[Creating Textures using Paste Warp]

So I created a texture, using the fill plugin > fill from clipboard made a mesh on a separate page, then copied that mesh and used paste warp on a selection, some adjustments were required, but at the end I think it works very well for segments of clothing. (In an earlier unrelated post I said something about puppet warp, this isn't what I was working on at the time, that was something unrelated and I had to draw the whole thing from scratch). 

[Has there ever been a thought about Warp Selection?]

  

On 9/10/2022 at 5:54 PM, Red ochre said:

 

Welcome to the forum @Elix Exo

 

If you look at the first post of the Grid warp thread it states that you can use an image as a background image
https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/25327-grid-warp/

 

1. Have the layer you wish to warp as the top layer.
2. Hide this layer and move to the layer below.
3. Edit/Select all, then Edit/Copy Merged. This places your composite background or reference image in that piece of memory called the clipboard.
4. Return to the layer you wish to warp, unhide it and open Tools/ Grid warp.
5. Click on the back ground and select clipboard image.

 

Hope that helps

 

@Red ochre
You could've just shortened that tut to

>Grid warp 

>change interface colors

>from clipboard 

I was warping "blind" since then, but I came to gripe about something else;

There's no puppet warp, I think Paste warp+ *might* work, It's pretty cool (I'm not just saying that), but I don't know if it'll do what I need it to do. 

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[Has there ever been a thought about Warp Selection?]

1 hour ago, Elix Exo said:

Grid warp can't be used in real time, you can't observe layers under for reference of something. without reference one has to either go back and forth or just won't be able to warp anything meaningful. if grid warp functioned like 'DistortThis!' it would be far more useful. 

Nevermind, sorry, I figured out how to make do. 

Thanks for all the plugins!

[Has there ever been a thought about Warp Selection?]

On 6/7/2022 at 2:24 PM, Rle said:

Yes

Please try :

1. forum search

2. A nice place to search online  for Plugins : Plugin Index

and here as plugin for Paint.NET  : Plugin Browser

enter as keyword : Warp 

 

 

 

example :

 

 

Grid warp can't be used in real time, you can't observe layers under for reference of something. without reference one has to either go back and forth or just won't be able to warp anything meaningful. if grid warp functioned like 'DistortThis!' it would be far more useful. 

[Eraser brush]

Not sure if this has been posted before or not, but there's a trick I use to turn the paint brush into an eraser. 

 

1. Set Blending mode to overwrite 

2. Set color opacity to zero 

The brush will now act as an eraser, this is useful for when you're drawing with a tablet, I set my first key to "x" which allows me to immediately switch to the second color, which would be an eraser brush. With a mouse it's even easier, just right click.