MikeRobe

Well, resizing the image does what it says on the tin. Resizing the canvas simply makes the canvas bigger without transforming the image in any way, even by size. All resizing the canvas will do is create white area around the image, while not changing the size of the image itself.

If you want to change the yellow pixels to your other colour, you can also use the magic wand tool (while holding shift) to select the yellow pixels and the fill tool to fill in those pixels to your secondary colour. Just a workaround - I might be missing the point entirely!

Yep, as EER said - if it's pixelated, use a larger canvas. Resizing will only blur the image and make approximations, so you need to make sure from the start to use a larger canvas and scale it down if you need to.

What happened to this thread? In case it's just me, i'll explain - it looks like 3- 4 posts were repeated over and over? Or maybe I'm just crazy..

Hi Jonathan, welcome to the forums! What you could do is get your picture on the bottom layer, your white background on the top layer. Now select the gradient tool with the white background layer selected. Now what you want to do, is at the top bar there should be what looks like a colour wheel next to the options for the gradient. Click it once, and it should change to a sort of checkerboard tile. Now select the linear gradient instead of half linear, and right click in the middle of the picture, hold shift and drag off to the left or right. This should give you the effect you want!

Yeah, I've been trying out some abstract stuff and messing around with effects. In the end I'll probably go back to spacescapes.

Wow, those are really nice wallpapers! I third the idea of you making a gallery!

Oh, well in that case, thank you too Pixey!

Thanks EER! Much obliged!

Yes, but I seem to get a "Problem Loading Page" error when trying to download the file.

Now, I was looking forward to finding and downloading the Octagonal/Quad Reshape plugin, but it seems the website that I would download it from is no longer valid. Is there another plugin similar, or another download location for the plugin? Much appreciated

There's another two! "Yon and Ying" and "Astral". At the moment it seems like I don't have a particular style.

There's a lot of variation in your image styles, so I'll help with the first one Now, let me think...if you're using Windows, navigate to your Paint.Net folder in Program Files. Go into the effects folder and drag all of the .dll's into that folder from that plugin pack. If you want, you could just drag the threshold one across. I was trying out the threshold plugin the other day to see what I could do, and I found a good way to make a heavily shaded image, similar to some things you've wanted. First, get a base image or a photo or a good quality drawing with colour and shading, or something similar. Duplicate the layer 2-4 times, higher if you want more detailed shading, lower if you want more cartoony shading. Then on the top layer, apply threshold to what looks good for a really dark shading. It'll be black and white, but you should be able to colour it in later if you want. Set the opacity of that layer to about halfway. On the next layer down, apply threshold again, but set the sliders to a different setting. If you have more layers underneath, set the opacity to halfway again. Repeat for the amount of layers you have, but make sure your last layer before the background is not translucent. Make a new layer underneath all of this and paste in your background there. You can colour in the image with any method you like, this was just to achieve the shading (hopefully... )

I'm sure I've heard of something that does this, but I cannot for the life of me know what it's called. It's most likely a plugin.

Welcome to the forums Rhaonoa Well, you could try getting the awesomely handy Threshold plugin - http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/18811-ed-harvey-effects-v-35-2012-02-13/ (But you'd have to download the whole plugin pack, since I don't think they come seperately) Then you could make a new layer with a different blend mode and colour in the image. Just ideas, you'd have to see what other people reply. I don't do that sort of style very often so I'm not 100% sure what I'm talking about

I'll quote myself on a crash course I did for someone else about layers Also, the checkbox shows and hides the entire layer, so if you want to not see a particular layer, just untick the checkbox and it'll disappear. Click it again to make it show up.

Cool, thanks EER.

Hi MisterBeginner, welcome to the forums. Is this a question to do with a picture you've made on Paint.Net? If so, please post screenshots and provide a better explanation of what you want help with. If this is a medical issue then I would suggest either asking on a health forum or seeing an optometrist.

Well, I'm still using version 3, as I don't want to have to sort out which effects are compatible, but if there is such a slider in version 4, then I will use it. I assume most of the plugin packs are compatible, but I do have some standalone ones. I'll have to check through them. Thanks

You're welcome!

I would love to have some custom brushes to use with clone stamp tool, because the default one is too rigid and I have to copy the picture to CS6 to smooth out seams. I'd love to not have to deal with CS3 (loading times) and just use PDN. Is there a tutorial I can use to install/make custom brushes? Thanks guys!

Ah, now I have the solution for you. You can lighten the lines to a grey tone, then you can apply Sepia to get colour in it. Then you can change the Hue/Sat as you like. There are better ways involving plugins, but this is an easy way to do so with no plugins

Not as far as I know, but then again I'm not the publisher! Let's see if any plugin developers reply

I always say that if you have enough plugins, PDN can be as good as photoshop anyway!