Ishi
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OK some great plugins suggestion guys. Thanks Lynxster, EER, MJW and Madjik.
I think its about time for Christmas in less than a month.
Now I have to think on how to put those snowflakes together and make a compelling design. Of course I want it build on PDN from the ground up.
The theme is supposed to be White Christmas but I'm not gonna make it entirely white.
I was thinking maybe the snowflakes of course but with bokeh type candlelight at the back and with the title font snowy and if possible made of Christmas decor. This will be fun.
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I wanted to create a White Christmas background for party and I wanted to start from scratch. It will be printed on a 7 foot layout for a makeshift stage. I need artistic suggestions please.
And I wanted to make realistic snowflakes with the glass-like features and all. Do we have shapespack for that? And by the way, the links for downloading the Koch Snowflake Fractal would download a file without an extension that I have to rename it with a .zip for it to work.
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Apparently I struggle with that. Completely transparent pixels/areas INSIDE selections are not ignored and would erase anything on the same layer that it touches when the selection is moved around. Very inconvenient for moving letters for me.
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Thanks again Rick.
I have skipped v4.0.18. Thought I'd wait for feedback before upgrading and will do so for this one as well.
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I know none of the built-in effects have small image previews. It looks as if it was a combination of effects than one plugin but try what Madjik had suggested.
There are some other methods and plugins to try to re-create the effect which I think is rather cool. I can imagine a font like that be used on some cover of a mystery novel or something.
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I'm not sure I get you correctly.
Maybe care to show us an example of what you are trying to achieve?
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That's easy enough. All you had to do is to have your scene as the Background layer and basically you trace out the person from your original image and put him on a top layer.
For your blending example, you only have to have separate layers for each of the diver's positions.
Take a look at my video of how I would approach something like this.
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Yes, image compositing and blending are possible on Paint.NET because we have layer support and it would not take as much resources as Photoshop to achieve. I can do it but I think I would find very handy the plugins such as AA's Assistant, Feather and Liquify for that. I have been playing and made my own movie and game spoof posters for that.
Are there any specifics on the type of compositing and blending you want to achieve?
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This is amazing. I think you can do a 3D-ish chess piece on this and many more! If you could combine shapes that it supports.
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Welcome to the forums.
That's easy enough, all you had to do was CTRL+A to select the whole image on the active layer, hold your right-mouse button and drag it to the left or right to rotate the whole image.
When using any of the selection tools (Rectangular select
, Lasso select
, Ellipse select
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Move Selected Pixels
tool then hold your right-mouse button and drag it to the left or right to rotate the selection.
You may also try the Advanced Rotate plugin as part of this plugin pack.
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Thanks for the tutorial.
Additionally, if you want smaller and finer, sand-like dissolving particles, you can duplicate the layers with the scattering particles on, go to Effects>>Distort>>Frosted Glass and play around with the maximum and minimum scatter radius. I have gotten to use the built-in Frosted Glass effect for sand-like dissolving textures and I think, that built-in plugin needed some love and would make this technique even better.
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I love the transparent selection feature of MS Paint because it could do me wonders before I learned Paint.NET and how to work with layers.
Basically, I have a background image opened on one MS Paint window and lets say an image of a person opened on another MS Paint window which I would trace out and make sure that it is completely surrounded by white before copy-pasting it to the background image with the transparent selection enabled on both windows. There was jaggedness of course because MS Paint does not have a good feathering feature (but I know a technique how to do some of it on MS Paint).
It makes a lot of sense on a program like MS Paint that has no layer support.
However, I think a variation of this "transparent selection" idea may just be useful on some situations like for moving text on the same layer. Because if I create a selection on a single letter and use the Move Selected Pixels tool to move that letter, the boundaries of my selection would force transparency on anything else outside that it touches, including other letters. I have encountered this quite a number of times, that I had to create another layer, paste my single letter there so I could move it freely without distorting the other letters. I think it would be an OK addition to "Move Selected Pixels" tool.
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Try Boltbait's Plugin pack.
There is a plugin there called Remove Dust. That should help with reducing the grain.
Once installed, Remove Dust should be under Effects>>Photo.
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What I would do is manually erase the gray near the "headshine" using the Eraser tool but with really low Hardness. Lets say 0 hardness on the Eraser tool. This makes erasing very smooth around the radius of your Eraser so you could retain that "headshine". Carefully erase every bit of gray that surrounds the "headshine" so erase the gray around the shoulders and the woman's hand as well.
And when the area surrounding the "headshine" is totally devoid of any gray, use the Magic Wand to select the rest of the gray wall for deletion. Adjust your Tolerance as IRON67 suggests and see which percentage gives the most pleasing result of not including the areas you don't want to delete.
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The portable mode is what intrigues me on this when I read about the v.4.0.17. Will wait for feedback from the others though.
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Some simple and effective technique there Madjik. Great results on PDN without the complicated masks like some would do on Photoshop.
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Yes its possible. I'd imagine black and white image of a face then create an empty layer on top of it. On this empty layer, manually paint the areas of the face with different colors, using a really soft brush. Apply a Gaussian blur to improve the color blending then change the blending mode of that layer. Something like Multiply or maybe Color Dodge will do. I guess you'll have to see it for yourself.
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What I would do on the first picture is manually copy-paste segments of those torn away pieces of the face, manual rotate and position those in random places.
On the second picture, it would help if you have an existing rough texture, I'd just add a layer on top of it then paste a black and white image of a face on this empty layer, manually position it, lower that layer's opacity and experiment which blending mode works best and see if it mimics that effect.
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Well IMHO, the zooming option in XPs Paint is terrible. I prefer the Windows 7 Paint because it has a zoom slider at the bottom right and the ribbon interface works in it for me. Plus there are more fun shapes, brush styles and fill options. In fact, I have gained some skill with Windows 7's Paint and have made a video of it.
If you watch the whole video, I was able to achieve quite some tricks with it. There is another trick I have discovered with Windows 7's Paint that was not on the video and that I haven't yet publicly shown.
But few months later after I made that video, I was challenged to start using layers so that's when I started really toying with Paint.NET and discovered the wonderful world of using layers and plugins that were otherwise not possible to do on MS Paint (where some work required me to use two Paint windows). That made my life easier and my projects more neat and complex. Another drawback if I haven't made the move is that any of Microsoft's Paint versions don't have the API (application programming interface) to expand its current features or abilities such as plugins that you can install on programs like Photoshop, GIMP and Paint.NET.
And I was glad that I opened my mind to other possibilities. I thought I was some sort of MS Paint guru but putting that against a skilled Paint.NET user, its a far cry. Excellent art is still very possible for MS Paint and anyone can still freely choose this above others but in terms of effects and tools that distort and modify objects to make it look like something else, Paint.NET wins by a margin.
I guess we are all entitled to what we believe of how our work should be done but its another thing entirely to insist that our belief should correspond to what others think when they have found debatable solutions that are easier and more effective to them. And its rather healthier if we are all learners in our stance and open to new ideas than be entitled with a feeling of ascendancy to impose upon other people's preference.
Good luck.
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Simply lowering the opacity of the layer from the Layer Properties can produce a glass-like effect on any solid or opaque layer. Also experiment with blending modes.
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I am personally used to tracing out things with a soft eraser if I don't feel like using the magic wand. The soft eraser makes soft edges too.
Additionally, I would recommend a plugin called AA's Assistant for trace-out works to smooth the edges and because this plugin is also used very frequently on tutorials. AA's Assistant is found as part of this plugin pack.
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They are awesome. I love the fact that they are PDN-made and that the tutorials have made interesting paperback covers. Been reading some books lately and I also wonder hoe the covers were designed. What font are those?
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I have found out that Laplacian Pyramid Filter plugin could be of good help to this method of HDRs. Its now one of my favorite plugins.
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Well thanks Beta0, Maximillian and LionsDragon.
I assume those guys in the printshop use pre-amde elements on their work cause they needed it done fast but there is no denying that Photoshop has an advantage with polished fonts. I am well capable of those font styles they use on PDN but it would be a little more crude I believe.
But as a PDN artist, I start from scratch and I take pride in that. As of now, I havent come up with anything yet cause when he called me days ago, he told me that the list of participants are not even complete and final yet. And I need the list so I can fit them into the canvass and see what works best. I have an outdated digital camera, served me well for almost 6 years now and so I used it on another wedding event last Tuesday as an unofficial photographer when I later had a most hilarious moment at the hall with the bridesmaid who happen to have caught the flower bouquet with maybe 3 dozen people present. I have traced out selected flower images from the photography into PNGs that I plan to use on the card.
@LionsDragon You are very right with vector graphics. They are well too smooth and fine for us to replicate on PDN. Their neatness is such a must have for design.
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, Lasso select
, Ellipse select
), you can click on
tool then hold your right-mouse button and drag it to the left or right to rotate the selection.
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