AndrewDavid

Its that time again to celebrate

Buildings are much easier to paint then starships. This all started with 1 tree and a new plugin. Thanks to @BlastWave for the inspiration.

Thank You @Woodsy See how you made someone hungry. Thanks for visiting @hippiechos Thank you @Seerose for stopping by That was the furthest thing from my mind when I was painting it. Hope it didn't ruin your appetite. Thanks for stopping by

Just another thing women love. If you cant buy them diamonds - get them perfume. The scent may not last forever - but the bottle sure does. Such a lovely design @Pixey

Hello again @xdarrel3 I see you are asking about the equivalent to the quick selection tool of PS. Keep in mind the image the video showed was a simple one to demonstrate how well that tools works. Paint's magic wand would do the same function just as easily. Learning to control the tolerance setting will usually get most of the desired cut out of the image. For fine tuning - there are few ways to go about that. In addition to TR's plugin (which I think is the closest paint will come to a quick selection tool) - you could duplicate the image and play with the blend modes to help see the change in texture or color to help crop out the image. Hope this helps

Hello again @sashwilko Since I installed that update I have had no problems to speak of. With over 500 plugins designed for paint.net and over 200 filters designed for PS that all run properly installed on my computer, I wouldn't be complaining about WIN10 or Paint.net. There has to be some other software running on your machine that is interfering with your creativity. God forbid you didn't catch that worldwide virus just announced on CNN. Have you downloaded the patch Microsoft released? And just another note - Other than what Win10 has for anti-virus - I run no other protection.

Hey @xdarrel3 Welcome to the Forum. Give this a try https://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/26966-trs-alpha-cutter-v304-april-7th-2014/ Just what you're looking for.

@Calciborite Given some time and thought here's what I came up with closer to your wants.

@Calciborite I better understand your dilemma. Fitting a large image into a small area never seems to turn out well. There is another plugin I use PasteWarp+ Because your sword blade is only 11 pixels high - have you tried just selecting 11 pixels from your lightning image? Your sword image is 146 high - so try and select 146 pixels of the lightning effect and run pastewarp# to get this effect. https://picload.org/thumbnail/rigcrala/sword.jpg The effect is centered on the blade by just selecting the center of the lightning (146 Pixels). The best you might do is using zoom to reduce the size of the lightning to the width of the blade but again you would loose that quality. Here's another way of creating a blade for your sword that you might find interesting. https://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/14081-sword-beyond-beginners-level-image-heavy/& Hope this helps you

Hey @Woodsy It is great for WIN10 users. However - when you look at your settings/diagnostics - do you still see errors? I read through your installed plugins and saw some strange ones. Who knows what effects they are having. IE; woodsyVP1,dll, woodsyVP2.dll and woodsyVP3..dll Just curious - maybe you tinkered at codelab once upon a time.

How big is the image you are trying to paste? How big is your canvas that you are trying to paste to? and - if you are pasting into a selection box - How big is the selection box? And yes I see the sliders have a -2 to +2 but that is just relative from the top left corner of the canvas If you want to reduce the size of image of you are trying to paste - try the tiling option Posting an image will get better advice

@Calciborite Paste to a transparent layer and position the effect before you merge the layers. Hope that helps

@BlastWave Look for the cloud brush - best spray in the factory. I did give that method a try as well. Worked very well @Joshua Lamusga

Good news for you @sashwilko. Read this thread - I was the first to go through the whole process of upgrading to the creators edition. Yes - It is slow to begin with while updates appear to continue even after you reboot. GIve it a day or two. The link to a new version of paint resolves the slow loading issues.

Most excellent tutorial. Talk about details. Followed you every step of the way and learned several new things about shading and using noise. Thank you for your effort in describing exactly how you accomplished your artwork. Now I understand your gifs a little more too. Looking forward to seeing another one if you have the time. And as always - a sample of what I came up with after several attempts. No enhancements on this one - but I did take some artistic creativity along the way.

Something Simple and intuitive;

@pat71896 It is listed as TR's FIsheye - you may need to scroll through to the bottom of the list under distort and use your mouse to scroll further down to see it. Yes it is called fisheye in the effects folder. Hope this helps.

it usually takes me 5 drafts before I release my pics @LionsDragon. Keep plugging on. Its coming along nicely. The scales look nice. And yes it does look like a sphinx cat cross bred with a dragon. Does it breath fire too?

Exactly - and I lost functionality of my sound icon in the task bar.

Poor @Pixey. I've seen this time and time again. Everything works great - Operating system - Installed applications and Installed drivers for hardware components. Then - Someone decides to do an update and the whole house falls apart. My latest Video Driver tried to take over my sound controls. Its never ending I say. Each new piece of software wants to take control of everything. We must be diligent in watching what updates do to our configuration. Hope that's not too deep. My 5 cents worth.

Well - good to know if anyone wants to download the plugin.

@davidtayhs Thanks for the mini tutorial. It works very well - at least to my liking.

That was what I thought too - but they are properly paired. I just recompiled "toon.dll" to test my knowledge as well

Not at all @LionsDragon Just a collage of effects from Paint. The starship was first seen in strange attractors a long time ago......been working on it forever Amazing what some pics can be morphed into