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Q: do you want a realistic image of a person or a cartoon one? If you're going for realism, I think the legs are too short for the body, but the knees too high. I also think the shape of the legs is wrong (trust me I know what I'm talking about here). Ref the demo image below: Arms: I've set the shoulder back and extended the upper arm. The elbow & forearm are flexed - slightly more than the upper arm. Chest: Slightly deeper and more rounded. Waist: dragged in to give some more shape to the torso. Torso: shortened. Legs: reshaped & repositioned. People don't stand on their heels - so the feet have been shifted back approx half their length. I've given him some 'meat' in his legs (arms too) to beef him up. Gif: before & after.

Anyone interested in a decent basketball map? Basketball_Big_texture.png.zip

You can dot it yourself with a custom palette like I did in the example below: As you can see, I used four colour "places" for each of the colours in my palette, so I made a larger "target", much like the example by BoltBait.

If you don't like to have the color window open, or it doesn't have enough spaces for the colors you need, try this way: 1. Create your palette as part of your drawing (off to the side) 2. Select the Eye Dropper tool and setup the options as shown: 3. When using the pencil tool to draw, press the letter 'K' to switch to the Eye Dropper tool, click your color palette to select your next color, and continue drawing.

What you are referring to as interlacing is known as a Progressive JPEG. My Optimized JPEG file type plugin supports saving progressive JPEG files, it uses jpegtran to optimize JPEG images. To use it you would select the Progressive radio button in the Encode Options.

Thanks for the complements everyone. I'm unable to rename the thread tittle, could one of the mods rename it to "Ball Maps" ? That way anyone can post their favorite ball map. Anyway, here is a good Beach Ball map if anyone is interested: BeachBall.png.zip

Download from my plugin set Tutorial by forum moderator David Atwell: The Wonderful World of Gradient Mapping Get some nice gradients here: Presets for Gradient Mapping by ReMake This adjustment appears in the Adjustments menu. Amazing! Adjustments > Gradient Mapping Use this plugin to create a custom gradient and map it to your image based on any supported input channel. One of the primary uses of this plugin is to create a multi-colored gradient. Just use Paint.NET's built-in gradient tools to draw the gradient shape you want, then use this plugin to create your desired gradient. Download from my plugin set For developers: Gradient Mapping is on GitHub! https://github.com/bsneeze/pdn-gradientmapping

This plugin optimizes JPEG images using jpegtran. Compatibility: 5.0.11+ Installation: 1. Close Paint.NET. 2. Place OptimizedJPEG.dll and jpegtran.exe in the Paint.NET FileTypes folder which is usually located in one the following locations depending on the Paint.NET version you have installed. Classic: C:\Program Files\Paint.NET\FileTypes Microsoft Store: Documents\paint.net App Files\FileTypes Portable: <Paint.NET folder>\FileTypes 3. Restart Paint.NET. Download: OptimizedJPEGFiletype.zip Source Code: https://github.com/0xC0000054/pdn-optimized-jpeg

MODERATORS NOTE: this plugin has been superseded by a newer version: https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/114190-optipng-filetype-2019-05-07/ Hi everybody! This isn't really a new plugin, just modified version from old OptiPNG file type plugin. Switching old OptiPNG plugin is recommended because it uses outdated version of OptiPNG which contains security vulnerabilities. Functionality is same and source based on I Like Pi's code, so most of the credit doesn't belong to me. Downloads: Download Plugin: OptiPNG plugin.ZIP Download Source: http://mir.cr/3EWYQMQS Installation: Both the OptiPngFileType.dll and optipng.exe need to be in the FileTypes directory. Changelog: October 7, 2011 - updated OptiPNG to 0.65, little reformatting to code and few changes to UI June 12, 2012 - updated OptiPNG to 0.7.1, and tiny changes to code I don't really care how do you use modifications I made, but because original plugin is licensed under GPLv3 this plugin is also licensed under GNU General Public License (GPL) v3 OptiPNG plugin.ZIP

added enhancement request https://github.com/bsneeze/pdn-gridwarp/issues/4

When installed properly, it will show up under File > Save As... > Save as type:

@dipstick! Thank you very much vor the images. *Background image self photographed!

@Woodsy! Hopefully soon it will work out that they are here again. @Pixey! Thank you so much for the information.

Hi @Beta0 & @AndrewDavid. I am standing-in for @Woodsy who is unable to work at his computer at the moment, as he's unwell. He's told me that he feels bad he can't comment on here, but I am keeping him up-to-date with your lovely comments, which makes him very happy. Hopefully he'll be better soon .

Yeah. JPG was specified. Not sure why you want to save in JPG, though, there are better formats out there (depending on what type of graphics you are working with). If you are working with any sort of transparency, animation or just want to preserve quality... then JPG isn't for you. WebP, an opensource format, is similar to PNG except that it supports animation (to my knowledge), and has an option for lossy compression (though it is still a lot smarter than JPG, and thus will have less of a loss in quality). You can actually get a plug-in for Paint.NET to support WebP graphics.

The OptiPNG plugin supports interlacing.

Just use multiple blending modes. Click thumbnail bellow to get a closer look....

1) Load the BeachBall.png map in PDN 2) Click Effects > Render > Shape3D You can paint different colors if you'd like. Click thumbnail below for closer look.

I'm sure you all know the song

Second and last entry: This is an abstract of two hearts, filled with a bunch of textures and colors. It's funny that this one took less time than the other.

Two bald boys facing each other. They stare at the viewer, unfazed at what's happening to them.

My violin I made many moons ago.

Promoted to the Galleria

My bike.