripple. Part of Ed Harvey Effectsv3.5. DLL contains numerous effects.
eekysam - Normal Map Renderer Renders normal maps. Has a cinematic light that which can be moved around the virtual 3D surface. Also has exponential drop-off/spread settings which can be used to modify sharpness, contrast, brightness, and angle effect (dialog is deceptively simple). Plugin is no longer being developed.
Ego Eram Reputo - CellMaker Renders x,y sized cells whose edges are entirely within a given selection. Use CellMaker Rev, the improved version.
Ego Eram Reputo - ChessFEN Draws chessboard and position from scratch or by parsing a FEN string. Requires the Chess Merida font be installed.
Ego Eram Reputo - Polaroid Frame Overlays a frame with the correct size ratios to form a polariod.
Ego Eram Reputo - Thermal Heat Map Create a thermal representation of an image where brightness becomes 'heat' and dimness becomes 'cool'.
Ego Eram Reputo - WhichSymbol / WhichSymbolPlus Character & symbol browser/writer for installed fonts. Character is rendered using the Primary color.
ejohnson0547 - RGB565 Filetype Read and write to the RGB565 or RAW565 format. Used for Android splash screens.
eladkarako - Barcode Plugin Recompiled version of the original Barcode plugin. This generate barcodes from user input. Supports Code 39, Code 39 Mod 43, Full ascii code 39 and Postnet.
Enormator - Enormators Effects The two effects are Stretch & DotAtCenter. Unavailable for download.
Enormator - Invert around primary color Invert colors around other colors.
Enormator - Primary Color Difference to Alpha Calculates the difference between the pixel and primary color. The more they are equal, the more transparency will result.
Enormator - Triangular Gradient Makes a triangular gradient in selection (or on the full image when nothing is selected) from primary to secondary color (including alpha).
Evan Wallace - Add/Remove/Recover Watermark Removed by author due to possible copyright abuses. Note: forum thread no longer exists.
Evan Wallace - BLP Converter Plugin File support for loading Blizzard Picture files (*.blp). Requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package.
evanolds - 3D Object (BETA) Wrap the canvas around a box, torus or topographical graph (with custom equation). Preview is used to drag and rotate shape. (Part of Evan's Effects.
evanolds - Conditional Hue/Saturation Adjust hue and saturation by setting range and conditions. Evan's Effects v1.1.
evanolds - Evan's Effects v1.1 Effects: Mirror over line, Conditional Hue/Saturation, Quadrilateral Reshape, Polygonal Transparency, 3D Object (BETA), Pie Chart,
evanolds - Icon, Cursor, and Animated Cursor Format Support for Icon & cursor filetypes, including animated cursors.
evanolds - Mirror Over Line Mirror an image across a vertical or horizontal line. Part of Evan's Effects.
evanolds - Octagonal/Quad reshape/matte Reshape the image or crop to an arbitrary quad or octagonal region. Part of Evan's Effects.
evanolds - Pie Chart Create a pie chart by entering category names and values. Part of Evan's Effects.
evanolds - Polygonal Transparency Create many sided polygons of transparent pixels. With options to feather edges & invert transparent areas. Part of Evan's Effects.
frankb - Photoshop file plugin Plugin for loading and saving Photoshop files. Use Photoshop PSD file plugin.
FremyCompany - Alpha 32-bit Bitmap Allows you to open and save file in 32-bit bitmap. You must rename the file to *.bmpx (to avoid conflict with the existing PDN's BMP handler). If you try to open non-BMP files, you should receive an error (24bpp bitmaps are loaded correctly)
Gaeriel - Manual Color Correction Change colors by transforming one color into another. Similar to the 'Manual Color Correction' tool in Paint Shop Pro.
GoldenCrystal - Make Transparent Make an image transparent in respect of the chosen color. In other words this is another color to alpha plugin.
gOUJOSAMMA - Normal Tools v1.1 Suite of three plugins for the creation of Normal Maps.
Gumboot - JPEG 2000 Use JPEG 2000 instead.
harold - NormalMap 1.1 Incompatable with Paint.NET 3.5x, use NormalMapPlus v1.0.
harold - PDN File Info viewer View information about a Paint.NET file (dimensions, number of layers and the version of Paint.NET used to save the image).
Hawkynt - 2D-ImageFilter Library Library of algorithms used in various emulators (VirtualGB, Mame, DOSBox, SNES9x, ZSNES, etc,). Also known as Pixel Art Scaling Plugin.
Hindol - Wavelet Haar 2-tap Performs a Haar 2-tap transformation of an image (quarters the image size makes three duplicates, performing different edge detection algorithms on each).
HiPhiSch - Fill Gaps v1.0 Fill transparent sections of a layer or selection based on the surrounding pixels.
HiPhiSch - Kill Color v1.1 Removes a color from the selected part of the image and tries to find a substitution for it by analyzing the surrounding parts.
HiPhiSch - Selective Enhancement v1.1 Spread out or push together colors close to the selected one.
HiPhiSch - Selective Toning v1.0 Apply toning corrections. With blending mode selector and alpha channel support. Similar to Advanced Color Replacement.
hollander - Monochrome Unsupported. Download links fail. Converts image to monochrome (black, white & color supported).
Hunter - Plugin Effect Installer 1.0 Simple plugin installer. Select the *.dll file to install and click Go. Easy.
I Like Pi - ASCII Art File Type Plugin ASCII art generator. Transform your image into an ascii art masterpiece!
I Like Pi - Layer Saver Standalone executable saves each layer in a Paint.NET file as a separate file.
I Like Pi - OptiPNG Updated version is available, see OptiPNG Updated. Integrates OptiPNG with Paint.NET, optimizes PNGs to make them smaller (http://optipng.sourceforge.net/). To install place both the exe and dll in Paint.NET's FileTypes folder.
I Like Pi - Text Steganography BETA Encodes hidden text within an image. The plugin is also needed to view the text. Note: Beta status.
Illnab1024 - Advanced Greyscale Desaturates an image to grayscale. RGB channel bias is individually configurable. Found in Illnab1024's Plugins
Illnab1024 - Alpha Mask Turn an image into an alpha mask. If the image has color, it is converted to greyscale. Updated to add clipboard functionality. Found in Illnab1024's Plugins
Illnab1024 - Alpha Mask Import (1.2) Turn an image into an alpha mask. If the image has color, it is converted to greyscale. Updated to add clipboard functionality. Find a new version in Illnab1024's Plugins
Illnab1024 - Channel Mixer Greyscale Mix the Red, Green, and Blue channels separately as you convert an image to greyscale. Also known as Advanced Greyscale. Illnab1024's Plugins.
Illnab1024 - Cutout Effect Broken. Use the newer version in Illnab1024's Plugins.
Illnab1024 - Cutout Effect Broken. Part of Illnab1024's Plugins
Illnab1024 - Flip Flips the selected pixels horizontally or vertically. Replaced by a later version: BoltBait's Plugin Pack.
Illnab1024 - Google Image Search Allows you to use Google Image Search directly in Paint.NET. Appears to be broken in that no search results are returned.
Illnab1024 - Gradient Plugin v2.0 Apply a variety of configurable gradients. Co-Authored by BoltBait.
Illnab1024 - Grid Maker v2.0 Superseded. Use MadJik's Gridmaker.
Illnab1024 - Illnab1024's Plugins. (v1.1) Alpha Mask, Cutout Effect, Advanced Greyscale, Point Warp, Polar to Rect.
Illnab1024 - Point Warp Distort an image by stretching it toward or away from a specified point. Found in Illnab1024's Plugins
Illnab1024 - Point Warp / Engorged smudge Similar to the Bulge effect but in the horizontal plane instead of the vertical. Find a new version in Illnab1024's Plugins.
Illnab1024 - Polar to Rect Transfomation of polar coordinates to cartesian. In effect this creates a wrap around distortion of the original image. Found in Illnab1024's Plugins
Itso - Anaglyphs Creations of anaglyphs (3D stereo pictures).
Ivn - RawReader Dcraw based RAW file reader. DCRaw has been recompiled as a *.dll (32 and 64 bit).
jchunn - Bricks Creates brick patterns with mortar. Jesse Chunn Plugin Pack.
jchunn - Color Replace Color filter with the ability to fine tune the color and alpha channels.
jchunn - Focal Point Blurs from a given focal point in an image. Jesse Chunn Plugin Pack.
jchunn - Jesse Chunn Plugin Pack Effects: Soften edges, Focal point, Stencil, Color Replace, Varicose, Bricks.
jchunn - Soften Edges Detect 'rough' edges and softens them. Jesse Chunn Plugin Pack.
jchunn - Stencil Convert an image (or selection) into a two color image similar to a stencil. Jesse Chunn Plugin Pack.
jchunn - Varicose Wibbly line creator. Jesse Chunn Plugin Pack.
John Stewien - Stewien Filters Apply one of five filters to your image. Filters are Dilate, Kuwahara Filter, Kuwahara Filter Modified, To Angle and Transparency By Color Subtraction.
Joshua Bell - PCX Plug-In Load & save PCX images.
Jotaf - Grim Color Reaper Remove a color (i.e. background) from an image while maintaining the alpha information.
jsonchiu - Anti-alias v1.5 Use to smooth edges, keeping them clear, not blurred.
jsonchiu - Bevel Plugin v1.4 Applies a beveled edge to an image. Thread contains another (later) version which bevels irregular shapes.
jsonchiu - Diagonal Lines v2.0 Renders diagonal lines, frequency, brush width, antialias level & angle are all configurable. DLL compiled by EER (21 Feb 2013) from posted source as download link has died.
jxp - Batch Processor - PROTOTYPE Removed by Rick Brewster. Prototype batch processor. Forum thread no longer exists.
jxp - Low Color Filetype (bmp, gif, png) Save images as 16 color bitmaps or gifs. Previously known as '16 Colors'.
jxp - Palette from image tool Extracts the palette from the current image & saves it to (or creates) a paint.net palette file.
jxp - Posterize Alpha Based on the standard Posterize adjustment, with enhancements to also change the Alpha channel.
kbarni - Camera lens distortion correction Correct the barrel or pincushion distortions in digital photos. AKA Lens Distortion
KrisVDM - Average Blur Blur which averages all pixels within a certain radius. Each pixel counts as much as any other. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
KrisVDM - Color Accent Retint an image towards greyscale using the specified hue to control the recoloring. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
KrisVDM - Cyanotype Recolor an image to white + cyan. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
KrisVDM - Drop Shadow Superseded by a later release Drop Shadow & Effects.
KrisVDM - Drop Shadow Creates a highly configurable shadow around an object. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
KrisVDM - Duotone Ink on Paper Tint an image to black and a combination of with two selected hues. Does not change white areas. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
KrisVDM - Duotone Light Tint an image to black and a combination of with two selected hues. Does not change partially transparent areas. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
KrisVDM - Fade Edge Fades the edge towards transparent. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
KrisVDM - Gradient A four-color, non-linear 'Gradient' effect with high quality color dithering. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
KrisVDM - Grayscale on Colored Paper Recolors the image greyscale and the specified color. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
KrisVDM - Gridlines Draws a grid with horizontal and vertical lines. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
KrisVDM - KrisVDM's Plugin Pack Plugin pack contains installer and a DLL file. Run installer to selectively install effects in this pack. Effects: Drop Shadow, Duotone Light, Duotone Ink on Paper, Cyanotype, Sepia 2, Grayscale on Colored Paper, Monochrome Ink on Paper, Average Blur, Smart Blur, Color Accent, Fade Edge, Gradient, Gridlines, Object Align.
KrisVDM - Monochrome Ink on Paper Recolors image a single specified hue. Transparent areas are left unchanged. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
KrisVDM - Object Align Realigns an object within a selection vertically, horizontally, left, right or centrally (and combinations). Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
KrisVDM - Sepia 2 Apply a sepia filer to an image. Configurable intensity. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
KrisVDM - Smart Blur Similar to the built in Surface Blur. Part of Kris VDM's Plugin Pack.
kshotts - Sparkle Glitter Generate glowing spheres, diamonds, and flares, with lots of parameters. Replaced by MadJiks Sparkle Effect
kshotts - Sparkle Stars Generate stars. Replaced by MadJiks Sparkle Effect
L3ron - PDN OpenSearch Custom Tool Bar Add the Paint.NET Search Engine (by Google) to Firefox or Internet Explorer toolbar.
Lord Crc - Whitepoint Correction Color correction, based off of a neutral point in the image.

[Ego Eram Reputo]

List of Plugins by Author M-Z
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maccas - Add Depth Two plugins which add (the appearance of) depth to a 2D shape on a transparent layer. Add Depth adds an apparent thickness by adding a 'trail'. Offset Shadow is a displacement plugin for moving a shadow after it's been created.
MadDugan - Spritesheet Export Plugin Saves a multilayered sprite sheet to a single layered file with the layers positioned side-by-side.
MadJik - Add Noise + Adds digital 'noise' to a selection. Included in the native 'Add Noise' effect. Note: forum thread no longer exists.
MadJik - AutoChroma Generates fill or unfilled circles. Has preview issues. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Autochrome Noise Autochrome is a technique to recolor photos using colored grain or noise. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Bars Generate colored bars from a border of the image with a random length. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Buttons Create beautiful colored buttons with or without text & symbols. Now with border width & text AA. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Color Aberration Allows you to move separately RGB channels in % or in pixels. It could be a used to create 3D pictures. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Color Modulo Creates a highly colored and configurable banded multiple gradient. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Color Zoom Blur Based on the zoom blur effect, but you are able to handle the color channels separately. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Displacement Displace an image in X and Y directions. Has rendering issues. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Distorting Mirror Effect similar to the distorting mirror you find at a fairground. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Donut Distortion Distort the area between two concentric circles. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Frames Wrap your image in a customized frame. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - GenTree Generates lifelike trees and branches. See also the TreeGen effect. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Gradient Blur A combination of the Gaussian blur & gradient effects. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Gravity Treats pixels as if they were sand, dragging them down until they have supporting pixels under them. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Grid Maker Draws grids, also checkerboard and dots. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Hexagonal Grid Creates a hexagonal grid. Includes brushwidth & Antialias controls. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - KaleidGen Generate kaleidoscopes from scratch using selectable auto generated shapes. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Kaleidoscope Turn images into kaleidoscopes. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Lens Flare Adds light induced flares to the bright spots in your image. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Light Rays Draws 'rays' of light from the center (can be offset). Uses alternated triangles as the rays. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - MadJik' Plugin Pack (aka Magical Plugins Megapack) Over 60 effects: Color Zoom Blur, Gradient Blur, Color Aberation, Reverse Colors, Distorting Mirror, Donut Distortion, Gravity, Kaleidoscope, Magnifier, Motion Sharpen, Oblique, Page Curl, Panelling, Polar Transformation, Seamless Texture Maker, Sine Wave distort, Tiles Reflection XL, Tube Effect, TwistZ, Water Reflection, Waves, Wet Floor Reflection, Auto Chrome noise, Bars, Buttons, Frames, GenTree (TreeGen), Grid Maker, Hexagonal Grid, KaleidGen, Light Rays, Mazes (2), Randome Lines, Rosaces, Shapes, Sparkles, Spiral, SpiroGraph, SpiroShapes, Splashes, Volutes, Majority Color, Over Liner, Star Glow, Moire, Perlin Texture, Radial Colors, Rainbow Twist Colors, Autochrome, Color modulo, Displacement, Lens Flare, Matrice, Nebulous, NewtonFractal, Vibrato, XY Coords.
MadJik - Magnifier (Lens+) An evolution of the Ed Harvey's Lens effect, with enhanced features & options. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Majority Color Each pixel takes the value of its neighbors that have the majority. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Matirce An emboss type effect with coloring options. Can be used to fake metalic sheen and edge detection. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Moire This texture plugin replaces the selection (or the active layer if no selection) with colourful concentric rings. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Motion Sharpen Directional sharpening. Think of it as the natural opposite of Motion Blur. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Nebulous Creates a brightly colored rainbow halo which appears pinched up in the centre. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - NewtonFractal Fractal generator. Creates colored flower-type petals infilled with colored noise. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Oblique Effect Incline images vertically horizontally or both. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Overliner Scans the image to find breaks in the colors between pixels. If the break is from dark to light then the pixel is replaced with the light color (otherwise the dark color). Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Page Curl Creates a curl on a corner of your image, just like a curling page. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Panelling Effect Allows the moving of selection, vertically, horizontally or both. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Perlin Texture Creates brilliantly colored patterns. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Polar Transformation Translate image from rectangular to polar coordinates and vice versa. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Radial Colors Predefined formulas (sinusoid curves) define and mix Red, Green, Blue colors. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Rainbow Twist Rainbow twist the three basic color Red, Green, Blue. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Random lines Generator Create/add straight & curved lines. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Random mazes Two plugins to render horizontal or diagonal mazes with configurable size, wall chance, brush width & more. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Reverse Colors Selectively reverse the values of any of the RGBA channels. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Rosaces Generate simple or complex 'roses' (symmetrical patterns like a mathematical representation of a rose/flower). Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Seamless Texture Maker An updated version of BoltBait's Seamless Texture Helper. Create textures with no apparent edge when tiled. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Shapes Render a repeating shape. User selects the increase/decrease step, speed, etc, Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Sine Curves Use Equation from Curtis' Plugin Pack.
MadJik - Sine Wave Distort Uses sine function to apply a horizontal &/or vertical shift. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Sparkles Effect Scans the image to find the bright highlights then adds some sparkle to them. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Spiral Simple spiral plugin. Use it to create/add spirals to your images. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - SpiroGraph Draws alternated centered polygons and rotates/reduces each of them. Uses Primary & Secondary colors. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - SpiroShapes Draws repeating polygon shapes to create a more complex shape. Similar to spirograph. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Splashes Create filled or unfilled splashes (think unusual closed polygon shapes). Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Star Glow Use it to add some high lustre sparkle to your image. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Stars Effect Create polygon based multipoint stars. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Tiles Reflection XL Enhanced version of 'Tiles Reflection' from Paint.net v3.1. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - TreeGen Generates tree-type trunks and branches. For a more realistic effect, see the GenTree effect. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Tube Effect (aka tube oblique?) Distort an image as if you wrapped it around a cylinder. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - TwistZ Transform an image by applying a spiral twist. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Vibrato Generates colored moire rings within the colored parts of an image. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Volutes Draws random curves. The curve is pre-calculated and then resized to fit in the image, so start and end points are at random positions. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Water Reflection Render a reflection as if your image was reflected in water. Updated. See Wet Floor Reflection. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Waves Wave distortion effect. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - Wet Floor Reflection Renders a reflection of an object as if it was standing on a wet floor. Magical Plugins Megapack.
MadJik - XY Coords Creates a grid with the text giving the position of the cell in this grid with X,Y coords. Useful to understand the transformation done by other distort effects. Magical Plugins Megapack.
Martin Osieka - Im(age)PDF filetype Allows Paint.NET to save images as PDF documents.

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*NEW* Martin Osieka - Measure Selection Take measurements of an active selection or the whole layer. Option include setting the unit, dpi and scale. Useful for mapping or technical drawings.

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Martin Osieka - Paper Kaleidocycles This plugin allows the creation of nets for kaleidocycles. A kaleidocycle is a ring of pyramids which can be twisted inwards and outwards to show different sides of the pyramids.
Martin Osieka - Turbulent.Circles Renders concentric circles ranging from smooth to wavy. Useful for creating textures like smoke rings, lava, flower petals, etc…,.
Martin Osieka - Turbulent.Effects Two plugins to render lines and circles combined with turbulence. Useful to create textures like marble, wood, smoke rings, flowers, etc…,.
Martin Osieka - Turbulent.Lines Render lines combined with turbulence with results ranging from smooth lines to chaotic waves. Useful for createing textures like waves, horizons, marble, wood grain, smoke, etc…,.
Martin Osieka - XCF filetype Load and save images in GIMP native file format XCF (and its packed variants XCFGZ and XCFBZ2). To install, copy the two files into the /FileTypes/ folder.
MaR-V-iN - AlphaSpace Converts a white/black background into transparency. Recognizes shadows and makes them semi-transparent.
mcamp14 - Starry Sky Creates a starry sky (utilizes Pixellab). Renders a handful of stars on a balck background. No configurable parameters.
mchansy - Vantage Preview Images (.VBP) Support for Vantage Sat Receiver Preview Images.
MichaelVinther - Increase Local Contrast Improve badly lit photos or dramatize dull photos.
MichaelVinther - Laplacian pyramid filter Improve the overall illumination of photos, typically when the scene is in shadow. Can smooth or enhance details in a photo without smoothing edges.
MichaelVinther - Texturize effect Add a texture to a photo or image by changing the pixels brightness (based on the gradient of the texture).
Mike Ryan - Alias Removes antialiasing. Useful prior to feathering. Part of Mike Ryan's Plugins
Mike Ryan - Brightness/ Darkness to Alpha Turns Brightness (or Darkness) into pure transparent goodness! Can be found in Mike Ryan's Plugins. Topic is locked by request: use Color to Alpha.
Mike Ryan - Color to Alpha Advanced (PR1) Adjust the alpha level of your selected color while similar colors are adjusted as well. Has known bugs. Alternative: Tanel's Color to Alpha
Mike Ryan - Color Trimming Used for color correction in photographs when too much of a particular color is present. Removes a defined range of a particular color allowing for more vibrant colors to be displayed. Part of Mike Ryan's Plugins
Mike Ryan - Input to Output Adjust the value of one color channel (Input) by the value of another channel (Output). Useful for making alpha masks, removing color, etc.. Part of Mike Ryan's Plugins
Mike Ryan - Invert Alpha Inverts the Alpha Channel based off of your set tolerance. Part of Mike Ryan's Plugins
Mike Ryan - Isolate Black / White Generates a B&W copy of the layer then applies it as an alpha mask.
Mike Ryan - Mike Ryan's Plugins Effects: Alias, Color Trimming, Input to Output, Brightness/ Darkness to Alpha, Invert Alpha, Silhouette Plus.
Mike Ryan - Silhouette Plus Converts the entire canvas into your selected color while preserving the alpha levels of each pixel. Part of Mike Ryan's Plugins
MISIIM - Flip Horizontal Superseded by BoltBait's version: Flip. Forum topic no longer exists.
MJW - Average Color of Selection Averages the color over a selection.
MJW - Posterize in HSV Space Enhanced posterize effect that converts the color into HSV space, truncates the values, then converts back to RGB.
MJW - Render Color Wheel Draws a HSV color wheel, centered in the current selection.
MKT - Shape3D Wrap your image around a 3D shape (with appropriate lighting).
moc426 - Align Object Align an object on a transparent layer to the corners, sides or center of the layer or selection. A newer version with it's own submenu is available as part of KrisVDM's Plugin Pack
moc426 - Border / Stroke Effect Draw a border around image or selection with your primary color.
moc426 - Fractal Mandelbrot Create, configure and color the Mandelbrot fractal. This effect is now Included in Paint.NET minus the colorization options (Effects > Render > Mandelbrot Fractal). This effect can be installed alongside the native version and found under Effects > Render > Fractal: Mandelbrot.
MosaicManiac - Mosaic Maniac (Collage Paint) Paint with whole collections of images! Creates a unique non repeatable pattern of images form a directory of images. Menu title is Collage Paint.
Mr X - OptiPNG (Updated) Updated version of OptiPNG (fixes some security vulnerabilities). Functionality is same: compresses the PNG filetype when saving images. Both the OptiPngFileType.dll and optipng.exe need to be in the FileTypes directory.
myxlplyx - Shape(ray, arrow, circle, etc) Draw rays, arrows & circles with 'tv snow' effect (similar to chalk drawing) added to the shapes.
myxlplyx - Zigzag ray (aka eShape_umabob) Creates shapes/lines using scales. Appears in Effects menu as 'eShape_umabob' for some strange reason.
n d - Colour Chop Similar to other colour cutting effects, but this creates a smoother transition from transparent <-> opaque
n d - Colourblind Simulation Ensure your image is legible for colour blind.
n d - Edgemaster Edge detection effect.
n d - Shaped Gradient v1.5 Creates a gradient in a multitude of shapes. Round, square, conical, linear and also elliptic, trapezoid, hexagonal & more…
n d - Trail 3d Creates a shaped gradient 'trail' from the object towards a configurable destination point. Gradient color is editable.
naylorjs - XPM File Type plugin XPM support in Paint.NET. Note: doesn't handle every XPM option.
ncoquard - Noise Reduction Noise reduction plugin, written specifically to reduce the artifacts in JPG images.
Neil Cassidy - Average Color (HSL) Averages the color of a selection with regard to human perception of color.
Neil Cassidy - Eigen Blur v1.3 Improved Gaussian blur effect which uses brand new convolution code.
Neil Cassidy - Segment Image Analyzes image and groups pixels that are relatively close together in the image and have roughly the same color.
Nem - VTF Plug-In (1.0.4) VTF file support. File format used by the Source engine (Half-Life 2 etc.).
NisseBosseLasse - Twainable Add TWAIN support for scanners. Should be compatible with all scanners that are TWAIN compliant. Place both Twainable.dll and EZTW32.dll in the /Effects/ folder.
niwax - Apply Texture Applies a texture to any selected object, saving the brightness.
niwax - PNG Preprocessor Optimizes image color range in order to reduce the saved PNG file size. Size of the file can be 40-80% of the original size.
null54 - EA FSH Filetype Loads and saves the FSH format used by Electronic Arts games.
null54 - JPEG 2000 Loads and saves JPEG 2000 images, superseding the old JPEG 2000 plugin.
null54 - Optimized JPEG Optimizes JPEG images using jpegtran. The Visual C++ 2010 SP1 runtime is required (x86 for a 32-bit OS, or x64 for a 64-bit OS). To install place both the exe and dll in Paint.NET's FileTypes folder.
null54 - Paint Shop Pro FileType Allows Paint.Net to load and save Jasc's Paint Shop Pro format.
null54 - PdnFF Allow filters from Adobe's Filter Factory (for Photoshop) to be run by Paint.NET.
null54 - Photoshop Brush Load and save brushes used by Adobe® Photoshop®. Brushes sampled from image data are supported, dynamically computed brushes are ignored.
null54 - Photoshop Pattern Load Pattern files used by Photoshop's Fill command. Only Grayscale, Indexed and RGB mode patterns (8-bit and 16-bit) are supported.
null54 - Photoshop Swatch Converter Converts Photoshop color swatches (ACO files) to Paint.NET. Swatches with more than 96 colors are split into multiple parts. RGB, HSB, CMYK and Grayscale color modes are supported.
null54 - PSFilterPDN Run (some) Photoshop Filters using Paint.NET.
null54 - WebP Filetype Load and save Google's WebP filetype. To install place all three dlls from the download in the FileTypes folder.
OtherFarm - OtherFarmColorReplacer Remove or change a color or a range of colors. Numerous options including color selection and transparency.
ownage - Toon Filter Extracts pencil / line type drawing from an image (based on edge detection).
P13Darksight - IntenColor Takes the intensity of the current pixel & performs mathematical operations on it to adjust the color.
pamkkkkk - Take screen shots and paint it in Paint.NET Screen shot utility to take screen images and send them to Paint.NET.
Pebal - RAW File Dcraw based raw file reader.
Pebal - Smart Sharpen Dedicated to sharpening images after reduction size. Uses an adaptive algorithm, optimized for maximum reduction of halo effect.
person_321 - Invert Alpha Deleted by Author as another plugin of this nature exists: use Invert Alpha.
person_321 - Invert Channels Invert the intensity of any of the RGB channels. Person_321's Texture & Color Plugins
person_321 - Person_321's texture and color plugins Effects: Invert Channels, Rainbow loom, Sound wave & X Rainbow bars.
person_321 - Rainbow Loom Renders a pre-defined pattern. Person_321's Texture & Color Plugins
person_321 - Sound Wave Renders a wave pattern. Person_321's Texture & Color Plugins
person_321 - X Rainbow bars Renders horizontal bars of rainbow hues. Person_321's Texture & Color Plugins
PhilipLB - Basic morphologic operations Performs basic morphologic operations: dilate and erode. Dilatation is a simple way to remove scratches and noise from a uniform background. Erode is similar to the Median Blur effect.
PhilipLB - Egalize Egalize modifies the colors, so they are used in the same amount.
PhilipLB - Mexican Hat Edge Detect A simple Mexican Hat edge detection filter.
PhilipLB - Normalize Normalize stretches the histogram (entire color range is used).
pleabo - Kaleidoscope Effect Generate kaleidoscopic effects. Has center point selector and a source angle rotator. Also known as DPL Kaleidoscope.
pleabo - Night Vision Transform a scene into a green filtered 'Night Vision' version.
pleska - Gradient Effect Gradient fill between current primary and secondary colors in 5 basic types: Vertical, Horizontal, Radial (from center of rect out), Diagonal and Reverse-Diagonal.
pleska - Photo Flood Fill Takes an image and 'flood-fill' it into the selection region, repeating it over and over.
ploogle - FlySwatter Applies filter to make image look shiny & metallic, or perhaps psychedelic.
Powerslave UK - Paint.net Plugin Installer Removed due to license issues. Forum thread no longer exists.
Prillan - FileType TP4 File support for *.TP4 files as used by the game RollerCoaster Tycoon.
pyjo - Basic Antialias v1.1 Reduces aliasing of an object which borders transparent pixels without altering the sharpness of the edge. No configurable options hence no dialog appears when the effect is run.
pyjo - Power Stretch 2.0 Beta Stretch images in numerous ways including vertical, horizontal and bulge. Note: Beta
pyrochild - Borders N' Shapes v1.6 Draws a variety of borders and shapes. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - Color Match v1.0 Uses an existing image as a color template to recolor your image. Works best on photos. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - Curves+ v2.10 A more powerful version of the Curves adjustment that comes with Paint.NET. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - Film v2.0 Filter an image to give it grain & intensity. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - Frosted Glass+ v1.5 This effect is now included in Paint.NET from version 3.07+. Forum thread no longer exists.
pyrochild - Gradient Bars v3.0 Creates bars of varying width, angle and thickness. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - Gradient Blocks Transform an image into a pixellated version with gradient filled blocks. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - Gradient Mapping v2.2 Create a custom gradient and map it to your image based on any supported input channel. One of the primary uses is to create a multi-colored gradient. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - Grid Warp Distort an image by overlaying a warping grid which has dragable intersection nodes. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - Jitter v3.0 Jitters' each row of pixels by a random amount, giving a shimmy type effect. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - Liquify Similar to Photoshop's Liquify or GIMP's IWarp. Compatible with Photoshop's mesh files. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - Outline Object v2.6 Place a border around object/area. Note: object must be surrounded by transparency. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - Pixelate+ v1.0 Enhanced pixelate effect, adds a new sampling mode (the one GIMP uses) as well as the ability to use non-square cells. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - pyrochild plugins Effects: Curves+, Borders 'N Shapes, Gradient Bars, Film, Jitter, Outline Object, Stitch, Scriptlab, Gradient Mapping, Splatter, Pixelate+, Color Match, Random Effect, Random Shape Fill, Smudge, Trail, Gradient Blocks, Twist, Liquify, Grid Warp.
pyrochild - Random Effect v1.2 Chooses a random plugin (or built-in effect), and renders it with randomized settings. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - Random Shape Fill v1.0 Draws random (predefined) shapes on the canvas. 17 shape modes & 9 color modes plus many options. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - ScriptLab v2.4 Create compilations of other Paint.NET effects, adjustments, and plugins. You can save, load, and share your scripts. Includes Batch Processor. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - Smudge v2.2 Use custom brushes (*.png format) to smudge along the mouse path. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - Splatter v1.5 Create paths similar to dripping paint. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - Stitch Distorts base image with a 'splintered' appearance. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - Trail Echos' an object on an otherwise transparent layer, so that it appears to have a 'trail'. Pyrochild's Plugins
pyrochild - Twist Twist a portion of an image. Configurable size & many other parameters. Pyrochild's Plugins
r2d2rigo - XNB format Loads XNA 4 uncompressed Texture2D & XNBs compiled for Windows or Windows Phone. No save option. To install, copy all four DLL files to the /FileTypes/ folder.
Radobot - Heightmap Transforms an image to a heightmap. Imagine shining a light on an uneven surface. Lightness of each pixel represents it's height.
Radobot - Hide / Reveal Steganography Hide (and reveal) images within another image. Similar in concept to BoltBait's Steganography plugin with more options.
recursor - Animation Helper v0.81 Allows you to view any sequence of animations within a sprite sheet.
Red ochre - Alpha-Threshold Allows manipulation of transparency (Alpha) in a layer which already has a range of alpha values. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack

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*NEW* Red ochre - Bevel Object Apply different shaped bevels to an object, with either parallel or perspective lighting at a full range of angles. Bevels types: convex round, inset convex, convel bevel, convex chamfer, double convex, convex linear-flat, convex flat-linear, concave round, inset concave, flat.

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Red ochre - Clipwarp Deforms a clipboard image 'around' an object. Useful for creating glass and metallic effects.
Red ochre - Composition tool Tool to help with cropping/rotating of photos (i.e. composition grids to help line up important features). Also has configurable aspect ratio with a range of preset sizes. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Red ochre - Contour Splits an image into bands based on the tone value, with a variety of colouring options. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Red ochre - Earths and Greys Simplifies an image based on tonal value and recolours it with a choice of palettes. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Red ochre - Gradients Galore Create a wide variety of gradient effects. Many options including choice of shapes, transition methods, variable dithering, angle slider (rotation around canvas centre), HSV rainbows. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Red ochre - Highlight Creates the twinkly highlights you find in a photo that is taken towards the sun, highlights on water or metallic text. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Red ochre - Noisechoice Add noise, with a range of choices including anti-aliasing to transparency. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Red ochre - Object Edges Produces a range of outline/bevel effects on objects. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Red ochre - Object2color Recolour opaque objects with anti-aliased edges on a transparent layer. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Red ochre - Overblur Effect useful for making textures or as a passable sharpen effect. You can compare the blurred picture to the original and choose how much of that change to apply. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Red ochre - Psychocolour Produce a large range of psychedelic colour effects. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Red ochre - Recolour choice Presents multiple methods to select and replace a colour. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Red ochre - Red Ochre's Plugin Pack Alpha Threshold, Composition Tool, Contour, Earths&Greys, Gradients Galore, Highlight, Noisechoice, Object2color, Object edge, Overblur, Psychocolor, Recolor choice, Selection2clear, Squirkle, Squirklewarp, Tweak edges.
Red ochre - Selection2clear Makes the selection transparent, whilst leaving the selection active. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Red ochre - Squirkle Render 'squirkle' shapes from rounded lozenge through circle to square. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Red ochre - Squirkle Warp Magnifies and distorts 'squirkular' (square/circle) shapes. Part of Red Ochre's Plugin Pack
Red ochre - Tweak edges Detects abrupt changes in tone and produces outlines from these tonal changes.
Red ochre - Tweak Transparency Thicken outlines, set transparency minima & maxima, bevels & shadow/halo effects
Rick Brewster - Benchmark Utility (PdnBench) Superseded by a later release. Forum thread no longer exists.
Rick Brewster - Distortion Effects (4 effects) The effects Bulge, Polar Inversion, Tile Reflection & Twist are now included Paint.NET as of version 2.70+
Rick Brewster - Glow effect Apply a glow effect to a given selection. Included Paint.NET 2.70+
Rick Brewster - HD Photo plugin - BETA Support for HD imaging. No longer supported. See JPEG XR filetype plugin
Rick Brewster - PdnBench for Paint.NET v3.0 Superseded by new version
Rick Brewster - PdnBench for Paint.NET v3.20 Obsolete Paint.NET benchmarking utility (i.e. a system speedtest using Paint.NET). Forum thread no longer exists.
rmtew - IFF filetype Uses the SDLimage library to extend support to the IFF filetype.
romein - Multi Color Gradient Create a Linear, Radial, or Square multi-colored gradient with custom colors, direction and opacity.
romein - Psychedelic Filter creates a variety of psychedelic color effects.
romein - Text Pro (free trial) Impressive Word Art package for Paint.NET. Registration is required to remove watermark protection.
romein - Unsharp Mask Corrects blurring introduced during photographing, scanning, resampling, or printing.
rpetrich - RawLoader Decode RAW camera images and make them available for use in Paint.NET. Requires use of installer or plugin + DCRaw.exe. Download links are not working.
rwp80 - Color Stretch Color Stretch v1.0 stretch color values of pixels within specified threshold limits. Part of Color Target Plugin Pack
rwp80 - Color Target Color Target v1.3 retains pixels of a similar color and brightness, all other pixels are made transparent. Part of Color Target Plugin Pack
rwp80 - Color Target Plugin Pack Effects: Color Target, Color Stretch & Target Panel
rwp80 - Target Panel Target Panel v1.0 advanced color manipulator. Part of Color Target Plugin Pack
ryanr23 - Shadow effect Generates shadows with angle and transparency options. Like Google Map.
Sepcot - Barcode Plugin Generate barcodes from user input. Original has been recompiled by eladkarako find it here Barcode Plugin (recompiled). This version is therefore flagged as depreciated.
Sepcot - Clouds Plugin Creates cloud like effects using the Perlin Noise routine.
SeriousSam - Color Channel Mixer RGBA channel mixer with addition and scaling.
SeriousSam - Convolution Effect Modifies each pixel by comparison to neighboring pixels. 3x3 matrix is fully configurable.
SeriousSam - SpriteSheet Animation v1.3 Test and design Sprite Sheets.
ShayEr - Image To Code (AKA Image To C) Convert image to C/C++ data structure.
silverhammer - Advanced Color Replacement Recolors every pixel a different amount based on how similar it is to the secondary color. Also known as Advanced Recoloring.
silverhammer - Isolate Lineart Converts a B/W image (like a pencil drawing) to a 'black and transparent' image.
Simon Brown - AlphaMask Brush v1.7 Draw an alpha mask directly onto an image. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - Animated Image 1.7 Open and save animated GIFs & PNGs, one frame into each layer. Simon Brown's Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - ASCII Art Obsolete, use: Another ASCII Art File Type Plugin.
Simon Brown - AVI Frame Importer: AVIImport Allows Paint.NET to open an AVI (movie) file and choose which frame to open as an image. Files should be supported by the Windows AVI library. NB not all video files will work.
Simon Brown - Bullet No longer supported: renders bullet holes in your image.
Simon Brown - CannedBrush 1.5 Automates the process of creating repeat brush strokes for Custom Brushes plugin. Removed by author.
Simon Brown - Channels v2.0 Modify colors by channel (Red, Green Blue & Alpha). Formerly InvertColours+. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - Checkboard Draws a checkboard similar to the one used by Paint.NET to show transparency.
Simon Brown - ConditionalPen 1.1 Provides a brush that will only function when a pixel is within the given min/max threshold. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - Create Image-Map Provides an interface for constructing an HTML image map. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - Custom Brushes 5.1.5 Obsolete. Use CustomBrushesMini.
Simon Brown - CustomBrushesMini 1.0 RC3 Superseded. Use CustomBrushesMini.
Simon Brown - CustomBrushesMini v1.0 Draw with customized brushes. Replaces previous incarnations of Custom Brushes. Simon Brown's Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - CustomFrame 1.5 Add a pre-created frame to your image.
Simon Brown - CustomTexture v1.0 Apply a custom texture to an image while maintaining the saturation. Simon Brown's Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - Desktop Background Preview Allows you to preview potential images as a desktop wallpaper. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - Detect plugin problems v1.0 External program which diagnoses why effect and filetype plugins may not be working.
Simon Brown - DragFrom Lets you upload images using drag and drop. Requires a capable browser such as Firefox and site such as Imgur or min.us.
Simon Brown - EasyWatermark Superseded by new release, use PDNWatermark.
Simon Brown - Editable Text v1.0 Note: Beta. Alternative text-tool that includes editable text. Works by using Steganography to store the details of the text in the text layer. Formerly: Re-Editable Text (BETA). Simon Brown's Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - Extend Border v1.3 Extends the edge of a layer inwards the amount specified.
Simon Brown - Film Noir Plugin Give your pictures a Film Noir style by desaturating colors. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - Find Edges Finds all edges in an image and convert the pixels black - the rest will be turned white. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - Fire Plugin For rendering fire/flames. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - Flags Select a flag & render it into the selection (needs a working internet connection). Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - JPEG Effect Distorts an image by running it through the JPEG codec. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - Make Colour Transparent Obsolete. Use Color to Alpha Advanced.
Simon Brown - NormalMapPlus v1.0 Updated version of NormalMap 1.1. Uses the Sobel Filter from AMD's Render Monkey's normal map example to calculate the first order derivatives of the image (think: emboss). Light angle is adjustable.
Simon Brown - Olden 1.5 Applies and aged look to your image. Simon Brown's Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - Paint.NET Effect Installation Right-Click Menu Option Simplifies plugin installation by adding an 'install' option to right click menu on plugin ZIP file.
Simon Brown - Paint.NET Search for Firefox Obsolete. Use PDN OpenSearch Custom Toolbar.
Simon Brown - PaletteConverter BETA Converts and edits palettes including Paint.NET, PSP and Kuler palettes. Will only save Paint.NET palettes. Beta.
Simon Brown - PDNWatermark Add watermarks to your image. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - PixelatedFrame Adds a frame to an image that is a pixelated version of the image itself. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - PixelLab Beta 1 Provides a simplified programming language in which to create effects/plugins. Note: Beta status.
Simon Brown - Polygon Tool A line tool - which will draw another line from the last drawing position to the current position.
Simon Brown - Printer+ v1.0 Enhanced Paint.NET printing interface.
Simon Brown - Resource translator v1.0 BETA Obsolete. Designed to aid development of Paint.NET Language packs. Replaced by Strings.resx by Paint.NET developer Rick Brewster
Simon Brown - Sabrown100 Plugin Pack Superseded by later release: Simon Brown's Plugin Pack. Forum thread no longer exists.
Simon Brown - Silhoette Plugin v2.1 Silhouettes images with partial transparency; turns the RGB to 000000 while preserving alpha. Silhouette(sp?)
Simon Brown - Simon Brown's Legacy Pack There is no forum thread for this plugin pack. Find it as a link in one of the effect threads. Effects: Alpha Mask Brush, Bullet, Channels, Conditional Pen, Create Image Map, Desktop Background Preview, FilmNoir, FindEdges, Fire, Flags, ImageShack Upload, JPEG Effect, PDN Watermark, Pixelated Frame, Stock Library, Subtle Effect, Texture, Transitional Brush. Filetypes: AviFile, AVIImport & SVGImport. Note: the file SBCommon.dll is required to be installed with these effects.
Simon Brown - Simon Brown's Plugin Pack Effects: CustomBrushesMini, ThatOtherApp, Printer+, Find Edges, Olden, Editable Text, Extend Border, DragFrom. Filetypes: Animated Image. Note: the file SBCommon.dll is required to be installed with these effects.
Simon Brown - StockLibrary1.5 Manage your stock images from within Paint.NET. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - SubtleEffect Allows you to select a plugin and independently adjust the opacity that the effect will hold over the original image. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - SVGImport Adds support for SVG files. Files will be rasterized by the conversion process. Note: requires InkScape be installed.
Simon Brown - Texture Add a custom texture to the image on the canvas. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - That other app v1.0 Adds an item to the tools menu which allows you to shell out to another application (GIMP, Photoshop, etc..,) to edit the current layer. On Save & Close the changes will appear in Paint.NET.
Simon Brown - Threshold The threshold effect will change all pixels over the specified number to white, and the rest black. This version is obsolete, use Ed Harvey's version instead Ed Harvey Effects
Simon Brown - TransitionalBrush Allows users to select two colours and have a brush that gradually changes colour between them. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
Simon Brown - Upload to... V2.0 Upload images direct to the internet from within Paint.Net. Requires resource file SBCommon.dll to reside in the Effects directory. Found in Simon Brown's Legacy Plugin Pack.
smax - Bilateral Filter Edge preserving noise reduction and blur. Crashes Paint.NET. Requires user to run MSI installer which installs the effect and creates a sub-folder /ru to house resources (Bilateral.resources.dll and Bilateral.resources.dll.VisualState.xml).
Smoke_Dev420 - Toon Shader Simplifies image colors using code based on DirectX toon shaders.
Spikehead777 - 3D Heightmap v1.0 Two plugins which take current image as a height map & shines a light on it, returning the intensity of reflected rays as another image (similar to Emboss).
spongey437 - Rainbow Fills selection with a rainbow colored gradient.
spongey437 - Simple Lines Plugin Draw vertical /horizontal lines across a selection.
sradforth - Advanced Rotate Rotate an image or selection from the center with options on how the devoid pixels will be treated (clamp, wrap, mirror, Primary Color, Secondary color, untouched). Included in Stu's Effects.
sradforth - Alpha Contrast Blur or sharpen the Alpha channel. Included in Stu's Effects.
sradforth - iPhone Tab Bar Icon Maker Helper for assisting with the creation of iphone icons. Also known as RGB Intensity to Alpha. Included in Stu's Effects.
sradforth - Lens Flare (aka CameraTrouserFlare) Adds sunlight induced lens flare effect to images. You've gotta love the name.
sradforth - RGB Remapper Allows the remapping of RGB channels to other colours. Included in Stu's Effects.
sradforth - Selection Obscurer Remove dust/spots/freckles/moles/left over food/extra limbs/etc.. This is a little like small scale seam carving. Included in Stu's Effects.
sradforth - Stus Effects Selection Obscurer, Advanced Rotate, Alpha Contrast, Vignette, iPhone TabBar Icon Maker & RGB remapper.
sradforth - Vignette1 Easy vignette creator. Options include power (strength of effect), X and Y axis configuration and transparency/coloring. Included in Stu's Effects.
stinger - Normal Map Height field (gray scale) to normal map (creates a much better illusion of height).
StormWare - Dull Dulls an image. Ranges from 0 (full color) to 170 (completely Grayscale).
StormWare - Grayscale+ Instead of averaging RGB like normal Grayscale, Grayscale+ retains the greatest of the RGB values.
stuff_gnome - Color Count Counts the number of colors (or number of times a color is used) in an image.
stuff_gnome - Koch Snowflake Fractal Renders the Koch fractal snowflake in configurable complexity, with brushwidth & antialias options.
susgeorgesu - Homeworld2 ROT file import Import Homeworld 2 ROT image files as used in the game 'Home World 2' by Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
Tanel - Alpha Blur v2 Updated version of Alpha Blur, this effect performs a Gaussian blur on alpha channel (transparency). Useful for fading / blending irregular shapes. V2 has enhanced performance & option to shift blur. Part of Tanel's Photo and Color Plugins
Tanel - Basic Photo Adjustments v2.0 Color and tone enhancement tools (levels, curves) in a simple intuitive package. Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Tanel - Bidirectional Blur This blur is a gaussian blur with the ability to separately modify the horizontal and vertical direction. Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Tanel - Black and White Converter Convert image to black and white (greyscale), with many options for setting white/black level, tone & contrast, color & tint. Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Tanel - Color Mixer v1.2 Make fine color adjustments with values for Red, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Magenta & Base. Selectively apply to shadows, midtones or highlights. Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Tanel - Color to Alpha v2.2 Extracts a color range from image, by leaving pixels of selected color opaque and making the rest transparent. Only alpha values are altered, color remains intact. Part of Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Tanel - Eyeshine (animal red-eye) removal This plugin removes animal eye glow from photos caused by direct flash. Part of Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Tanel - Grain Noise (Film Grain) This effect generates film grain (or luminance grain). Use it to add some character to otherwise boring-smooth digital image. Part of Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Tanel - Hue / Saturation+ Removed by the author following enhancements to the built-in Hue/Saturation adjustment (Paint.NET v 3.5.2)
Tanel - Local Contrast Enhancement Clarify flat or hazy looking photos by selectively adjusting the contrast. Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Tanel - Red Eye Quick Fix Red eye removal tool. Make a selection around the eyes and run the plugin. Part of Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Tanel - Shadow / Highlight Recovery Fix excessively contrasted photos, by brightening shadows and/or darkening highlights. Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Tanel - Sharpen+ (Advanced Unsharp Mask) Sharpen photos with an unsharp mask. Yields finer results than the built-in sharpen effect. Part of Tanel's Plugin Pack.
Tanel - Tanel's Photo and Color Plugins Effects: Sharpen+, Shadow/highlight recovery, Local contrast enhancement, Color to alpha, Color mixer, Red eye quick fix, Basic photo adjustments, Black & White Converter, Eyeshine (animal red-eye) removal, Grain noise, Alpha blur v2, Bidirectional Blur.
taoyue - Photoshop PSD file plugin Plugin for loading and saving Photoshop files.
tarheit - Chroma Key (Green) For removing the green background from an image. Updated to include Blue.
Telesto - Another Raw File Loader Support for loading RAW files. No longer supported or available for download.
Tim! - Mosaic Effect - v1.0.0.0 Converts a drawing into a mosaic pattern, using the Secondary colour as the adhesive or grout between the tesserae. Tim's Effects.
Tim! - Rounded Rectangle v1.2.0.0 Uses the Primary and Secondary colours and the current brush width to draw a rectangle with rounded corners into the current selection. Tim's Effects.
Tim! - Tim's Effects Contains: Rounded Rectangle v1.2 & Mosaic Effect v1.0.
Toli - Engrave / Emboss Emboss/Engrave effect with configurable strength. Toli's Effects.
Toli - Mirror / Rotate Mirror selection horizontally, vertically, or over a diagonal. Rotate a selection. Toli's Effects. See also Mirror / Rotate Menu
Toli - Mirror / Rotate Menu Mirror selection horizontally, vertically, or over a diagonal. Rotate a selection. This is the same effect as Mirror/Rotate but houses the effects in the Mirror submenu. Toli's Effects.
Toli - Smooth Selected area is smoothed internally, as if there were no surroundings. Toli's Effects.
Toli - Toli's Effects Effects: Mirror/Rotate, Mirror / Rotate Menu, Engrave/Emboss, Smooth. All effects require IniFile.dll be present in /Effects/ folder. Language files are also available as part of the package.
Tom Jackson - CodeLab v1.8 Internal Paint.NET tool for creating your own plugins. Code & apply your own effects on the fly. Updated and maintained by BoltBait.
Tom Jackson - Fire Effect Render flames with this single-effect implementation of the fire effect. Should be used over a blurred black shape on white canvas.
Tom Jackson - Reduce Noise Reduces the noise in an image while maintaining detail. Included in Paint.NET v3.22+
tunedude - Interlace Adds horizontal/vertical stripes of color/transparency to the image.
tzachs - Perspective Lines Draws vanishing points & guidelines to help you with drawing in perspective.
Vermiculus - Gralpha Converts grayscale to Alpha.
wizard - Glass Orb Generator No longer functions with the latest release of Paint.net. The effect used to render glass spheres/orbs.
Xarx - InputToOutput+ Sets one image channel (RGBA) from another channel or from other basic pixel characteristic (CMYK component, HSV component, luminance, etc,)
Xhin - Bizarro-Negation v1.0 Creates abstract art using a technique which effectively duplicates the layer, flips it horizontally and vertically, then sets it to negation.
Xhin - Color Dimmer Dims the individual RGB channels.
Xhin - Rainbow-Splitter Split an image into two sections, both of which can be colored by a repeating colored gradient of your choice.
Xhin - Self-Negation Does the equivalent of taking a selection, adding it to another layer, setting the layer mode to 'Negation' and flattening it.
Xhin - Tint Splinter Recolor an image by simultaneously tinting it with two different colors. Can take an RGB channel and shift it to another, for example shift green to red.
xmario - Cut Color Cuts one color & shades of it from your image. Choose color to leave & pixels of a different color are changed to transparent (or black and white).
xrl - LCD Subsampling resize Resizes image horizontally at 50% while retaining sharpness.
YellowAfterlife - Fill from Clipboard Fills the layer (or selection) with tiled texture from the clipboard.
yvdh - Chart White Balance Adjust the white balance of a picture based on the white and black patch a standard color chart in the scene.
Zagna - OpenRaster Filetype Ora file support. Requires exe download/run to install.
zarathoustra - Color inpainting v1.0 Colors gray areas in a picture where colors are only known in few parts of the picture.
zarathoustra - Gabor filter v1.0 Applies an edge detector filter to the image, letting you choose the wavelength and the angle of edge detection.
zeeshanejaz - PNM File Type Plugin Reads and writes PNM Images. PNM is a portable bitmap format used in legacy software (more common in LINUX / UNIX Platforms).

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*NEW* Zombieman - IFF ILBM (Amiga) Loader Loader for IFF ILBM images (native file format of the old Commodore Amiga computers). Supports loading HAM6 and HAM8 modes (and in theory HAM5 and HAM7 modes). Does not handle IFF24 images (max 8-bit images).

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zoonel - CellMaker Rev Improved Cellmaker plugin with more options.

[Simon Brown]

List of Filetype Plugins
revision date: 1 May 2013

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Alpha 32-bit Bitmap - FremyCompany. Allows you to open and save file in 32-bit bitmap. You must rename the file to *.bmpx (to avoid conflict with the existing PDN's BMP handler). If you try to open non-BMP files, you should receive an error (24bpp bitmaps are loaded correctly)
Animated Image 1.7 - Simon Brown. Open and save animated GIFs & PNGs, one frame into each layer. Simon Brown's Plugin Pack.
Another Raw File Loader - Telesto. Support for loading RAW files. No longer supported or available for download.
ASCII Art - Simon Brown. Obsolete, use: Another ASCII Art File Type Plugin.
ASCII Art File Type Plugin - I Like Pi. ASCII art generator. Transform your image into an ascii art masterpiece!
AVI Frame Importer: AVIImport - Simon Brown. Allows Paint.NET to open an AVI (movie) file and choose which frame to open as an image. Files should be supported by the Windows AVI library. NB not all video files will work.
BLP Converter Plugin - Evan Wallace. File support for loading Blizzard Picture files (*.blp). Requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package.
DDS File Support - Dean Ashton. Enables DDS file loading & saving. Included Paint.NET 3.1+. Forum thread no loner exists.
EA FSH Filetype - null54. Loads and saves the FSH format used by Electronic Arts games.
FileType TP4 - Prillan. File support for *.TP4 files as used by the game RollerCoaster Tycoon.
HD Photo plugin - BETA - Rick Brewster. Support for HD imaging. No longer supported. See JPEG XR filetype plugin
Homeworld2 ROT file import - susgeorgesu. Import Homeworld 2 ROT image files as used in the game 'Home World 2' by Sierra Entertainment, Inc.
Icon, Cursor, and Animated Cursor Format - evanolds. Support for Icon & cursor filetypes, including animated cursors.
IFF filetype - rmtew. Uses the SDLimage library to extend support to the IFF filetype.

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*NEW* IFF ILBM (Amiga) Loader - Zombieman. Loader for IFF ILBM images (native file format of the old Commodore Amiga computers). Supports loading HAM6 and HAM8 modes (and in theory HAM5 and HAM7 modes). Does not handle IFF24 images (max 8-bit images).

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Im(age)PDF filetype - Martin Osieka. Allows Paint.NET to save images as PDF documents.
Image To Code (AKA Image To C) - ShayEr. Convert image to C/C++ data structure.
JPEG 2000 - Gumboot. Use JPEG 2000 instead.
JPEG 2000 - null54. Loads and saves JPEG 2000 images, superseding the old JPEG 2000 plugin.
JPEG XR - Chrysler. Load and save JPEG XR (aka HD Photo) image files
Low Color Filetype (bmp, gif, png) - jxp. Save images as 16 color bitmaps or gifs. Previously known as '16 Colors'.
OpenRaster Filetype - Zagna. Ora file support. Requires exe download/run to install.
Optimized JPEG - null54. Optimizes JPEG images using jpegtran. The Visual C++ 2010 SP1 runtime is required (x86 for a 32-bit OS, or x64 for a 64-bit OS). To install place both the exe and dll in Paint.NET's FileTypes folder.
OptiPNG - I Like Pi. Updated version is available, see OptiPNG Updated. Integrates OptiPNG with Paint.NET, optimizes PNGs to make them smaller (http://optipng.sourceforge.net/). To install place both the exe and dll in Paint.NET's FileTypes folder.
OptiPNG (Updated) - Mr X. Updated version of OptiPNG (fixes some security vulnerabilities). Functionality is same: compresses the PNG filetype when saving images. Both the OptiPngFileType.dll and optipng.exe need to be in the FileTypes directory.
Paint Shop Pro FileType - null54. Allows Paint.Net to load and save Jasc's Paint Shop Pro format.
PCX Plug-In - Joshua Bell. Load & save PCX images.
Photoshop Brush - null54. Load and save brushes used by Adobe® Photoshop®. Brushes sampled from image data are supported, dynamically computed brushes are ignored.
Photoshop file plugin - frankb. Plugin for loading and saving Photoshop files. Use Photoshop PSD file plugin.
Photoshop Pattern - null54. Load Pattern files used by Photoshop's Fill command. Only Grayscale, Indexed and RGB mode patterns (8-bit and 16-bit) are supported.
Photoshop PSD file plugin - taoyue. Plugin for loading and saving Photoshop files.
PNM File Type Plugin - zeeshanejaz. Reads and writes PNM Images. PNM is a portable bitmap format used in legacy software (more common in LINUX / UNIX Platforms).
RAW File - Pebal. Dcraw based raw file reader.
Rawload v1.0 - avatare. Load *.raw files with metadata using the Windows Imaging Component and preserving the image metadata.
RawLoader - rpetrich. Decode RAW camera images and make them available for use in Paint.NET. Requires use of installer or plugin + DCRaw.exe. Download links are not working.
RawReader - Ivn. Dcraw based RAW file reader. DCRaw has been recompiled as a *.dll (32 and 64 bit).
RGB565 Filetype - ejohnson0547. Read and write to the RGB565 or RAW565 format. Used for Android splash screens.
Spritesheet Export Plugin - MadDugan. Saves a multilayered sprite sheet to a single layered file with the layers positioned side-by-side.
SVGImport - Simon Brown. Adds support for SVG files. Files will be rasterized by the conversion process. Note: requires InkScape be installed.
Vantage Preview Images (.VBP) - mchansy. Support for Vantage Sat Receiver Preview Images.
VTF Plug-In (1.0.4) - Nem. VTF file support. File format used by the Source engine (Half-Life 2 etc.).
WebP Filetype - null54. Load and save Google's WebP filetype. To install place all three dlls from the download in the FileTypes folder.
WMF (Windows Metafile) v1.1.1 - Bruce Bowyer-Smyth. Opens WMF files as a raster image. NOTE: OPENS FILES ONLY - will not save the *.WMF format. To install place all three DLL files in the /Filetypes/ folder.
XCF filetype - Martin Osieka. Load and save images in GIMP native file format XCF (and its packed variants XCFGZ and XCFBZ2). To install, copy the two files into the /FileTypes/ folder.
XNB format - r2d2rigo. Loads XNA 4 uncompressed Texture2D & XNBs compiled for Windows or Windows Phone. No save option. To install, copy all four DLL files to the /FileTypes/ folder.
XPM File Type plugin - naylorjs. XPM support in Paint.NET. Note: doesn't handle every XPM option.

[jerkfight]

This must of tooken a long time. Great job, and much appreciated

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Thanks jerkfight.

Yes it took weeks to compile the list. Shame I had to split the lists (because there is a 60000 character limit on each post). Glad you found it beneficial!

[david.atwell]

I changed this to an Announcement. I expect you to keep this up. :-)

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Thanks for pushing this to the "Announcement" David.

Yes, I wouldn't have posted these lists if I didn't intend to update them regularly!

At this stage I think monthly updates will suffice. If we get a flood of plugins I can always shorten this proposed time frame and release updates more often.

[LFC4EVER]

Really cool list EER! Many thanks.

btw, can you remove the "Advanced Tools" plugin.. its not really a plugin but it was an April Fools "joke".

[Ego Eram Reputo]

I thought about that. I'd like to keep it in there. It makes me smile 'cos it was a good April Fools joke

If you really, really want it removed I will do so. It is your only plugin so you'll disappear from the list of authors too

[alertt]

Thank you for a REALLY GREAT LOB!
It is extremely useful, especially for those meet Paint.NET at first time, as me.

Could you please include not just additional plugins, but those included with the Paint.NET itself for easier finding their descriptions.

And I couldn’t find ‘Advanced Desaturate’ and ‘Invert Colors’ in the Index – why?

Thanks again!!!

[Goonfella]

:shock: I had no idea there were so many plug ins available! You don`t realize until you see a list of them like this.
Thankyou very much for taking the time to compile them.Good on`yer :wink:

[welshblue]

Echoing Goons' Good on Yer ... and to all the plug-in authors.

@ LFC' ... you should keep it there, I spent a couple of days wondering what it did and why I couldn't get it to work :wink:

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Could you please include not just additional plugins, but those included with the Paint.NET itself for easier finding their descriptions.

See this list: Effects included with Paint.Net

And I couldn’t find ‘Advanced Desaturate’ and ‘Invert Colors’ in the Index – why?

Invert colours is not a plugin, it's a PDN effect (see above list). There is no need to list it as it is not a downloadable extra.

I will look into Advanced Desaturate though..., Thanks!
[edit] Looks like Advanced Desaturate has not been released with it's own thread - this is why I've missed it. It will be included in the next revision.[/edit]

[Boude]

Thanks, this must have been a lot of work.

[alertt]

Hi!

Just a note. In the Index Pyrochild's plugin is spelled as 'pixellate+', while in PDN and on Pyrochild's pages as 'pixelate+' - single 'l'.

As far as I know (after consulting with the Oxford Dictionary ) both spellings are grammatically correct, however I couldn't find it in the Index using search due to this.

Thank you

[Ego Eram Reputo]

Pixelate <> Pixellate ! Good catch - thank you.

I have added this to my list of changes for the next release. I'll go with the single "L" spelling as Pyrochild uses.