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Hmmm... I wonder how I could go about doing that... perspective maybe. Anyways, thank you so much for the recommendation!

I think he means the text tool. Impact isn't used for the menus. And if that is the case then as per the previous poster, what your need is antialiasing. Note however that turning this on will make the paint bucket not look as good, so I recommend you type text on a seperate, transparent layer.

Can open and save just fine here via the plugin

Yeah, that "History" is only for redo and undo. There isn't any way to attach that to an image since it, well, just isn't possible. Unless via Stenography.

If it is a PNG you can also try TinyPNG

I asked the same question before, and searched the same search, but the best answer I got was Quadrilateral Reshape (which is like what you're trying to do but the reverse). It was already mentioned here and probably the best you'll get for the time being.

Seems like it should be simple right? Mirror the image horizantally, then vertically. Then take the top right triangle and paste it over the new image. Unfortunately, that result in something different that expected. Take the following image (sorry for 5 second image and a lack of drawing skills): and here is what you get instead: Rotating the image 180 degrees gives same result. But I know this is possible, it has to be! I can draw a picture both in my mind and in theory of what it would look like. It can be done on paper, just paint one side and fold it over the other. And in theory you could rotate the image 45 degrees, slice it and mirror it that way, but then pixel accuracy is lost, not to mention is works only with perfect squares. So how is it done? Any plugin for this, or can it even be done without? What method am I missing? Is it possible at all with rectangles? I did try a plugin called Mirror / Flip, but it didn't seem to do anything I couldn't using Paint.NET's normal menu. Thanks for any help

Hmm, so something like that but with a custom shape rather than a sphere... and the source code is available, right there, so it doesn't seem that far off that at least it COULD, with some amount of work, be done. Interesting plugin suggestions!

That's okay! So this is about as close as it gets to what I want. Still really neat functionality even though it doesn't give me the ability to stretch that shape into a square. Well, thanks for all the recommendations. Maybe at the current time this is simply not possible and I'll just have to wait for a while until a solution is found. Of course if it doesn't really need to be precise, simply rotating the result appropriately and zooming in so it fills the canvas might do for now. Perhaps the better question is how exactly do you stretch a shape so it fills a rectangular area, like taking a spherical map of earth and changing it so that it is square with minimal distortion? I wouldn't even begin to claim that I know how the math behind that works, so for now, I might just have to stick to using a deprecated software to do the job. In any case thanks for everyone's help - it's the thought that counts!

@Goonfella ikr? Seems like the kind of thing a plugin would do, I don't know any C or C# or C++ or B or A or XYZ or whatever Paint.NET uses (I know some Javascript but that is completely different than Java never mind C, common misconception) so I couldn't make one myself. Though some plugins comes so close that maybe some simple modifications could be made rather than starting from scratch, given somebody knows the language well enough to change the code appropriately. @skullbonz thanks, but that isn't exactly what I'm looking for. The whole point is I want to be able to crop, but with a shape different than a rectangle, and then to be able to morph, distort or stretch that into a square/rectangular shape. Your suggestion is a good one, but it still isn't quite there yet. Thanks anyways though!

Yeah, maybe I'm just missing something but Evan Old's plugin does not seem to do what I'm trying to accomplish (see video) Thanks anyways. Any other suggestions?

I may be new on this forum but I'm not new to Paint.NET. It has been my image editor of choice for a very long time now, but I'm looking for an effect that I cannot quite seem to find anywhere, although I have found similar. What I am looking for is to crop an image, but not using a rectangle - I'd like to crop an image with a quadrilateral shape. Then, rather than there being white/transparent space around the cropped image, I'd like the cropped image to be stretched/distorted to fill the previous canvas. If you'd like a visual representation of what I'm trying to do, skip to 0:40 in this video: 0:40 through 1:05 details the kind of effect that I want to achieve in Paint.NET . I want to drag some knobs, or well "pushpins" over the image, click a button, and have the cropped selection fill the canvas' previous size. Now, I did find Evan Old's Quadrilateral Reshape plugin, and it does something along the same lines as what I want, but not the same - more like the opposite. The knobs stay on the outside of the shape and cannot go inside to crop the image, rather the image stays "stuck" to the outer knobs, which was disappointing because the screenshots suggested that I could do otherwise (the screenshot shows a reshape/matte tickbox which looks like it would do the job) but the option to invert the knobs to go inside is nowhere to be seen. I also found dpy's DistortThis (which does something similar to Evan Old's plugin) and the Perspective plugin (which is not what I am trying to accomplish either). I also saw Grid Warp come up, but I have no idea how that is relevant to the effect I need. Any help is appreciated. I'd like to stick to Paint.NET and plugins obviously, but I'd also welcome software suggestions, GIMP not included (eww) and 3dvia Shape not included either (obsolete software). (EDIT: spelling mistake)