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Okay. I reinstalled the pack and it is back and working fine. Thanks for your time.

The plugin Object>switch alpha to gray is no longer available on version 5. Has it moved, or what can I use in place of that plugin. Thanks.

Thanks @MJW. Your comment made me think about the layers. I went back and looked. After you cut the shape or text with the alpha mask, there are four layers that make up the text/shape. The bottom layer is with the trail plugin, normal mode, full opacity, the next layer up is the same with trail but multiply mode, full opacity. The next layer up is a duplicate of the bottom without trail,(just cutout text) normal mode full opacity, and the top layer is a duplicate of the third (flat) layer but screen mode, opacity 100. I'm not sure if brightness or contrast was used in the original tutorial, or if you should move one or another layer slightly, but the above seems to give an overall good result. Just in case anyone was interested. Thanks for your help. Docnich

Thank @Pixey . I will try that plugin for text. However, that technique would also work for shapes as well. I included another picture.

Welshblue did a tutorial on how to make 3d text with the trail plugin. The link was https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/18636-trail-plug-in-3d-text/ but it is no longer active. There was an original texture layer, then text (which I think was used to make an alpha mask and then later blurred to be a shadow), then 4 more texture layers which were used to make the text standout. I would appreciate any information as to how to reproduce this effect. I have included a pic that I made with it in the past. Thanks

Those are both very helpful. Thank you. I appreciate the suggestions.

I would like to make a background with a gradient from each side to the middle, but also include a gradient from the bottom to the top. I would like to keep the edges of the sides and the bottom, the solid darker color, and fade to the middle, and up to the top. Basically 3 gradients blended together. It is difficult to include the bottom to top without altering the other gradients. I have included my two tries but would like suggestions for easier, smarter ways to do this. Thanks.

Thanks I appreciate you taking the time to answer.

@BoltBait I perform the steps you mention above I click the transparent area with the magic wand then ctrl+I to invert then ctrl+shift+x to crop to selection Is there a plugin or a way to just "crop to opaque" I know I am being lazy, but I do this a lot after using gravity to delete unwanted areas of things, so my images are rectangular, and I just want to crop to the opaque area Thanks

There is a solid rounded rectangle plugin in Curtis' Plugin Pack There is also a plugin for radius corners where you can set the radius of the corners for any image.

Use the Alpha Mask Plugin Duplicate your layer. Fill that layer with white. Go around the edges making large black circles. Gaussian blur the layer until it looks smooth. Ctrl-C to copy. Click off the visibility of that layer. Go to the layer with your original pic and use the alpha mask plugin. The areas of white will show up and the black will be transparent. You can make another layer and place that beneath it, and fill it with a random bright color to see which areas are transparent. Delete the two new layers and you are left with your original pic with randomized faded edges.

My attempt.

It does have an effect on the capture if pasted into paint.net. I did one capture and pasted in paint.net and pasted in windows paint. The paste in windows paint was the exact same as the screen, but the paint.net was altered.

I will often copy full webpages and paste the results in paint.net in order to edit the page and save them as pdf's. Recently, when copying the page and pasting it in paint.net, I will get a blue hue to all of the pictures. If I choose to save the file and open it in paint.net, the pictures are fine. Also, if I paste it to window's paint the pictures are normal. I can even copy it from window's paint, and paste it in paint.net and the pictures are fine. If I just do print screen to copy the visible page and then paste in paint.net, there is no color alteration. I am using firefox as my browser and I paint.net version 4.2.4. I am including pics of how I copy then one pic of just pasting to paint.net and one of pasting in window's paint then copying and pasting to paint.net. The blue one is the straight paste to pdn.

Looks like I'm too late, but: I'm new here, but I use it and I like it. As was stated above, tap the arrow key first then use control and it does not duplicate. It works well for me.

Thank you both. Those dots were tough, but I was able to get a similar reproduction.

I would like to be able to reproduce this picture. While I would appreciate your thoughts on how to make the splat in the foreground, I am really curious how to make the different sized and different colored circles in the background that overlap irregularly. Thanks in advance. David

I would like your thoughts on the plugin object2colour. You can use it to do the initial color change, but you can also use it to get rid of any black that is left over if you used a different method originally. If you have opaque and translucent set to color wheel, it will change the black to your preferred color at the same alpha along the edges.

That's it! Thank you so much Woodsy. I really appreciate everyone's help.

Thanks Pixey, but that is not it. I remember it being much simpler than that. I would just generate a background and then run the plugin. One of the settings towards the middle of the dialog box, not the main setting, would need to be negative to get the right result. I appreciate your thoughts on the subject.

I recently read a post on how to create glass blocks using a plugin other than the glass blocks plugin. I do not know if it was a recent or older post. All I really remember was that one of the settings had to be a negative number and it turned the image into a nice rendering of glass blocks. If someone could help me with this, I would appreciate it. I have searched and searched and cannot find it. I believe it was mentioned as an aside and was not related to the main topic of the thread.

That was quick! Thank you. I appreciate it.

I am trying to duplicate yellowman's background here. I am using gradients galore, but I do not get the distinct lines that he has. My lines are, well, a gradient. How can I reproduce this 2 color fanning of the lines? My try with same colors in gradients galore. Thanks.

I was able to get those other plugins. The suggestions worked well. Thanks to everyone that helped. I appreciate it.