ScrapbookWithPDN

That was fun!!!! Clearly, @MJWyours was, hands down, the best design and nicest one. That's why you won. 🏆You've got a gift and talent for design. 🎨 @PixeyYou did such a great job hosting this. You really did. I hope you continue to host many more to come. Everyone did such a great job!! So much talent around here.

Very grateful for everything you do. Thank you Rick.

No kidding? I've worked for years with offenders 5 days a week, too. Thank you for making me a better person, for being diligent on the forum, and pointing out important issues that should never be ignored or taken for granted or else the next thing you know everything has gone down hill and it's full blown anarchy and loss of civility.

@GillFelisI'm very sorry to have offended you.

WOW!! HOLY COW!! @High Resolution!! This is a very useful and INCREDIBLE plugin you created!! I LOVE IT!!! It's also addicting, too!! I work a lot in 300 dpii and you're plugin is absolutely incredible in low or high resolution.Thank you so much for doing this.

That is so fantastic, @G'MIC! I was wondering, and I don't know if you have any say of it, but on the main G'MIC website, for all the downloads of various software, can you also add the download link for Paint.Net on it, as with the listing of the other platforms there are downloads for, if that's possible, when it's up and ready to go? It's not my place, but it can't hurt to just ask, so I did. Regardless, you're so talented and cool!

NICE JOB @toe_head2001!!! This is such an unbelievably useful, cool, and helpful plugin. I've used it often in the past and glad I can start using it more with the update. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

@lifeday I absolutely LOVE your dog image you created using G'MIC! It really was worth the effort to preserver on to figure it out. You didn't give up. You kept on and kept trying until you got it and it was totally worth it for the end result! Beautiful blending. Your dog is gorgeous. Nico looks a little like a Goldendoodle. Regardless, he's a beautiful dog. That's obvious. I'm glad you did not give up!

Wow! How incredibly cool and gracious that you @G'MICcame to the Paint.Net community to introduce yourself and help with your massively incredible plug-in. So many of us are having such a great time exploring it. Other talented members of the forum have also been working hard at helping us with G'MIC in the Paint.Net community. You @G'MIC created such a wonderful thing for so many software users. I wanted to personally thank you, and thank those here behind the scenes to help it run smoother with Paint.Net, and for the selfless giving of your time, to all of you, even the ones who take the time just to try to help others with a post giving some directional help or creating videos @Pixey that further help resolve confusion.

Great job on the video @Pixey!!! I'm sure many will find that helpful.

Very, very nice plugin. Thank you for taking the time to do this. Much appreciated.

Hi @lifeday, if this helps even a little more, What Null is telling you, and I hope he doesn't mind if I give a little bit more about this, but when you use the Gmic plugin, once the UI (User Interface.....when you have G'mic up and running in front of you), at the top you see the list of filters. The filters have a "+" sign next to them to click on, which allows a drop down menu to appear showing you the many special effects/filters you can use below each main filter category. The specific technique Null and Dipstick are referring to, from everything I've seen following their given info, the particular main filter you need to click on is "Artistic", which is, I think, the third one from the top. Click on the plus sign next to it. You'll then see many special effects display. Scroll down on them until you see the one that says, "Stylize". Once you click on/select "Stylize" a new UI (User Interface) shows just on the right side of the entire plugin. At the top of the right side you should see a button you can click on, right across from the word "Style". Once you click on that arrow button, you'll then see more of what Null and Dipstick are referring to. At least this is how I understood the info. I know it can be a bit confusing for some people. I hope this has helped some understand it a bit more. If I have failed to understand it, I apologize for adding to any confusion.

This is using the "Texturize" plugin...not for actual Paint.Net...and it's never happened before. Should I put it here or under the Texturize thread? It said things that made me uncomfortable, too.

Gotcha. I thought you had written previously to leave it and just add the newer ones. My bad. I'm really putting you to extra work. I'll give you extra likes for being so helpful.

I was going to mention that, too, but deleted it. You're 100% correct.

About Brushes; THANK YOU. On another note, as long as the brushes function properly with how they are supposed to look when being used on the canvas, and with a larger resolution to work fine, too, a ton of addition brush functions probably don't have to be incorporated, just the basics, I would imagine. Also, I honestly believe, if it helps with keeping things less complicated, if .abr brushes need to be converted to a PDN brush format, I honestly believe many people would contribute to doing that, or, better, yet, PDN likely will have the means to convert (or create) any .abr brush into whatever future format it needs to be to work properly in PDN. So, from a user POV who uses PDN for things often done in 300 dpi, that's my two cents. Having written that, ppl will be wanting to contribute their created or converted (if it comes to that) PDN brushes, like with shapes, I would imagine. It would be kind of nice if the smaller size file of PDN, and a better version of Brush Factory (for 300 dpi work & color palette issues--or just color palette issues) could still be offered as an alternative to the impending future larger file size version release of PDN, for those who do use older OSs. It would be nice if people can pick which of the two they need to use or can use, especially for educational purposes or teaching facilities, allowing people to access a great image editing software to where they normally wouldn't be able to. I know going closer to 40 MB, from close to 8MB, is a big change but it's still not as horrible as the alternative free image software, which is now nearing over 200 MB. UGH!!! Your possible future release, even at 40 or 50 MB still isn't anywhere near that. Regardless of what you end up doing or adding with it in a future release, thank you so much for choosing to spend more time with it. Especially, since you're the baby daddy. Your kid has missed and needs his dad. This is also kind of a small side note, but maybe allow the Norton community to stop making it's alarms go off so often with PDN and many of it's plugins? I don't know if this will cause issues for people using it on computers that are not theirs, where they can't go into admin settings and let Norton know it's ok. I'm not sure if, while using at a library or university or wherever, if that will cause problems for the computer it's used on, even if portable. Clearly, I also know nothing about the techie side of this so maybe this is neither here nor there but I do know the Norton virus protector doesn't act like that with 198 MB Gimp and it's bloated pile of features built into it or the few add on plugins. Sometimes a part of me wonders if there could be some form of quasi politics involved in that. Maybe it's just a matter of someone always uploading their dll files to Norton? It's just odd and needlessly concerns people or prevents some features from being used. Norton, oddly, is the biggest "RED ALERT" PDN flagging virus protector. I'm comparing it to the ones I've used with PDN; being McAffee, Kaspersky, and Norton. It's never flags just for PDN, other than one time period about 2 yrs ago, but it does for many plugins. I go in to Admin settings and deal with it but when not using it in Admin, after allowing plugin use, it still always pops up to say, more or less, "OMG!!! ARE YOU SURE YOU WANNA USE THIS FILE EVEN THOUGH YOU SAID IT WAS OK TO USE IT????!!! 😮

Agreed.

@Reptillian Oh, I'm so glad you shared that. I was trying and trying and TRYING to figure out how they are used. Life saver! THANK YOU

On another note, is there a thread, forum, or website that talks about the plugin itself? I'd like to start a thread for it, wherever that would be, for PDN users. @dipstickand thank you for adding a link to that photography website that showed examples of the plugin effect and more talk of it. That helped me. I'm so not techie, so, every little bit helps.

@dipstick I'm glad you DID post that image. It's incredibly cool and helps people realize what can be created.The image looks like something professionally created in a gaming magazine or from a gaming website. It's impressive. Knowing you made that with PDN, is also showing how impressive PDN is, as well as the skills of you, the artist.

I tried to get here sooner. I wanted to thank you for helping this work better for larger resolution, which the 64 bit situation likely helped? I tried this plugin again and there's a bigger difference in performance after the modification. I know this takes time @null54. It's so appreciated. I still get confused about the features of "Input/Output". I'm also a bit confused about when using an effect and it says "use below a top layer"---something like that. Plus, when others graciously write more effects for it, how to incorporate them. This is an awesome plugin added to the PDN community. I'm sure I'll figure it out soon enough. Still, all of your time to dealing with it is very much known and very much appreciated. It works so much better using 300 resolution. A big thank you @null54

Yuuuck...sorry about that. It's not easy for people who are not here as often, to get everything right. That's why I hesitate to try to be part of certain things and I don't want to muddle things up. I do want to thank you for keeping the forum organized. I know it's a big job @Pixey. We must truly have far more appreciation for what @Ego Eram Reputo , @BoltBait (a founder?) & has been doing around here for a long time.... @toe_head2001, too. Running this forum properly is a big job and it's likely a thankless job for you Admin. I'm sure people don't realize just how much dedication, time and effort goes into this, nor the "why" of it, which is a bigger picture. It's a huge important job! So, thank you, again, Pixey, and the rest of you who do this. @lynxster4 you're here, a lot, too, helping out and contributing. I'm not sure if you're an admin but you do a lot of good here, too and help others a lot, too. So, thank you, also.

Hmmm...How do I delete an entire post? Do I just delete the image and text...leaving a blank post?

My mages are 200 pixels over the limit AND....gotta make my own fills. When I get another window of time, I'll bring my gingerbread buddies back. This is why I will be deleting them; a little too big and no use of man-made texture fills, in case anyone wonders why they are gone. They didn't follow the rules. (but I swear I thought the size was 800 x 600, lol. My bad.)