[Ignore certain color on move/copy]

Please add function/option to ignore certain color on Selected pixels move within layer ( default/{the only} color -- transparent ) . And, not necessary, on Paste or Copy .

This essential function dramatically speed up multiple tasks which exactly are targets of such software .

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Note that i didn't meant that Paint.net is a bad program or that i do not use it, lot of works on PC would be meaningfully harder without it and i'm thankful to developers for making it, this thread are about a certain functionality, and i just personally hardly dislike when some people conceal issues by empty things like "it makes it unique" or "the issue are not real because i don't think feel/see it is" or "if its not a huge/key problem it doesn't worth being mentioned" or whatever else of such kind.
(for me this seems to be obvious, but people tend to look at things trough their kaleidoscopes)

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1 hour ago, AndrewDavid said:

 

1-stly, the 3+ steps use of a "magic wand" just to do things that are that basic and obviously expected by any normal user to happen by default are ridiculous,
not sure what the "that takes some practice with" mean, but if you practically meant "its good that its unergonomic, inefficient and ridiculous, because it makes it more unique", i think it is not other response needed than this clarification.

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On 23.08.2017 at 6:43 PM, Ishi said:

However, I think a variation of this  "transparent selection" idea may just be useful  on some situations like for moving text on the same layer. Because if I create a selection on a single letter and use the Move Selected Pixels tool to move that letter, the boundaries of my selection would force transparency on anything else outside that it touches, including other letters. I have encountered this quite a number of times, that I had to create another layer, paste my single letter there so I could move it freely without distorting the other letters. I think it would be an OK addition to "Move Selected Pixels" tool.=

wait, is there transparent pixels getting moved too ?

What a **** , i can understand no ability to ignore white, but holly crab, moving empty pixels is hell ridiculous

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On 02.08.2017 at 2:05 AM, MJW said:

@Ilias, I'm not positive how you use the Paint feature, but if I interpret what you want to do correctly, I think that instead of doing all the tricky selection stuff, it might be easier to add a lower white layer, then remove the white from the upper layer with my  Color Clearer, ReMake's Eliminate Dark/Light, or one of the other similar plugins. Then the selections could be made and moved around over the white background without having to worry about the outer area of the selection obscuring some non-white pixels.

 

EDIT: You'd still need to use Paste into New layer to avoid overwriting with transparency, but that would be true no matter how the original selection worked.

(When you then making some for example white box, and placing something on it you will be unable to move it do not affecting the boxe's fill, you can't always make new layer for each thing which can get on another)

(without the solution i agreed with)

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1 minute ago, Rick Brewster said:

Don't forget to set Tolerance to 0%. I missed that step. Then it selects only the same color as what you click on.

okay, with global mode and tolerance 0 its working, agree,

thanks for responses (especially for pointing me to solution )

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7 hours ago, Rick Brewster said:

You can probably use the selection tools that already exist to do this.

 

For instance, you could select a rectangular area with the Rectangle select tool. And then in order to remove pixels of a certain color, use the Magic Wand tool with two things selected in the toolbar: Subtract, and Global. You could also do it in reverse: use Magic Wand tool with Normal mode and Global, and then use Rectangle select tool with Intersect mode in order to clip it.

magic wand selects similar color, not exact (it how it should be, but are not suitable in that case)

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or better, option to select color to ignore )

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2 hours ago, Ego Eram Reputo said:

Oh, and welcome to the forum ilias

Thanks, but no, i didn't meant any changes to transparency handling in the program or actions with background colors in project, i offered as i said ability to switch "do not move pixels with [255,255,255,|any|] color" to selection tools, 

2 hours ago, BoltBait said:

So..

I do know how to use layers and they are main reason why probably going to use Pant.net instead of MS Paint, it doesn't anyhow connected to the addition, the enchantment is functionality for selection system, which can't be substituted with same working speed by layers system.

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Hi, just want to make request to add the MS Paint 's "transparent selection" function to the great Paint.net,

because i readed topic about it which was before want to explain: deal here not in layers, actual transparency or anything like that,

just white color in paint is same as transparency and can say when you selecting and moving anything-- white pixels is like white and no color pixels (transparent) in same time and you can choose what they would be,

but point and coolness of the feature is in that what in a lot of workflows on that kind of editors background is white,

so the requested addition is "switchable 'do not move pixels with [255,255,255] color undependent to their alpha'",

that small feature would be  awesome and hugely work speed increasing in a lot of cases  functionality in the editor.

 

(Using chance want to say  thank you  to developers for their work on the editor, here it will replace MS Paint in its tasks to complete  )

With respect

Ilias