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It will be possible to work with the color profile in the upcoming 5.1 release. A significant portion of the "back end" rendering engine has been upgraded and rewritten to accommodate this and to get ready for future upgrades (e.g. high bit-depth support, and maybe even HDR support). ("c2" seems to be a size-optimized sRGB-ish profile that I've seen many images using ...)

May Update A single new plugin this month. Its an image steganography tool by new author Koimtzis. Welcome aboard! Image Steganography Tool Koimtzis Encrypts an image inside another image in a secure way and with a small reduction in quality. Extraction of the hidden image requires use of a password.

Release version 1.1.32, which updates AOM to version 3.9.0.

Work in progress:

A new build of my plugin pack has been made which includes this fix. Go get the update here: https://forums.getpaint.net/BoltBaitPluginPack

Hi everyone! I've been doing some 'spring cleaning' on my hard drive, knowing I have hundreds of shape files 'just hanging around'. I've re-categorized them for release. I also made some new ones! In all, there are 358 additional shapes and a zip file within the zip file of my 'colored irises'. Please see my first post for the clickable thumbnail views of the new shapes and the download link for the new shapes named 'Addendum #1 Shapes'. I hope you enjoy these additions. Keep on PDN'ing!! 🤗 🥰

Hi @CybrRyno - welcome to the forum Plugins required: Bevel Selection & Outline Steps: Isolate the large symbol on its own otherwise transparent layer. How? Use the Magic Wand + Ctrl key and click on both parts. Press Ctrl + X to copy & delete from the first layer. Press Ctrl + Shift + V to paste the symbol into a new layer. The smaller letters have a suble bevel. You can see this as a lightening of the north and west edges. Select the symbol again. Apply Selection > Bevel Selection with Depth 5 & Strength 2.0. Light Color: 165,50,50. Dark color: 99,32,45. The next thing to add is the outline. It's color is something like 65,0,0. Deselect the symbol and run Outline Object with the color mentioned and radius =3. Final thing is a drop shadow. Effects > Object > Drop Shadow. Radius 11, Distance 7, Opacity 0.9, color Black.

Welcome to the forum @TheGirlWarlock Personally I would persevere with the current Levels Adjustment dialog and try to train your mind to think about the RGB levels running vertically from 0 at the bottom to 255 at the top. In the end, that will be a lot easier than getting a crick in your neck, screen-snipping and rotating the histograms, or developing a plugin. Your wish (with a bit of lateral thinking) is my command... In the screenshot below, I have laid out my screen with: paint.net on the left the Levels Adjustment dialog top right and the multimedia app PotPlayer from https://potplayer.daum.net/ bottom right Right-click on PotPlayer and from the menu select Video -> Screen Rotation -> 90 degrees Rotation Right-click on PotPlayer again and select Open -> Open Screen Capture - or just press the shortcut Ctrl+S This will open a Camera window, which you can drag and resize so that it sits over the Levels Adjustment dialog as shown in the screenshot below. Everything that is under the Camera window will be displayed in the PotPlayer window but rotated by 90° clockwise. When you adjust the controls in the Levels Adjustment dialog you will see the changes live in the PotPlayer window. To stop screen capturing, right-click on PotPlayer and select Close Playback I'm sure there are other live screen capture apps that can do this, but as I use PotPlayer anyway, it seemed like the easiest kludgey solution.

Let's unwrap this a bit. I'll try to explain what I'm seeing and what I'd try. Ignoring the small inset square for the moment, the rest of the panel has three parts which are at different heights: Main body bevelled surround of the grey panel - this is higher than the body grey panel is inset (lower) than the body Assuming the lighting is illuminating the scene from top left, we can apply highlights to all raised edges facing the light. Similarly, apply darkening to the edges facing away from the light. Bevel Object plugin is great for this! Those raised pieces will cast shadows from the darkened edges. Use Drop Shadow to create these. Remember these shadows are cast away from the light source and are soft-edged. The thicker the object, the longer the shadow should be. The grey panel will only have shadows cast on it by the body and raised bevel. It will create no shadows of it's own. Final assembly I've over-emphasised these for demonstration purposes. You will want to apply the effects much more subtly. If you create your elements each on their own layer, applying the same effect to multiple items is a breeze. I used the same drop shadow settings for the bevelled surround and the body, but applied the effect twice to the body (assuming it was twice as thick).

That works and does keep the notes in the .pdn file with the rest of the project, but as you say, it is cumbersome. IMO, it's much easier to write notes in a separate .txt file or a Word .docx document that you name the same as the .pdn and save to the same folder. If you use a Word file you can also include snippets of the image to help illustrate the steps you took.

Great work @lynxster4 I love the shading 👍 They all look so delicious

oh hey thats pretty cool, thx <:

BoltBait GPU Accelerated Plugin Pack (for Paint.NET v5.0+) NOTE: If you're looking for my plugin pack for Paint.NET v4.3.12, go here, or Paint.NET v3.5.11, go here. If you're in here downloading the 5.0 version of Paint.NET, you're probably familiar with my plugin pack. I have spent the better part of the last 6 months rewriting most of my plugins from scratch... taking advantage of all the new toys @Rick Brewster has given us plugin authors in Paint.NET v5.0. He has completely rewritten the Effect system within Paint.NET v5.0 (Don't worry, all your favorite classic effects will still work.) adding new capabilities for the IndirectUI system and providing access to the GPU so that our effects can run VERY fast! What's New: I have rewritten more than 25 of my plugins so that they will now be GPU accelerated! While I was in there, I also added cool new features. Be sure to check your favorite plugin! Download: Download Donate How to install these plugins. I'm going through a really tough financial time right now. So, any donation no matter how small would be very much welcome! Download Contents: The following effects have been GPU accelerated Adjustment > Black and White Plus Adjustment > Color Balance Adjustment > Combined Adjustments Adjustment > Transparency Artistic > Dream Fill > from Clipboard Fill > from File Object > Apply Alpha Mask Object > Bevel Object Object > Feather Object Object > Inner Shadow Object > Outline Object Object > Switch Alpha to Gray (This is Create Alpha Mask) Object > Switch Gray to Alpha Photo > Level Horizon / Plum Bob Photo > Meme Maker Photo > Photo Adjustments Photo > Remove Dust Photo > Vignette Plus Render > Calendar Creator Render > Flames Selection > Bevel Selection Selection > Blur Selection Edge Selection > Feather Selection Selection > Inner Shadow Selection > Outline Selection Text Formations > Text Fun Factory Object > Drop Shadow Plus The following effects are classic flavor* Adjustment > Hue / Sat+ Flip Horizontal Flip Vertical Artistic > Oil Paint+ Artistic > Pastel Blurs > Gaussian Blur+ Color > Complementary Colors Object > Paste Alpha Photo > Seam Carving Photo > Sharpen Classic Photo > Sharpen Landscape Render > Chart / Graph Render > Dimensions Render > Gradients Render > Grid / Checkerboard Render > Polygon / Stars Stylize > Edge Detect Classic Stylize > Floyd-Steinberg Dithering Outdated plugins removed from my pack Adjustment > Temperature / Tint (now built-in) Text Formations > Creative Text Pro (now Text Fun Factory) Text Formations > Outlined / Gradient Text (now Text Fun Factory) I made a new Drop Shadow plugin! This pack also includes 57 shapes and 2 palettes. These are the ones I use. *Please post a vote for which of my "classic" effects you'd like to see GPU accelerated next. Screenshots of Various Effects: Outline Selection and Outline Object got some new features and the outlines look MUCH better than previous versions. Check out some of these new features: Bevel now has a shadow angle free choice and a hard edge option. Calendar Creator now has holiday highlighting. Enter your favorite birthdays! Many of my plugins utilize tabs for making the UI much smaller than before. For example, Text Fun Factory separates the UI into basic functions: The Photo > Level Horizon effect utilizes 2 tabs, one for marking the horizon and one for finalizing your image: Some old favorites have been rewritten for GPU acceleration: Enjoy! Also, for you luddites that refuse to use the installer, here's a zip file with all the DLL's in it: BoltBaitPack611DLLs.zip How to install Paint.NET plugins. NO SHAPES FOR YOU! How about giving this post an up vote ♥️?

Yes, very likely. If you take this coloured elevation map, convert it to greyscale and fiddle around with the thresholds, you can get close to the first image @saramello posted. @saramello's second image is a contrast-stretched, very low-resolution (i.e blocky), colour-inverted equivalent:

This is also explained in a Tip in the Documentation https://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/ColorPicker.html See the Sampling Modes heading.

Hey Everyone, I made this Paint.net plugin for saving and loading *.ico files. All source code is released along with a first release. https://github.com/KyleTTucker/Paint.net-Icon-Creator/releases/tag/IconCreator1.0 Happy designing! Cheers, Kyle

Thanks for releasing the plugin. Unfortunately, it is not a replacement for an existing plugin. When opening an icon with different sizes, it loads only a small size, and the old plugin offers a selection of images, incl. separated by layers. YandexICO.zip

I forced the dialog to the foreground when shown - they were being lost in the background even though they were modal. Added this code to Shown Events: this.TopMost = true; this.Focus(); this.BringToFront(); Sorry missed that. Try this v4.0.1 IcoCur.zip