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This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it Fuzzy/Fluffy Text By FourOhFour This tutorial requires: Bevel Selection by: Bolt Bait Get it here: http://www.boltbait.com/pdn/BoltBaitPack40.zip You will be making this: Step 1: Create a new image, 800 x 600. Step 2: Choose paint bucket tool and fill the Background Layer with black. Step 3: Create a new layer. Step 4: Choose a Bold font using the fonts menu. Then, change your font size to a size big enough to work, but small enough to fit in the image. I used because of the rounded edges: Step 5: Choose a light color such as: Hex: A5FFEB Click the More button (Top Right) to get to the Hex box. Step 6: Type your text on Layer 2: Make sure to have Layer 2 selected. \ Step 7: Use the Crystallized effect on the Text Layer. Effect is found in: Effects\Distort\Crystallize\ On this step, feel free to experiment with other inputs. I chose the cell size to be 2, because it is a really small and fine size. The quality should be 5 to make it fade, but feel free to experiment. It should look somewhat like this: Step 8: Select the Magic Wand tool from the tools window. Then, change the Flood Mode to Global (It should be at the top). Step 9: Select the Text by clicking on one of the letters: Step 10: Apply the Bevel Selection effect to your text: Effect is found in: Effects\Selection\Bevel Selection I recommend these settings, but as I said earlier, feel free to experiment! It should look somewhat like this: Step 11: Apply the Dents effect: Effect should be found in: Effects\Distort\Dents Feel free to experiment with these. This step has tons of outcomes. Although, I have found that if the Scale is too large, it will be very distorted. Step 12: Merge the Text Layer and the Background Layer: You're done! If you have any suggestions or constructive criticism, post them below! This is what I came up with: Thanks for your time!

Nice writing Mr @BoltBait - but you didn't sign the lovely letter so ............ you gonna get loads of socks .

Made in Paint.NET. Enjoy the Holidays!

Furblur update 30th July 2014 A versatile blur/trail effect. Useful for Fur, false beards and grass textures and also for paper textures, watercolour effects and 'scribbled' drawing effects. Found under: Effects/Blurs/FurBlur Dll name = FurBlur. An updated version is in my V10 Plugin pack here Red ochre v10 plugin pack I would like thank 'Null54' who made this plugin possible. I spent days trying to get it to work and he solved the problem in hours! - greatly indebted. I would also like to thank EER, without whose diplomatic skills I would have left the forum months ago. Finally I must thank the many people who tested this for me over on developers central - the difficulty with random effects is that the bugs can be quite random too, it appears. So many people testing has been very useful. I am updating Furblur. It still works in much the same way on default settings, but I have added some more 'fun' stuff. Changes: 1. I wanted to make some feathers and needed more control over the curl direction, so have added this. 2. Started running out of U.I. space, so put these new curl choices in a drop-down list with the direction choices. 3. Took the liberty of removing some of the titles to the drop-down boxes - again to save space. 4. Have removed the colouring choice - now it only colours along the fur. (The fur can easily be recoloured later if the 'only keep fur' box is checked). 5. Have improved the antialiasing. 6. Have slightly increased the speed. 7. The fun bit - have included 12 new curl shapes. 8. Changed the icon pussycat colour to ginger - so you can easily tell which version you have! History Hidden Content: v1 = 459 downloads As before, best to experiment as described below - the UI has changed but all the previous examples are still possible. Here is the new U.I. and example curl shapes: How to use: Be very wary of using the plugin on large selections with large 'reps' or 'length' as it will be very slow! I suggest you try the plugin out in the following way, just to get an idea of how it works. 1. New image 800 * 600 - make background black. 2. New layer (transparent) 3. Draw 10 pix wiggly lines. nice bright colours 4. Possibly select around these lines with the lasso tool (leave plenty of room for the effect!) 5. Effects/Blurs/Furblur - lower the 'rep' slider and increase the 'length' slider to start. 6. Try each slider seperately to see what they do. Hopefully the following images will give you some ideas. Please feel free to post your FurBlur images in this thread and any tips you have discovered. Enjoy!

Is this plugin not pinned because it's generated enough discussion to keep it at the top of the page all month? Whatever...for all practical purposes, it was already pinned. Why not make it official, eh?

The bike shape is from this bike photo : http://www.freeimages.com/photo/498189

Hi there and Welcome to PDN . That is quite a task to take on, even for veterans of PDN. Here are two Youtube tutorials by a member of ours, which will at least show you a few ways to play around with changing pictures. I hope watching them will be of help.

Thank you sashwilko but the skeleton is actually from a GIF and he is motioning you to come here with the other finger.

Thanks Seerose

Actually, the Alpha Mask plugin could be of help here. http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/1854-alpha-mask-import-plugin-20/

You may use the Color Matrix plugin if the image is opaque. Duplicate the image layer two times and call the layers Red, Green, Blue. Select the Red layer, open Adjustments->Color Matrix and select there 'Red only (solid)'. Open the properties of the layer and set it to 'XOR' Do the same analogical for the Green and the Blue layer. After these steps you will see again the original image. To see just one layer switch off the visibility of the others. Combine just means to merge the layers down. To handle the not opaque case is more complex. You have to use a plugin which stores the channels in a file or the clipboard.