[Is there a way to use pngoptimizer for png saving. (or at least have it run automatically)]

On 2016. 11. 14. at 11:08 PM, Rick Brewster said:

PNG optimization is an excruciatingly slow process unless the image is very small.

 

I've always recommended doing external PNG optimization as a "final pass" on your content creation. That is, do it after you're doing with all of your edits, before uploading it somewhere else.

 

It'd save a fair bit of time if I wouldn't have to do it manually. Also pngoptimizer seems to be the fastest of the lot I tried

 

On 2016. 11. 15. at 0:42 AM, Amaroq Dricaldari said:

The problem with TinyPNG is that it lossily encodes the PNG, reducing the colors and other things like that.

That is a problem. I most definitely don't want that with a PNG.

[Can I export layers into separate image files?]

Hi!

 

Can I do this without wasting my time with flattenning it individually then undoing it then starting over?

It feels like something fundemental to have if you support layers.

Not only that but it also creates a file naming snafu. Where the filename changes every time to something you don't want to.

[[WON'T FIX] Default to a lossless format after editing instead of the source format. (which doesn't make sense)]

On 2016. 10. 23. at 8:04 PM, Ego Eram Reputo said:

I disagree. You need to plan your workflow to account for this, rather than relying on paint.net to save you.

Here's what I do: I open an image and immediately decide if this edit will overwrite the original. If I want to keep the original, I use File >Save As... to specify a new filename and format before I do any editing.

 

Your rationale would only make sense if only robots would use paint.net which isn't the case. Usually people press ctrl+s reflexively, in which case you end up overwriting a lossy file unrecovaribly. At least with lossy files you can recover the original, by undoing everything and saving it. The inability to undo a step with an image editor sucks a lot.

 

If the user could specify a default save format, it would prevent such unexpected things from happening, but that's not possible either as far as I can tell.

 

On 2016. 10. 26. at 5:37 PM, Rick Brewster said:

Handy shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+S = Save As

 

I'm aware of that. Yet if you press ctrl+s there's no going back, no matter if you decide to "save as" after. Well, the quality prompt helps a bit. (Not sure if it appeared for edited jpg-s when I reported this)

[Is there a way to use pngoptimizer for png saving. (or at least have it run automatically)]

Hi!

 

I'm wondering whether I can have it as the default for saving png-s or at least have it run after saving.

 

I know there's an optipng thing but it's slower and/or doesn't compress as well. Also it's added as a different format. So Paint.NET never defaults to it.

[[WON'T FIX] Default to a lossless format after editing instead of the source format. (which doesn't make sense)]

Hi!

 

I don't think it makes sense to the source format after I edited the image, if it's a lossy format. After I crop/resize an image I mostly want it losslessly.

Even worse that I often accidentally overwrite the source file in these cases, which can't be recovered because it was lossy.

In general I think it would make sense saving to work as save as (with a prompt, defaulting to png) in this case too, just like with a new file.

[Icon, Cursor, and Animated Cursor Format v3.7 (May 2010)]

Here's a mod of Evan Old's File-type - hopefully it solves some of the issues.

 

If Mr. Olds returns to update the FileType himself I will happily remove it.

 

Great!

It seems to work without an issue.

[Icon, Cursor, and Animated Cursor Format v3.7 (May 2010)]

I NEED HELP!

This plugin has worked till i upgraded to the latest paint.net, now it just sits there and saves without actually saving, when i try to save. I downloaded the latest version of the plugin and it didnt work. I dont know what to do!

 

Darn it! It's broken here too. I just quick wanted to edit an icon and I can't...