NinthDesertDude

Some actions that you take might require you to click the canvas before the shortcut will work, but if it's persisting through restarting the program, it's external to paint.net. Maybe you've turned on an accessibility feature like sticky keys or filter keys by accident. Type those into start menu and make sure they're off. If that's not it, try a different keyboard. This tells us if it's a hardware error. If that doesn't work, try to reproduce this error on a completely different computer with the alternate keyboard from the last step. If you can get it to fail there, we need to know all the steps you did in enough detail that we can reproduce the error ourselves, to confirm if it's a bug. Useful info to provide: - what is the shortcut that's not working? Name one that you tested does not work. - what is the state of the program and the last few steps you did before you found it wasn't working?

Reproduces 100% of the time under these exact conditions: - Arial size 12 font, no antialiasing - Image size is 400x687 - Mark the pixel at location 120,636 - Write the word "Instability" and position it so the top pixel of the first letter I is at position 120,636 - Press escape to confirm the text. It should change incorrectly Seems this position also affects some other font sizes. The excess space below or to the right can be any size.

Yep, they already got the more involved answers, but they seem to be "upset first, understand later". So I figured they'd like the very direct answer, without a lot to read so they don't lose patience. It's not the best due to selecting anti-aliased pixels and such, but my hunch is they don't know all those concepts and have little interest just yet.

magic wand tool. Press S four times in a row to switch to that tool. It's also on the sidebar. Click the shape. Done

Maybe it's because aliased pixel mode will round to the pixel grid, but all the points in the screenshot are evenly spaced so it's unlikely you messed with that. When I tested this, it actually prefers rounding up, not down. So if the drag point is above middle, it fills the pixel above. That's opposite to what's shown. This is odd behavior. I tested the 4 permutations of drawing near the top/bottom of the starting pixel to the top/bottom of the ending pixel and they all draw the same as you'd normally expect, so I can't repro the bug easily.

Paint.net is free, just not via the Windows Store, probably because it costs something to make it available there. People who buy through it are considered to be donating (which the author much appreciates), but it's not required if you're fine with having it not through the Store. It's odd that it would cost you twice, in any case. I'd think the windows store would keep track of things you already purchased. I can't give you much advice about this, but you can run any program as an administrator if your user account has access. Just type paint.net in the search bar on Windows, right-click it and press "run as administrator". You will get a prompt from UAC (user account control) saying are you sure? Click yes. Then try to open the image and print it. If that doesn't work, it's possible you have some other issue with the printer (though you said it works normally on other apps). Maybe it could be an issue that only paint.net sees because of how PDN has it configured. Or it could be a bug in the new version, but I'd go through those steps first.

How big are the pictures in this thread? I get a thin bar of each picture as it loads and then it gives up. Internet working fine elsewhere at ~110 mb/s download speed. I'm guessing these are photo-sized and .png. Either that or postimg refuses to serve this much data to me. I can't see what the filter is supposed to do, so if you can resize the pictures, that would be cool

+1, I save as JPG with high quality % when I take things off the web for screensavers (to give a real-world concrete case). Better than random formats like webp with its shaky support (still!)

You can ask questions here, dig through the help manual, find generic paint.net help online probably. There's no special technique for ironing out image AI problems. Everyone is on the forum. There's some unaffiliated discord here but it's barely alive. Touching up photo-like images is usually going to make use of clone stamp, using the brush with 0 hardness, and a lot of contrast or HSV adjustment

+1 on drawing a circle from the center. Should be default behavior. I am always repositioning circles after they're drawn. Continuous line drawing would be nice, but it's of small value since you can stop moving the mouse, press enter, and start again (for the most part, anyway; this sucks for beziers because you usually move the mouse away from the end tip). I think holding shift to constrain to 90 degree angles for lines is easy enough, shouldn't be necessary to add. Of course, even if these are added, I don't see why you would want to continue using paint.net for technical drawing where Coreldraw, google sketchup, autoCAD etc. all provide one absolutely essential workflow that is way out of scope for paint.net: snapping to geometry.

Oh, I didn't even know that was there. Awesome, I'll try that and the scrollbar fix later today. Looks like they both worked right away.

It does, but mine's big enough to have sub-forms.

tl;dr I'm doing a bunch of things on my main plugin again, and I've themed everything except scrollbars and title bars. Winforms doesn't play well with those whatsoever. If anyone has themed versions of those for Winforms, I'd love to get a copy for Dynamic Draw -- I've looked into both and I know titlebar themeing is P/Invoke while scrollbars have to be fully rebuilt. Tips or pointers to anything simpler would be helpful. Thanks for reading Edit: I should add that yes, I've definitely tried Midora's suggestions above. They were the first

This sounds like a general computer issue rather than a paint.net one. Does it only happen in paint.net, have you tested for long periods of time in other apps, maybe intensive apps or apps that clearly make use of the GPU like games?

To cancel a selection, press escape. You may also be able to find information in the documentation.

It looks like the entire canvas is visible in this picture. You have it fully occupied by opaque pixels from the two layers above the one you're posting, so you won't see anything. (Also, the size of the image you're posting is much larger than the canvas, so most of it will be lost when you're done pasting.) Click the checkmarks next to the layers (bottom right) that are above the current layer, and they will be invisible. Then you can see what you're posting. Or move the current layer above them, either or.

I'm not sure if there's a distort that does it mathematically, but you can manually do the same with Grid Warp. Here's the plugin index to search for plugins: https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/15260-plugin-index/ Here's the link to grid warp: https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/25327-grid-warp/

color profiles that aren't the unedited sRGB colorspace is a thing that appeals to gamers and office professionals, etc. You never want to be working on an image with a filtered color profile because it will be off-color to everyone else. Working in linear sRGB is the standard.

On Windows 10 64-bit Home on PDN 4.3.11, if I switch the theme between dark and light modes, the floating dockable panes (Color / History / Tools / Layers) do not refresh the window titlebar colors immediately (they will if I switch back and forth between windows though). More importantly, constantly opening and closing paint.net to test theming for my plugin & investigating what the above issue is has caused paint.net to stop, apparently, saving the preferences (any of them). That includes not just the User Interface tab but also the Tools tab. I'm not sure what broke here, but it was definitely saving the theme changes at the start of all this testing, and restoring them as expected when starting paint.net again. If this data is saved to the registry or a file, I could take a look at it to do whatever testing you might think of. Or any other specs you want me to share.

I'm amazed that linked thread even has as much interest as it does. If you remember O and B you can do this in a split-second Press O -> draw line and confirm -> press B This is actually a feature I don't think is necessary to be honest since the output is identical. If the brush tool gets custom images or other functionality in the future, then it would make more sense as the output would be unique.

Tested In paint.net version 4.3.11. Cropping when overscrolling is on results in the following behavior. I think it'd be better if it auto-centered afterwards.

This isn't a bug report, it's a design discussion because I think the current behavior is intended. The recolor tool is currently designed to interpolate alpha of affected pixels to be a value between what they were and the desired color (the same as it does with the RGB channels), based on tolerance (or so I think that's what it's doing). Here are some visual examples of why I think that's undesirable: So what I'm showing here is how the recolor tool behaves when you tell it to replace a pixel color that has an alpha value between 0 and 255. I'm also making it clear that all those in-between values produce visual artifacts that get in the way of work. I see two possible solutions to this design: 1. The replacement color is treated as having 255 alpha. This isn't really a fix as much as a band-aid, but it at least avoids the artifacts. 2. Don't adjust the final alpha values of any pixel. They should be exactly as they were, and the Recolor tool is designed to change only color, not alpha. Then everything would be very coherent and artifact-free. Thoughts?

Whether or not anything happens with these (which I can't speak to), thanks for brainstorming and the animations. Here's my thoughts as a user: Ends: maybe useful for someone, I wouldn't need it. Interval: maybe useful for someone. I take it the 2nd % box in the animation is for staggering the dots (it's unspecified) Radius: not too useful, I think people will just move points around as needed. Having more points solves this issue Points: very useful particularly when tracing circular things. iirc we had a plugin for 6 point beziers once, so the demand exists. Maybe just drop it in settings instead of on the command bar Gradient: seems useful, though adding these options would warrant adding gradients to shapes and other tools, so it's a bigger work item already. (though I think an alpha lock might be a higher value add that enables a reasonable workaround for gradient lines)

Right now I just use sobel on a raster image, no geometry. Though I know I can normalize the alpha difference so the average is close to 255 and then clear it up with a high alpha threshold. For a lot of reasons, I'll be switching to D2D eventually, I just didn't know it was an option. Meanwhile I'll wait to see if Trevor says the half-opaque brush image as a cursor is serviceable.

@TrevorOutlawI tried it via sobel operation and while it works, the fact that an outline goes around the pixels, instead of occupying the same spot as the pixels, makes it in some cases look pretty ugly, e.g. with the dots brush. Muddy/dirty textures also end up with scribbly looking outlines. I could do what Pixlr probably does and set some kind of alpha threshold, but then you're not seeing the full brush shape. Far easier to just render the brush at half opacity as the cursor (this is actually less work in terms of performance too). Does that work? Is there a reason you'd want the outline instead? I'd think using the actual brush at half opacity as the cursor will lead to the best ability to line up pixels before clicking.