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How did you make this portable?

Well after some Google search, Intel Texture Works is a plugin for Photoshop. Try PSFilterPDN. Its an amazing plugin for Paint.NET that hosts Photoshop plugins so hopefully, it can host this Intel Texture Works as well.

That's a real complicated perfume bottle you got there. Mind making a tutorial with a simpler version of the bottle design for us folks who would wanna try it? And nice comeback too!

Do you have .NET Framework 4.6.1 installed? If you don't, Paint.NET 4.0.8 needs that. Here's the installation package for .NET Framework 4.6.1. Try installing that and attempt to install Paint.NET again. Some others have also complained that they have trouble installing or uninstalling Paint.NET on Windows 10.

Well as for your example above, I can imagine copying the second half of the imagine into another layer and rotating it from there either manually and merging both layers. Then just smoothen the joints of the folding part using the Blur tool of TR's Dodge and Burn. You may also check out Boltbait's Seam Carving plugin.

Pretty convincing, Datalink. There are images where repetition wouldn't be very noticeable.

Well there's an issue about that on the previous version of PDN which is 4.0.7 which was immediately updated after such bug was found. If you have done the update through the built-in updater in PDN, try installing PDN 4.0.8 using a standalone installer which you can download from this link. http://www.dotpdn.com/downloads/pdn.html

Here it is. The contents of PdnSetupShim.log --- paint.net SetupShim starting, lpCmdLine='/suppressReboot', nCmdShow=10 CoInitialize(NULL) returned 0 Checking OS requirement bIsWin7SP1 = true bResult = true EnsureOSRequirement() returned 0 Called EnsureTrustedInstallerIsEnabledAsync() Checking .NET requirement bIsNetfx46Installed = false bIsSupportedNetfxInstalled = false bIsNetfxInstallerPresent = true PreInstallPrompt() returned true InstallNetfx() returned 5100 Sleep(1000) --- Exiting, nReturnVal=13ec I also noticed that there are a number of HTML files related to .NET Framework 4.6.1 inside the Temp folder. I will attach one of those HTMLs. Opening them via web browser says that a specific Windows update is needed to install .NET Framework 4.6.1. I will be installing a standalone installer of one such update called KB2919355 before attempting another install of PDN 4.0.7 that attempts to install .NET Framework 4.6.1 for me. I have also attached a screenshot of the install error. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1 Setup_20151231_121804596.html

Thanks for the update but I have an installation issue. After the stage where it says it will install Dot net Framework and Paint.NET, it goes to the part where it extracts the files, then I noticed from the Task Manager that the "paint.net.4.0.7.install.exe" just disappears suddenly and the installation never completes. I have tried multiples times but to no avail. I am using Windows 8.1 Pro, 32 Bit. As of this point, I'm still on v 4.06.

What I meant was the Desaturate tool would not do anything, would not decrease the saturation of the clicked area, even with maxed intensity unless I switched to another tool and go back to Desaturate. This happens randomly but rare. I open and close the plugin window but its not easy to reproduce. I keep testing it on the same image. That was from v 1.3.22. However, its now more reliable than the previous versions, v. 1.3.20 and v.1.3.21. I will now try the latest version and see the additional stuff. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Update: The issue still happens with Desaturate sometimes.

Will try it now. Again that was a quick fix. Thanks.

I am still experiencing some inconveniences. For instance, Desaturate doesn't always work on the first try no matter if I enable or disable lock shade. Only when I switch to another tool then switch back to Desaturate does it work. This also occurred to the Blur tool after I switched to it from another tool. These may happen at random at repeated instances of opening and closing of the plugin window and of the PDN program itself so this may be harder to diagnose.

Thanks TR. It took merely 20 minutes from the time you confirmed this was bug till the time you posted an update of the plugin. That was such as a quick fix. Keep up the great work.

For your second question, you want the layer technology of programs like PDN to be applied on word processing programs so you could hide and unhide copy-editing marks right? I think the reason no one made word processing programs with the "layer" technology is because not many have seen its potential. Even if they did, there will be a backward compatibility and file format issue. If it had been applied on a word processing program say MS Word 15 years ago, its possible it would have thrived today. Say you applied this technology to a future version of MS Word. You can't save a document there with a hidden copy-editing info layer to .doc or .docx. It had to be a new and different format which is not compatible with older versions of MS Word or other third party programs like Open Office. It would be impractical for lots of users so the user base and enterprise would see no sense of this feature and no sense in upgrading to this version of MS Word which would cost them money. If you intend to save that file to .doc or .docx, the program had no choice but to remove the "layer" and all you get is a flat non-layered document but is usable on older versions of the word processing program and the third parties. You see this on PDN when you save the file as .jpg for example. You have no choice but to flatten/combine all the layers into a flat image when saving to a .jpg which is universally compatible on other image-viewing programs.

Thanks. It responds better now with lock shade enabled. However, I seem to have observed that if I enable lock shade with the blur tool, then I switch to another tool such as dodge, clicking part of the picture still blurs it rather than apply a dodge effect. This goes on when I switch to the other tools as well and only if I uncheck and re-check the lock shade checkbox does it fixes this issue and allows the other tools to do their function rather blur. Is this a bug? Anyway, thanks again for responding. If I see more stuff that needs attention, I will let you know.

OK, try downloading the PDN v.4.06 installer again so you have a new installer file. Another thing I can think of is right clicking the installer file of Paint.NET, Properties>>Compatibility and run it as compatibility mode for either Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1, then run the installer file. See if it continues this time. Else, maybe you should try an earlier version of Paint.NET and its available for download on some website called Filehippo. Its not officially authorized by the PDN developer to host downloading of earlier versions of this program but from there, you're at your own risk.

I am well aware of that Eli. I move my unused effects on a subfolder called "Unused" inside the Effects folder. Sometimes I would even move some DLLs if I am to add a new DLL. The theory goes is that the less plugins you load, the more space in the memory you would have for your remaining plugins to use. I would rule out this cluttered plugins issue. However, I have repeatedly experienced slow rendering issues with a number of TR's plugins so I suspect it may be something in the common rendering algorithm he uses in the code of his plugins that's causing a delay in rendering on the kind of computer that I use. It might be an isolated issue with the particular processor or Asus brand netbook that I use but still, it poses a disadvantage for me and maybe some others who have lower specs or have a machine with comparable architecture. I was trying to blur parts of an image last night when I find it inconvenient that the blur tool is not immediately blurring the areas as I click. It was even a low resolution image. This is not the first time it happened. Plugins like Pyrochild's Smudge and Liquify seem to work OK but the latter has understandably delay and crashing issues, often only with very large images. I have tested Photoshop on this machine as well but its native Blur tool seems to work without delay or any issue. I hope there could be a fix because I'm a fan of this particular plugin because of its great potential. I even wanted it to be ported on the main Tools window of PDN.

Hello TR, My issue with this plugin is that it seems to render slow on my computer. For instance, when I use the blur function, there are a few second delays before it does the blurring on the selected area. I seem to have experienced slow rendering issues with some of your plugins that I tried, one of which is the Bokeh plugin I have told you about last year. It has to do with some of your rendering algorithm perhaps? I use a low spec netbook machine. Its specs are : Windows 8.1 2GB RAM Processor Intel® Atom CPU N2600 @ 1.60GHz, 1600 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s) If there's anything you can do to improve the rendering speed of your plugins for machines with specs comparable to mine, that would be greatly appreciated as that would mean better usability of your plugins for low end computers as well. This happens on low resolution images as well. Thank you.

Nice work on your latest pieces Limon. If I may suggest anything, I would say, they would look better if they had more roughness and stronger shadows. Anyways, keep it up.

Try installing updates for Windows 10 via Windows Updates then download a fresh new installer of Paint.NET v4.06 and try installing from it.

The plugin should better come as a .dll file when you download it. I see that it does come with a .dll format but do you have a third-party downloader program that automatically open this .dll file after download? If so, make it stop auto-opening your downloaded file. You don't have to open this .dll file because no program in the computer can open it directly. You have to copy this .dll file from your download folder to C:\Program Files\Paint.net\Effects directory. Make sure Paint.NET is closed when you do this or restart it so that the new plugin DLL gets loaded the next time it opens.

Ah that's a technical bit. Have to try some if I get the effort. Its the shiny/polished types, not my cup of tea. Interesting use of gradients and bevels to make the gem facets. How do you draw those hexagonal and polygonal shapes by the way? Someone with enough effort, time, patience and technique might just make a gem galore out of this tutorial. Thanks Red Ochre.

Thank you all. Its my first SOTW win actually. Congratulations to Si Borg, BarbieQ and BoltBait but everyone else deserves praise! My favorite among the others would be Limon's flag entry. I love that crystal orb.

Yeah that's right. I thought Pixey's original entry submission thread was to be modified to allow the voting. Turns out another thread has to be started by another host.