idiotsquared

Infrequent user of paint.net, but once again I needed to do this. There was a undocumented solution posted on July 13, 2018. I tried it, but it doesn't work. I was unable to find a "Fluid Mouse Input" setting in paint.net or Windows settings. Does paint.net now support something like the gimp does for all tools? Any help would be appreciated. This thread explains the issue and the undocumented solution. TIA

I'm again requesting that this feature be added. See the September 14, 2015 post for full details. (Fingers crossed that it gets added to the official Requested Features thread).

Cc4FuzzyHuggles, Thanks for the reply and tips. (As I was composing this I see that you edited your post and we are pretty much in agreement). I don't want the Line/Curve tool to gain paint brush capabilities. Instead I'd like the paintbrush, pencil, eraser to have exactly the same Ctrl-Shift (point to point) capabilities as the Line/Curve tool (which Pixey described in post #2 above). The Line/Curve tool would continue to work exactly like it does today. The paintbrush, pencil, and eraser would work the same as they do today, with the additional capability that you could paintbrush/pencil/erase in a straight line. Having the same shift/click interface as the Line/Curve tool would provide for a consistent interface. IF this is implemented I would also consider adding the capability to other tools (see GIMP's eligible tools in "3 Choose a Tool")

Any further status on this request? I should have made it clearer, as Cc4FuzzyHuggles did, that this behavior works with any tool. It is just not for drawing lines. Pixey, Thanks! Sorry for the late reply. I really wasn't as clear as I should have been, as I'm a PDN newbie. The behavior of the line tool is exactly what I want for other similar tools (pencil, paintbrush, eraser, etc.). Does this make sense?

I'm a fairly new user of Paint.NET but I REALLY, REALLY miss the capability to "draw a line" (using pen/brush/eraser/any tool using the SHIFT modifier key) between two points, as is done in GIMP and Photoshop. I tried the Line Tool but it is constrained to lines that are multiples of 15 degrees. In GIMP and Photoshop it can be ANY angle that connects the two points. My common use is to clean up borders of objects that have straight sides. The most recent example was cleaning up a picture of a necktie (don't even ask why) that had a shadow along its border. With GIMP I'd simply position an appropriate sized brush at the top of the tie's border, click then hold down the shift key and position the brush at the bottom edge of the tie and click - viola a straight line (of the color-picked background) is drawn between the two points and the shadow is gone. Erasures and other tools work exactly the same way. IMHO this is a very valuable capability. (I looked in the Feature Request thread and did not see this mentioned. I'm assuming that this is the correct place to discuss this). Here is one explanation of how the Shift modifier works.

I'm a fairly new user of Paint.NET but I REALLY, REALLY miss the capability to "draw a line" (using pen/brush/eraser/any tool using the SHIFT modifier key) between two points as the first poster requested. I tried the Line Tool but it is constrained to lines that are multiples of 15 degrees. In GIMP and Photoshop it can be ANY angle that connects the two points. My common use is to clean up borders of objects that have straight sides. The most recent example was cleaning up a picture of a necktie (don't even ask why) that had a shadow along its border. With GIMP I'd simply position an appropriate sized brush at the top of the tie's border, click then hold down the shift key and position the brush at the bottom edge of the tie and click - viola a straight line (of the color-picked background) is drawn between the two points and the shadow is gone. Erasures work exactly the same way. IMHO this is a very valuable capability. (I looked in the Feature Request thread and did not see this mentioned. I'm assuming that this is the correct place to discuss this).