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Not used before: ArtyThing by @Red ochre Dragon Effect by @ReMake G'MIC - ContrastSwissMask

Plugin never used before: @TechnoRobbo's Filament Other plugins: @xod's Image Distortion, Cells, Bevel, Drop Shadow

Plugins never used before: @Red ochre's String & Pin and @Xhin's Galaxy Transformation Plugins I use frequently: @TrevorOutlaw's Blur Blend and @toe_head2001's Inset Box Shadow

In this I used 'Fractal attractor' by @MadJik Also 'G'MIC-Qt' Thanks to Nick Hayes, Seb Fourey and Dave Tschumpele.

Plugins never used before: @MadJik's Random Mazes Random Maze #1 for the text and Random Maze #2 for the background.

This music came out of the blue for me.

Congratulations to @lynxster4, @Manc and @barbieq25 for their excellent (even I wouldn't stoop to "eggs-ellent") entries! Thanks for the generous words, @Ladybug! (I am still working on a long-overdue plugin, but decided a little comp distraction would be welcome.)

Plugins I have not tried before: Effects/Render/TRs StrangeAtrractor by @TechnoRobbo Effects/Blurs/Gradient Blocks by @pyrochild Plugins used that nonetheless deserve recognition: Adjustments/Gradient Mapping by @pyrochild Effects/Color/Metallize by @dpy Effects/Render/Spiral by @MadJik

Congrats to all! As soon as I saw @MJW's entry I knew he would get first place. The texture of the egg is so realistic, I was astounded 😲. @MJW turned in that entry, dropped the mic and walked away lol. Great job.

After playing with Tile Reflection and one of my gold images

If you are simply using the plugins in the manipulation of your images, you can pretty much use them without compensation and you are free to sell your images. What is strictly forbidden without specific permission of the plugin authors is to redistribute the plugins or to charge money for the plugins themselves. If you wish to promote someone's plugins, posting a link to their plugin thread is appropriate. Hosting the plugins on your own website, selling the plugins on a CD, or including them in a magazine is against the rules (unless you get specific permission from the plugin

Plugins used for the start: Julia Fractal by PDN. Never used before: Grow by @Red ochre

An absolute pleasure to be working with these guys again - Rollo / Sister bliss & Dido. I'm really looking forward to going back on the road with them again. Enjoy the tune.

Thank you all for your kind congratulations. It was a beautiful day with my family. Yesterday, the holiday continued - my grandson turned 10 years old.

@MarcOlleThe file version of the xcf file is v11 but the exe which is used to convert xcf to pdn supports only <= v3. In 2018 GIMP switched to v4. The exe just doesn't produce a pdn because of the unsupported version. That's the reason for the FileNotFoundException. You shouldn't expect a solution in the near future. GIMP always tells that XCF is not a file format to exchange images because it contains internal data structures. So every change in the version number needs special adaptations to the converter. Nobody pays for this 😉

Hot on the heels of 4.2.16 beta build 7765, this build fixes a new issue when saving images at 8-bit color depth if they have transparency (as reported here and in a few other posts: https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/118074-autodetect-bit-depth-on-saving-png-files-fails-on-beta-4216776543041/ ) To get this update, make sure you have "Also check for pre-release (beta) versions" enabled in Settings, and then click on the Check Now button. (Unfortunately alpha/beta releases are not currently available for the Microsoft Store version of the app). Direct download link: h

Yes, there is a way to do this in File Explorer. Take a look at this video and at stage 12.12 mins, you will see how @TechnoRobbo does this. I have, however, never been able to figure out how he does what he calls 'sort'. If you can figure it out, please post back as I'd love to know too.

No, they don't. Yes, actually, they do. With your color docker window open and set to Primary, click on the color picker tool: Out in your image, right-click on a pixel to set your Secondary color. Notice that your color docker window is now set to Secondary.

I'm only naming plugins I have not used before. I used 'Newton Fractal' by @MadJik Also 'Trail blur' by @MJW And 'G'MIC-Qt'. Thanks to Nick,Seb and Dave.😀

Never used before plugins: Helix by @Red ochre Spiral by @MadJik Fibonacci Fill by @Ego Eram Reputo Eliminate Dark/Light by @ReMake Cuboids by @Red ochre Hexagonal Grid Trail Blur by @MJW True Blur by @Ed Harvey Drop Shadow by @Kris Van Motten Many, many layers & blend modes, erasers.

Tested, saves the files it used to previously stumble on with autodetect. Thanks! (And I have to take this opportunity to add: thanks for all these ~15 years paint.net has been an indispensable tool for my purposes, over all kinds of Photoshops and what have you.)

Hope you have a wonderful Birthday @ReMake

Happy Birthday @ReMake! Hope it's a good one! 🤭

Feel better @Pixey

Happy Birthday!

A very Happy Birthday to you @ReMake

Happy birthday @ReMake. Have a great day!🎂🍺

I'm sorry but I don't recall what it said. Obviously this Plugin is working fine in Beta, as @lynxster4 has it working, as does @Ladybug. Thank you so much @ReMake. Thank you all for helping. I'll take this up in a couple of days and try to get it working again. I have a tooth abscess at the moment 🦷 and am not feeling my best, so am a bit off my game - but I WILL get it working if it kills me 🤪 Thanks again all - you are the best 👍

It's working for me @Pixey, but I'm still using 4.2.15. Haven't updated to the .16 beta yet. EDIT: Just updated to the beta and Genesis is still working for me.

Ok, I have just installed the following Windows Update KB5000842 under "other updates" and now printing from Paint.Net works 100% again, not sure if this was the one suggested, but thanks anyway if it was.

Congratulations @MJW A very worthy winner. Some great entries overall.🙂

Layers/Import from file (choose 'details' in the top right of the pane then click on the field title to sort)... or more generally minimise paint.net and open file explorer.

Release version 1.10.8. Changes: Updated to the April 6, 2021 release of DirectXTex.

And the Winners are: In 1st Place goes to @MJW with 8 votes 🥇 In 2nd Place goes to @lynxster4 with 5 votes 🥈 In 3rd Place goes to @Manc & @barbieq25 with 4 votes each 🥉 Congratulations everyone - all the entries were lip-smacking delicious 😋

You have not read the posts above. There is a post where you can download all versions of libraries. Click on Circular text/July 4, 2020 link.

Thanks to the Native TrackBar control it wasn't too difficult to change the appearance of the sliders in the different states. Hope you like it more than the old blue one provided from .net TrackBar. 'Hot' means the mouse hovers the slider thumb, 'Pressed' the user moves the thumb with the mouse. In 'normal' mode the thumb shows always the BackColor. If the controls shows tick marks then the thumb outline will be .pointing to the ticks bar. Also added the default value marker.

Plugin never used before: Distorting mirror by @MadJik Other pluging used: Trail by @pyrochild Objectedge & Clipwarp by @Red ochre Also used a few blend modes and curves+ by @pyrochild Picture self taken view from the front of house mixing tent of Faithless Live 2010.

Start image: a touch of Droste by @toe_head2001 Plugin not used before: is Psychocolour by @Red ochre

Facet by @Red ochre Bulge Many layer blend modes, Gaussian blur, Feather by @BoltBait AA's Assistant by @dpy.

ShapeMaker Tutorial Part I ShapeMaker Tutorial Part II

Wow @Cakie67 that is absolutely beautiful 👍 Featherwind just jumps off the page. Fantastic coloring and placement of the textures. You get an A+

PNG Sprite Matrix V1.0.1 A simple File type that will take all images in the PDNs Layers and arrange them into a Matrix as close to equal height and width as possible. V1.01+ allows you to manually set number of columns Hidden Layers are ignored. Tip: use Menu : Layers - > Import From File... to select and load multiple images. This plugin will save only. There is no load. Installation: Download and unzip the dll file. Move or copy the dll file into your paint.net\Filetypes\ folder. Restart paint.net. Usage: File->Save As - >Sprite Matrix (*.png). PNGSpriteMat

The DLL: Object Pruner.zip Object Pruner is in the Object submenu. ======================================== Object Pruner conditionally erases objects based on their sizes. Objects are connected regions of non-transparent pixels. The size of each object is compared to the size of the largest object. Objects that fall outside the minimum and maximum bounds are erased. The size of each object is the number of pixels in the object. With the default settings, all objects except the largest object will be erased. The controls are: Minimum Size of Objects to