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MikeRobe

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  1. 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! :)

  2. There's a lot of variation in your image styles, so I'll help with the first one :P

     

    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... :P)

  3. 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 :P

  4. I'll quote myself on a crash course I did for someone else about layers :P

     

     


    Layers in Paint.NET work a lot like a stack of paper, as you'd expect.

     

    As you've said though, you want to know how to use them. So to begin with, make sure your layer window is open. You'll see a little square with a + on the bottom bar of that window. Click it and hooray, you've got a new layer. Now you can click between them using the window, and whatever changes you make on that layer will only affect that layer. Suppose you want to overlay a picture of a plate onto a table. Create a new canvas, make a new layer. Go to your first layer (the bottom one) and then paste in your image of the tabletop. Go to the top layer and paste in your plate image. You can move this plate around however much you want and it won't affect the table. If it has a background on it, you could use the magic wand tool to remove it. Note that in the layers window there is an image of a nametag and pencil where you can change the opacity and blend mode of the layer to the layer/s below.

    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. :)

  5. 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 :)

  6. 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! :)

  7. Hi regevdl! Welcome to the forums!

     

    As I understand, you want to print a pixelated photo? To do this in PDN, you can go to Effects > Distort > Pixelate. There you should be able to change the level of pixelation to your desire.

    Then just print out the image at the size you want. :)

     

    Let me know if I've misunderstood! ;)

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