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@Rick Brewster @BoltBait Nice, good to hear this new feature was already on the radar, thanks. Couldn't find issue 2959 on the official repository, but anyway looking forward to it 👍

I've been using Paint.NET for a long time now and it's great. I mainly use it for sprite editing, create text logos, icons etc. so mostly game related. Currently there's no grow/shrink selection option, which would be usefull for many applications. uniformly adjust selections outline/inline letters for logo design outline parts of photos foreground/background separation etc The way I do it now is copy all and switch over to GIMP, do some selection manipulation, mark it with a certain color and copy back into Paint.NET. It works, but not a great workflow. I could do it all in GIMP but that takes forever as it's such a pain to work with. The Paint.NET option "Effects -> Stylize -> Outline" comes close but it's not as flexible, and the plugin mentioned in this other thread doesn't quite cut it. Ideally it really should be a main feature imho. I much rather work with just Paint.NET instead of GIMP, so I feel like expand/contract selected area is a key missing feature at the moment.

Oh wow, I already had that version 5.1 installed and completely missed that new option. 😀 Thanks, this work great, it's so much better now

I'm sorry I keep coming back to this when working with paint.net. The fix with the cursor size works, changing the mouse cursor to 2x or 3x does make it larger and more visible in paint.net and I appreciate the effort for this fix. However, this means I have to change the Windows mouse cursor size so I have a big mouse cursor in all my Windows apps, even though it's just to be able to work with paint.net. But afaik it's mostly due to the default background color and the mouse cursor having low contrast (especially when moving). See the mockup image below. Are you able to repoduce the following steps? 1) open the above image in Paint.net 2) move the (normal 1x size) mouse cursor across the 3 areas, from left to right and right to left 3) notice the mouse cursor seemingly disappears in the center area (almost like an optical illusion) I've checked the Settings -> User Interface -> Color Scheme and the "light" themes (Default / Blue / Light) all have the same border color #CFCFCF. So my question is, is it possible to change the border background color #CFCFCF to something else for the light themes?

Paint.NET is an awesome image editor and I use it a lot, but I'm also finding this issue increasingly annoying. I often find myself wiggling the mouse just to see where the cursor has gone. The problem is that the tiny cursor is lost against the grey background that surrounds the image canvas, see image in attachement. I work with just a standard HD (1080p) monitor, and the cursors for the Select, Paintbrush and Text tools are tiny and hardly have any contrast against this grey background. Admittedly, switching to Darkmode helps with this cursor visibility issue but imho that's no excuse to leave the "Default" or "Light" color schemes and/or cursor appearance unchanged as they are now. Btw also like others have already pointed out, changing the mouse cursor size in the Windows10 settings doesn't have any effect on the Paint.NET cursor.

fyi you can already do something like this using the website below. You can Drag & drop your images (all at once) in the page and then click "save" to export the new image: Leshy SpriteSheet Tool - Online Sprite Sheet & Texture Atlas Packer (leshylabs.com)

That's not quite the same, I think those are called sprite sheets, what I meant was create a sprite atlas from images that can have different sizes. Spritesheet : all same size, same width/height Sprite atlas/texture : different sizes, mixed widths/heights Not sure if those are the correct terms, but that's I've seen it used in the Phaser game library and the TexturePacker tool.

Is there a Paint.net plugin to create a spriteatlas (aka spritetexture or spritesheet)? A sprite atlas is used in game development, and it's a single image that contain several smaller images of game objects, sprites, enemies, particles, animations etc. Instead of loading many tiny images a game typically uses a sprite atlas so it can be loaded as a single texture, which improves loading time and game performance. So I mean a plugin that takes several images, or maybe the layers of an image, and neatly packs it into a spriteatlas/sprite texture, plus generate the accompanying coordinates file. I had already created a similar plug-in for GIMP, see here: https://github.com/BdR76/GimpSpriteAtlas Is something like that available for Paint.net? Or a related question, where do I start if I want to develop a plugin for Paint.net?

Just a quick mention; I never realised the Rectangle Select tool has a "Fixed Ratio" option. That kind of already does what I was looking for, except better Although, displaying the ratio can still be useful I think.

Thanks. And I'm just wondering if there are users who finds this metric useful. I mean, what is the usecase? If it's for determining memory size, that is already available in menu under "Image > Canvas Size".

I've been working with Paint.net for a while and it's great for annotating screenshots and doing quick edits on photos and images. There's just one thing that I think could be improved very easily. When you make a selection, the status bar at the bottom of the screen shows the starting coordinates and the resulting size, which is useful. However, it also shows the total pixel area, which isn't very useful IMHO. I've seen other editors (Paint Shop Pro) that display the ratio of the selection, so for example "1,3333" is 4:3 and "1,7777" is 16:9 etc. Which I've often found helpful to roughly find a nice crop selection that will also fit the desired canvas ratio. For example, to fit a cropped photo into a webpage layout, or match the required size ratio for a photo printing service. So my question is; When selecting, is it possible to replace the pixel area info with the selection ratio?