Ishi

I have seen only a few of your Youtube tutorials and I subscribed to your channel because I was so amazed by your talent. You are a PDN god! Mere mortals like me can only gaze upon the layers touched by your power, your grace. And yet you share to us the secrets of your magic. Many of us can only dream.

If you're not too busy, why not volunteer yourself to a manga website to do some cleaning and coloring of the manga pages? Or maybe you are on your way to be one. They could always use some help. I see you have not (yet) attempted to color the skins and faces of those manga characters on that page you posted above. A light peachy color will do. I used to read manga too, finished reading some real good manga stories on sites like Mangafox but that was before I learned Paint.NET, sad that some stories never got their preceding chapters though.

Is this whole logo sitting on one transparent layer? I don't know if you tried a plugin called AA's Assistant before. Its one of my favorites as it smoothens the edges.

Dunno, maybe over a year with PDN but not much toying, not serious, only sometimes until last June when somebody on Facebook asked to me design a banner so that's when I became more familiar with the tools. I got serious, did my experiments with 3D art, primarily relying on stuff like Gaussian Blur, Gradients, Bevel Selection, Outline Object, Drop Shadow, Shape 3D, Clouds, Dents and AA's Assistant. Those are the things I used to create the greeting card objects. I had to manually draw a lot with a brush and the line/curve tool. I love what I did with the bell, the gingerbread and the snowman. Thought I'd impress my Facebook friends with it...

Thanks for the compliment Helen. I appreciate that very well. At least, a real PDN pro noticed my greeting card and think it ain't so bad. Thought I'd make something that suits the holiday so I designed that. Merry Christmas to you too!

I'd pretty much use Effects>Blurs>Gaussian Blur on any coloring where I want blurred edges. I think It'll do just fine for the spray painted effect. Here is one I did with a graffiti font and a concrete texture with the help from this Concrete Texture Tutorial If you have not yet tried the Alpha Build of paint.NET 4, I recommend you try it because it comes with a softness adjustable brush that you can use so your brush strokes have faded edges to give it that spray painted effect.

I think its technically very difficult and time consuming to retrace manga drawing in Paint.NET, especially without a drawing tablet. You can paste a manga image such as that on a background layer then add another layer, select that second layer and draw the lines manually using the Line/Curve tool, with a different color such as dark blue or red and fill the gaps using the Paint Bucket then just use the Recolor tool to change the traced lines to black later on. I think you better stick with just coloring the manga pages. Maybe use a secondary top layer with either a Multiply or Darken blending mode to put the color on because they work great on coloring black and white images. You are doing pretty OK. I just did this on a doodle art I found on Facebook a few days ago. It was all black and white so I colored it. I also found a way to color the objects and characters there with a gradient so they sort of have shadings in them..

I am new with Paint.NET obviously but I managed to create my own Christmas Card. I had to draw every single detail. Its 100% PDN. And Merry Christmas everyone..

Thank you for your info. This is the first time I used Megalo Pack. Its just that I have not tried it before and I just tested it along with this new alpha build on my test machine. I have not yet tried the compilation of plugins that I currently use on my my main machine to my test machine with this alpha version installed. I will continue to use v 3.5.11 though until a more refined version 4 comes in. Once again, thanks for the warning.

Just tried this latest alpha version. I love how smooth it runs so great job on that one mate. And yes, I love the softness adjustable brush. Only problem is that many of the plugins from the Megalo Pack would just crash.

Would it be possible to add a blur brush, dodge brush in the near future? Looking forward to try this alpha build soon..

Yeah, thanks for the Multiply-Color Burn-Reflect-Additive formula.

Thanks. I found out about it and now my planet has a ring. I don't like using Radial Blur so I manually created 2 grayish rings on one layer, centered 2 of them together and used Guassian Blur then rotated them to an angle.

You know, I had a lot of interest in planets when I was in highschool. This could be my chance to finally create my artist impressions of extrasolar worlds that exist beyond the realm of our solar system. I have yet to master the manipulation of Clouds and Dents I gotta get that rotate layer plugin to make those rings..

I just had a run through this tutorial today but anyways, I decided not to go technical and applied my own techniques at the later parts. I'm also very new to this forum as I've recently just getting used to Paint.NET. All hail to the Clouds and Dents effects.. Its my first try on this one. But its not bad for a beginner right? http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/pp80/Billthebad/PlanetandMoon.png?t=1369403093