IRON67

I think, you use the sliders in a wrong way. You have to drag them to the LEFT. Look:

Played around a little bit in the evening... My exploding eye.

As written: Please SHOW us the original image and/or the result.

Changing of colors depends on the amount of colors of the image. Maybe your image hasn't much colors that can be reduced and so you can't see the changes.

Well, it's your decision, but I think, you should try it again. You can't learn anything, if you give up. Redrawing the feather wasn't neccessary (for perspective) in my opinion - at most, because they look a little bit like fish scales. And beveling the blood is better then such a light beveling of arms and legs. It's mostly a question of the right perspective - nothing else. Here 2 little examples, what I mean: I see two options: You draw the blood or other more or less flat objects directly in the right perspective. You draw like before and use then Layers -> Rotate/Zoom. Additional an alternative wing:

If the wall is the light source, the shadow must point in the opposite direction. In general your shadows are in my eyes to soft. BTW: Shadows must follow perspective too (nearer=bigger).

90 cm ~ 35,43 inches dpi = dots per inch 35.43 * 300 = 10629 (pixels) Paint.net works on screen with a standard resolution of 96 dpi. So the size will be 281.23 cm. Changing to 300 dpi -> 90 cm

You failed in drawing it in the right perspective. It should look more like this: Maybe that helps you...

Try Boltbait's Photo Adjustments

I think YES, because it is not a special photo related effect.

..or past the second image in a new layer, zoom out the workplace (slider: down right corner - ...│...+ ), hold down the SHIFT key and resize the new image to the right size.

The lack of information about your system makes it difficult to answer. Where exactly do you downloaded Paint.NET? Whats your exact operating system version? Because often anti virus programs make such problems: take a look in the event log of yours.

It works on a single layer but you MUST "cut" it before in pieces of "color islands" in a sea of transparency . Therefore you need a second layer like the hexagon grid to select the grid, switch back to the real image and delete the selection. BTW: After using the Average Object Color plugin you can use Fill Gaps to merge together all the color islands.

Probably your PC because here with PDN 4.0.13 and Vitrious ver. 4.0.5120.42730 it works fine.

Oookay, my last try. Complete renewed leather texture (MultiSpline), seams and threads and (thanks Gridwarp ) shape too.

Second (and a half) try with minor changes (after reading the discussion I removed the background)

Here's a new one from today - just finished. Maybe its not family-friendly enough. In this case please forgive me and delete the posting.

Your image reminds me on the effects of the plugin Halftone.

Strange! Why? I don't know the "Black-and-White-Mode" of MS Paint, but there are some Plugins to reduce colors or make a black-white image.

Of course it is possible, but I'm afraid that your archaic Windows version is a serious problem. Windows 7 SP1 is the minimum requirement.

Normally I don't work with palettes. I just figured out, what I wrote before, but I'm afraid it isn't possible in an easy way. May be other users can help you more, sorry.

You have to reduce the colors until less then 100 color entries in the palette. Then you can save this palette (and change the single entries).

Just put the DLL in the Effects directory of your Paint.NET installation. Thats all. You don't have to doubleclick it. DLL stands for Dynamic Link Library and like in a library the people use books for information here Paint.NET uses the code in a DLL to make an effect.

Thx. I have in fact more scary images, but unfortunately they aren't really family-friendly...