What's this?
This plugin is added to the menu Effects, submenu Render.
You should use it to create/add lines to your images.
Download the DLL
Plugin Random lines.dll
Here is the DLL
The source is available with the plugins package!
http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?showtopic=7186
How to install?
Close Paint.net
Unzip and place the DLL in your Effect folder usually: C:/Program Files/Paint.NET/Effects
The User interface
Quantity of lines: set the needed quantity from 1 to 1000. The number of lines could be different as sometimes the lines are overwritting themselves...
Thickness of the lines (max.): set the brushwidth to use to draw the lines. In Aliased mode, if the size is 1, the line could be disrupted (Not a bug
, but Microsoft line tool issue...).Thickness of the lines (min.; 0 for fixed): set this value greater than zero to have a variable thickness (between min and max slider). Zero is used for fix thickness.
Color mode: choose a drawing mode between:
...Primary color: use only primary color.
...Secondary color: use only Secondary color.
...Random Primary/Secondary colors: use randomly primary or secondary color.
...Random colors: take a random value for each red/green/blue chanel.
...Random Primary color Gradient: take a random value from the Primary color family.
...Random Secondary color Gradient: take a random value from the Secondary color family.
...Random Primary/Secondary color Gradient: take a random value from the Primary or Secondary color family.
Options: check the option(s) you need:
...Random Alpha chanel:
checked: each line is drawn with a randow transparency (Alpha chanel).
unchecked: Transparency is taken from Primary/Secondary color.
...Clamp lines to the borders:
checked: each line is drawn across the image from a size to another size.
unchecked: start/end points of the lines could be any pixel of the image.
...Continuous lines:
checked: each new line starts where the previous ends.
unchecked: each line starts/ends regardless the others.
...Anti-Aliasing:
You should check this with Thickness amount of 1...
Reseed: press this button to run the effect with another random reference...
Some examples:
Default values:
Clamp:Off
Clamp:Off, Continuous:On
Random thickness, random colors with alpha
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-Rick Brewster
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