DavidP

WOW! This plugin is GOLD! Just discovered and installed it in v.5.0.12 and as far as I can tell it works perfect. Much love to the developer for this incredibly useful work of art!

Yes, but you were the first to simply and clearly say that there is no such thing as a feathered selection in Paint.NET. Had this been stated earlier, I would not have repeated my request several times, each time clarifying it further -- in the assumption that people still had not understood it. Yes, because it contains your answer (reduced to its essentials), which fully answers the original question.

While you might have not, other people obviously were. Your post is the first one to say so.

What I mean is a feathered selection, not any manipulation of the object or pixels of the image. Shown in another image editor below, left is a normal selection, right a feathered (softened) selection (in Mask view mode): https://i.pinimg.com/736x/56/ab/50/56ab508bdc19416b7a46d1a07b154daa.jpg

I believe it's called "Feather Selection", right? This plugin (or "Feather Object") actually works for my purpose, when used in the way that Pixey proposed. Only the feather range should be larger in my view. Both AA's Assistant and Fade Edge don't seem to do anything when applying them to a selection/object that's been pasted into a new layer...? Also, I've yet to see a plugin that actually softens the selection's edge itself, not the object that is contained in the selection...?

Thanks very much, I believe that I begin to understand the principle now. However, a possibility to directly soften a selection's edge would be of course way simpler... I wonder why there is not even a plug in which can do that. BTW, kudos that you spotted the use of Elvis in my example

Sorry, but I can not follow. Especially steps 3 and 4. I also don't understand why you have three layers. And I still don't see a soft selection that could have a filter applied to it.

Thanks, but I don't understand how this is supposed to give me a soft selection edge.

Is there a way (or a plugin) that can soften a selection? I need to apply a filter to a selection, but with a softer transition between the filtered area and the rest of the image.

Is the download available somewhere as a ZIP file? I can't open the exe file on the work computer because it seems to be requiring administrator rights.

Hello all, Just wanted to let you know that it looks similar on Windows. The plugin works great (ignore the girls, see the smudged skyscrapers), but the controls are only partially visible: Running the plugin on a 4K monitor here, with Windows dpi resolution setting at 200%. Apparently the plugins are not yet set up for different (i.e. higher) screen resolutions.

In the documentation it says that ClearType is available as one of three options for text antialiasing. However I can’t get it to work. Text is always rendered using grayscale antialiasing, not with ClearType. Am I doing something wrong?