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hi Pixey and hi pyrochild - thank you for your prompt replies - as this issue with smudge has been driving me crazy! Yes, I did download the new version of smudge multiple times (in my first post I mentioned that I re-downloaded smudge from every link of pyrochild's - which basically was the link in the first post in this thread. The date of the smudge file from the link was always 09/16/12, so I thought the file was current, but PaintNet 4.0.3 came out in 2014, so was thinking there was even a newer version of smudge somewhere?) What was really frustrating is that all the other effects and tools worked, just not smudge. Mind you, since smudge did not work for me, I would only keep trying to repair smudge and not any others (since the others all worked in 4.0.3). So today, I decided to empty the whole lot of pyrochild's excellent work and install them ALL. I am Win 7, Home Premium. Again, all worked but not smudge. So I closed PaintNet and started PaintNet up to try one last time. Ha - this time smudge was working and pyrochild's ScriptLab was showing too (first time I could finally see ScriptLab - was wondering what people were talking about regarding SriptLab!). So thanks so much for your hard work and for the response(s) - as this gave me motivation to re-download and try again! Still not sure what was going on, but maybe I only had pieces of something installed? Now it all seems to work, so a big relief! Thanks again! (ps....I actually started to consider Gimp, but never downloaded or used that. Very glad I decided to post here and now am able to stay with PaintNet!)

I apologize if this was 'answered' somewhere in the 40 pages of this thread, but I cannot find the answer. I love(d) the pyrochild smudge effect. I used it on almost all my projects - up until the PaintNet 4.0.3. After that update (summer 2014ish), the smudge effect is not recognized. I see inside the PaintNet program (settings>plugin errors) that the smudge.dll is the only plugin that is listed as an error. The error log has a wall of text about the smudge versions, could not load file or assembly and on and on. Then at the very end it says something like "This plugin is incompatible with this version of PaintNet. A mandatory update is available." Okay, so what is a "mandatory update"? I have the latest PaintNet update (4.0.3) and I am not going to try and figure out how to go back to an older version - or is that the solution? btw, all the other pyrochild plugins still work fine in PaintNet 4.0.3. So what is the issue with smudge? Makes no sense. I looked all over the place and find no 'updated' smudge to download - yet it seems like some people are still able to use it in PaintNet 4.0.3. How? I re-downloaded every smudge download available from pyrochild's plugin links and still have the same result - it does not work. Can anybody please explain is step-by-step instructions where to get this "mandatory update" and how to install it? Thank you for any help. It has been driving me crazy for over 3 months now. I have found no work-around effect to use in place of smudge, so I finally decided to post in this forum and get the straight answer(s). If smudge is a dead plugin, then I understand and would like confirmation of this (although it seems like people are able to use it in 4.0.3). If it is a dead plugin, will there be a new version available soon? Does anyone know? Again, thanks for any help!