MaxRavenclaw

I wish paint.net would offer more ways to control selections. I certainly miss GIMP's line select tool, and a grow selection option would also be nice. I don't think plugins can offer that though.

Doing it manually isn't really possible when you're working with far bigger images. I was hoping there's a faster way, but I guess not. No chance for a plugin that actually colours stuff a shade of grey depending on the density of the dots then still, thanks for the advice

That works reasonably well. Used a color killer plugin though. Magic wand isn't sensitive enough. Better than selecting the outline and removing everything else, but still not perfect. I wish I'd remember which post it was I had recently read about something like this. They advised using median blur, and some plugin that I ultimately traced down to gmic for gimp, but I can't seem to find the thread here.

For example, turning something like this: Into something like this: But better, and maybe even taking the tone into account, but at least getting rid of the dots.

Thanks again for the quick reply. Sadly, the same thing happens. I think it's an inherit effect of the outline plugin. It doesn't apply AA like when using a simple line. I suppose I can try applying AA after the fact, though, so these two methods you've listed can still be useful. Pity there's no plugin that does it all in one step, though.

Thanks for the quick reply. That's actually what I tried here, but the results were a bit unsatisfactory, so I ended up just forcing transparency with a straight line. It either led to this, when there was a difference in sharpness: Or this, when the line wasn't straight: In addition, this doesn't work if the background is transparent. I was hoping there was something else.

I'm not even sure how this technique is called. Basically, using transparency to show that one element is over another, like in the pic I attached (the gun in the right is over the one in the left). Is there a plugin or quick way of doing this in Paint.net?

Zagna, I want to thank you for your support. Even if Irrfanview didn't solve my issue, I did find another solution. I installed BIMP for GIMP which allowed me to mass resize my images, but it turns out that the resampling algorithm used by GIMP looks worse than how a resampling would with Paint.NET. Turns out Paint.NET uses fant when I choose Best Quality, producing the best results compared to Nearest Neighbour, Liniar/Biliniar, Cubic/Bicubic or Sinc(Lanczos3) available to GIMP. So I was back at square one. Then I found the WIndows Image Resizer that uses fant. Only issue is that it doesn't do padding, but I can do that with BIMP. TL;DR Use Windows Image Resizer, then add padding with GIMP's BIMP. If anyone stumbles upon this thread in the future, I hope this helps. And once again thanks, Zanga, for your patience.

Using white as background makes it look decent on white, but horrible on black. So changing background color doesn't work. It has to be alpha.

First of all, thank you for your continued support, mate! Second. If you recheck the imgur album, you'll see the results. Still get a border with one option (just pink now) or get wierd transparency issues (in this case it tints the image green). I'm guessing it subtracts the background color or something. No luck. Well, a pity. I'll have to see if I can use GIMP's BIMP plugin. A pity, Paint.NET is pretty much the best thing ever, pity it doesn't support batch processing.

Zagna I've played around with it for a bit, but I can't seem to get it to work write. It always turns the alpha channel to black. Even if I work with the alpha settings, it either leaves black borders or plain messes up the image completely. Here are my experiments: http://imgur.com/a/NUvcE EDIT: Further research reveals that not checking "Save Transparency as Alpha Chanel" is not only making the border but also other internal issues. Checking it makes the high transparency image, but it is technically closer to the Paint.NET processed image bar the transparency issue. ​EDIT: Apparently the IrfanView forums do not accept new registrations, so asking for help there is out of the question...

ZagnaThanks. I'll give it a try. Ah, I knew there had to be a simple solution to this. Thanks for pointing this out.

I have a bunch of images of various sizes that I want to bring down to 65x40px while maintaining the aspect ratio. That generally means I have to: 1. Resize to 65px width and less than 40px height. 2. Increase canvas to 40px height while keeping the image in the middle. 3. Deleting the white borders created up and down. (Still trying to figure how to set Paint.net to increase canvas and fill with alpha not white.) 4. Saving the file. Repeat for every single picture. Is there any way for me to automatize any number of these steps? I found the ScriptLab plugin, but as far as I see it can't do resizing. Thanks in advance.