ChrisJS

Thanks for that - I didn't think I had missed anything, so the confirmation is appreciated. Based on what I saw in all of the documentation, I would suggest that whenever there is a "percent bar" in the tool bar, the keys "{" and "}" could be bound to controlling it. On many keyboards they are the shift up of the square brackets that control the width, so even for keyboard control, that should make it easily memorable. And - also important - I could not find anything indicating that they were already bound to anything else.

So - I have a new TourBox (search that, you will get a good hit) that is widely praised as an add-on controller for doing graphic design work - and all the built-in presets are for those really expensive tools, for which we substitute Paint.NET. The Console software for this controller lets you create profiles for any piece of software, and users have even created profiles for things like Firefox, so this is not limited to just design software. The biggest advantage of this controller is when the mouse is elsewhere on screen - you can use this controller to alter other settings without moving the mouse back and forth to the toolbar. I am trying to create a profile for Paint.NET; the TourBox has three rotary controls - the Scroll, the Dial, and the Knob which I am looking to connect to the control elements on the common tools in Paint.NET. But I ran into difficulties when looking for shortcuts for all the control elements of the Tools. The best example is the Brush tool. I can set up one controller element (the Scroll) to control the image zoom, and I can set up the Dial to control Brush width. I also want to set up the Knob to control Hardness - but after much searching, finding the documentation on key and mouse shortcuts, and checking everything I could find, it appears there are no shortcuts, either key or mouse, for the Hardness control. It also does not appear to be in the list of features under consideration. Am I missing something, or is the only way to adjust the hardness with mouse clicks on the the + or -, or by directly clicking on the % hardness bar?

Yeah - I'm not great about keeping those up to date. My phone has me spoiled. Has anyone created a Paint.net plugin subscription service?? 🙂

Just checking in to let you know that this plugin is fantastic. The previous one in paint.net was getting frustrating because it would show horizontal banding artifacts. (I don't know if it was the included or one I added to Effects.) This one does not show those problems at all! As to the modern uses - although not my day job (or paid job :-( ) I sometimes have to prep items for commercial printing. This plugin is ideal for reducing grey scale images to dithered black and white, which give much more predictable results at the print shop. On a similar note, it is ideal for building index separations from full colour images before sending them as shirt silk screen masters. For that last use, the one feature that could make this even more useful is a way to specify a custom palette - which could be made to match up to a selection of available silk screen inks. Currently you have a selection of palettes, but no custom option. There is already an accepted paint.net palette format, so just allowing one of those as an input would be a nice feature!