Ishi
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Changing the file extension could corrupt the file. Why not try renaming the extension of the file from .png to .pdn again? Try opening it from the desktop. After you rename the extension back to .pdn you could try opening Paint.Net and on the File menu try opening the file from the "Opened Recent" list and see if it opens successfully with Paint.NET.
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If its a small section of image that needs to be recolored, I'd do a manual re-coloring if it was me. I'd create a new transparent layer on top of my image, change its blending mode to overlay or multiply, select this layer and manually paint the color of my choice on the area that needs some repainting using a soft brush. If its a bigger area, I could simply paint at the sides first using the brush then use the bucket tool to fill the center. In contrary to using plugins, its gives me far more control and precision on my brush work, only that you'll need a steady hand. I could even apply just a very small value of Guassian blur so the repainted color kinda blends in with the rest with some sort of "transition fade" around the edges if the soft brush wasn't enough. I could then adjust the layer opacity or my color layer if I want it lighter in shade. Multiply and Overlay work the best for me and did some good image manipulations with this technique.
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I'm flattered by the response I'm getting so far.
Yeah, the color work gives it my unique touch to it.
Had to use that part of my artistic style to compensate for my lack of skill on the technical stuff (you know, using several plugins and calculated values to achieve an effect). :ViewPluginLoadErrors:I do some photography with a digital point and shoot camera as well
and enhance it with some of our great plugins. I have also developed a technique to make it look like as if it were taken by a DSLR.However, my best works usually came when there is a demand to do them, usually to impress someone else, the latest one being the red birthday card which was a ton of work, second only to my Christmas card. My only regret was that I should have made it with far higher resolution than 800x600 :Resize: :ZoomIn: so it becomes suitable for decent printing quality. :Print:
There is so much more to learn with PDN and more plugins waiting for me to discover.
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Thanks for the support Seerose.
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EER's technique with those neon edges set to color burn reproduce what is called the "cellophane" effect. Go check for examples of that online and you'll see.
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Try downloading a new installer package of PDN from the official download site and try the installation again.
Does installing it with English as preferred language do any good?
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You were trying to make a smoother textures to emulate a 3D effect right?
Well I was trying to achieve that with PDN until I found this tutorial.
http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/20608-extreme-hdr-tutorial/
I'm not sure, but I do think it relates to what you're trying to achieve.
Edit: You do have a comment there but it was a long time ago.
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I was hoping I could make a New Year's card but fell too lazy to do it. I had the idea.
I'm also working on a summer card but its left unfinished. I have employed my realistic "sunlight" effect in it that will actually hurt your eyes but the whole thing is half-way done.
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So you were trying to make an effect like those seen on games with realistic graphics?
Why not try a bit of the high-pass filter?
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Thanks Seerose. I was really trying to make a good impression with my work with colors. Glad someone pointed that out.
Thanks Helen. I have updated my post above with new images including two of my image manipulations. So far, I have no permission as of yet to post images with human subjects LOL and I have to use Google images to supply content on those that's why I wouldn't consider them authentically mine in all aspects.
Thanks for the feedback, keep them coming...
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Yeah, all those items were rendered on PDN thanks to plugins like Shape 3D, Guassian Blur and Bevel Selection that they got their depth. I am also a heavy gradient user that can be seen especially on my current sig and even on those items. That page flip on my second birthday card was one tricky bit as well and I added the rose that I have also drawn to add some class. I wanted more of those pop art stuff and I was planning for simple doodle art in the future should I learn it.
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Updated: January 23, 2017
Ok here it is! My time to finally show off. Here's my collection of PDN artworks over the past 2 years. I haven't been working at them too often but thanks to the tutorials I have adapted from this forum, I was able to come up with my very own art and technique. Though I'm not very skilled or a virtuoso, I made my artwork neat and satisfying. I'm not a fan of abstracts but I explore different forms of art from 3D to greeting card design to impress a few folks. I have not included my photo-manipulation gigs cause there are people involved with those.
I categorized them and linked them on these bit-sized image previews so its easier to load the page.
All the artwork you see are 100% PDN and thanks to our plugin authors for their priceless input. I appreciate them nice plugins. (The rose on the first birthday card was photographed by me.)
I am open to comments and suggestions from members of this forum. Have a great time..
3D Space Art
Greeting cards
Painting.NET
Banners and misc.
My photo manipulations were done on pictures taken by me using a digital point and shoot camera and a less-than-stellar phone camera. The ones here were also retouched on Paint.NET only. I haven't linked the ones with people as subjects cause I haven't got permission from those people to post their images on the forum. Anyways, these images are a bit high in resolution.
Photo Manipulations/Retouches
Paint NET- Putting a Person on a Background (with front light source)
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I would recommend you use a free program called Revo Uninstaller to uninstall Paint.NET. Use the "Advanced" option and allow it to remove orphaned registry and folder components of Paint.NET then try to install a fresh installer package of Paint.NET v.4.05 from the official download site.
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I had some sort of a sudden brainwave just now about what can be done with "online collaboration".
Maybe its not a bad idea if our little community has some sort of cliparts and designs gallery that you can access via PDN's interface that you could freely get cliparts and designs made and submitted by their authors, much like the cliparts you can get online on MS Office and the 3D warehouse on Sketchup. You can then paste these designs to decorate your work. I'm personally designing banners right now made entirely of PDN. The designs would of course have tags and categories in them so they could be filtered by search keywords. Not everyone would think this is a nice or a plausible idea but I think its worth fun.
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Get the latest installer version of Paint.NET here:
http://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdn.html
And to install it, you must have at least Windows 7 with SP1 and Microsoft's .NET Framework installed.
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I don't remember how exactly I got to Paint.NET. Maybe it was 3 years ago, a friend told me about this software but I might have actually seen it before he did. I did not pay much attention to it back then. I was a newbie at that time so I did not understand the layer system for these types of programs. I thought it was so confusing so I did not pay much attention to PDN. Back then I was relying on Windows 7's MS Paint for making edits and felt like a pro with it.
Then somebody asked me to create a transparent picture which is getting rid of the surrounding white background of a logo so I searched for a way and that's when I discovered what Paint.NET can do to make transparent PNGs. Photoshop is too heavy to use quickly on my machine so I had to settle with PDN. I learned about the layer system around the later months of 2012 when I had to use layers to trace a new outline for a map, paint its green then add a background. It turned out easy to understand. I was also looking at the simpler tutorials on Youtube and discovered how to change the eye color using a layer with Overlay blend mode and using certain plugins.
I discovered more and more of these plugins until around mid-2013 when somebody on Facebook asked me to edit, design and create banners. I was using them better, creating my own techniques and also learning new stuff on this forum until I was able to create semi-professional kinds of works such as a Christmas banner last 2013 and edits to impress my Facebook friends and I did some for them last Halloween. I also relied heavily on the Curves, Curves+ and Levels tools to enhance colors and lighting on several pictures, including my own photography. I had a decent amount of practice with that. My experiments with layers gave me the ability to apply that color filter on my profile picture which used to be black and white and even create my current sig entirely out of PDN.
I sure hope I get 80% as good as the real pros on this forum the near future though.
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That would be uneasy to reproduce because it seems to happen at random but it happened multiple times before.
Another bug with the gradient tool on PDN 4 is that when I try to render a colored gradient, it makes these pixelated blocks as I drag my cursor to the side rather than a smooth seamless gradient rendering. The blocks would disappear shortly after I release the left mouse button.
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I have noticed that switching between the colored gradient and transparency gradient would make the latter fail to do anything the next time you try to use it. It just wouldn't make the place transparent. Dragging my left mouse button to either direction wouldn't do anything and I noticed it on 4.03 and 4.05 (I skipped 4.04 btw). I had to restart PDN to make it work again.
I'm not certain of the exact order of event to reproduce this bug but for example, I use the color gradient, switch to another tool then I might try the transparency gradient, then switch to another tool again then when I get back to using the transparency gradient, it doesn't do its thing. I had to save my work then restart PDN.
I'm not sure if I'm the only one to encounter this problem.
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Why do I want to exclude any hidden or unused layers from flattening or merging?
In the type of edits and work that I do, there are certain elements found on different layers that I would want to be merged first because they have a combined function and but there are those that I want merged last because their function is different and the objects in them would become immovable if I merge them now with the layers of those with other, more important functions.
The copy merged feature only works for me if I CTRL+A select all one visible layer then CTRL+V paste the merged image into a new layer. If there is no active selection, it seems to be grayed out from the Edit menu.
I think the "Merge Visible" function would simplify this because you would not need to create a new layer and paste what's on the clipboard, but instead merges all visible layers into one with 2 clicks (Layer menu>>Merge Visible). You would not need an active selection as well.
And when I had 10-15 layers on a single project, I do think a Show All and Hide All feature for layers would help greatly.
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I think the Layer menu is needing these features. No need to flatten, save as .png and undo. I've seen Photoshop and Gimp have the Merge Visible feature so its about time we have it as well plus the "show all" and "hide all" thing..
I'm also thinking if it would do good (for some) to have an option to pin the tool windows.
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So what does anyone think of this idea?
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Ishi, your siggy is fun, colorful, and just brings me a smile.
Ishi gets my vote, because I could always use a little more sunshine on my gray days.
Thanks. Glad I could bring some sunshine above the clouds and color the gloomy gray.
Several people here can beat me at PDN at a technical standpoint, but at least I can groove with those fun colors that could really ease somebody's mood.
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I like to put this new banner that I'm using as an entry. Its 100% PDN.
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I can't see toe_head's sig either. It just shows the Imageshack banner and it links to his gallery if you click in it.
Anyways, I wanted to get into the next battle.
Had to use that part of my artistic style to compensate for my lack of skill on the technical stuff (you know, using several plugins and calculated values to achieve an effect). :ViewPluginLoadErrors:
and enhance it with some of our great plugins. I have also developed a technique to make it look like as if it were taken by a DSLR.
Seerose's Gallery - New Works August - 2020
in The Pictorium
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How did you make the latest one with 2 flowers and black background please?
Seerose, they should call you the "PDN Lotus"....