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Rick, I just updated to 5.0.7 and I can say everything is working perfectly now with this issue! Thank you so much for your time effort and patience in understanding the problem and then solving it! Now to update 800+ images! Best regards! Don

Also, thanks to everyone else for helping me explain or illustrate this issue!

Awesome thanks Rick, looking forward to testing it out and being back on track (locally that is, lol). Don

Thanks folks! Glad I am not seeing things that others are not.

Sorry was out on a long weekend (our anniversary). Here is a file that demonstrates this. Use the layer "counter", I created three rectangles (red, green and blue) and if you use the Selection -> Bevel and use 7 and 0.30. Please note I select the inner rectangle like so: Now I feel like a complete idiot, its almost working! I still am seeing a transparent pixel sometimes in the upper right corner? I am a little confused because I have seen this also make like the bottom row of pixels transparent and also seen it behave as above. Here is the zip file: SelectionBevelFailure.zip

This is another tool (and its UI is a pita, but I am used to Paint.Net and its shortcuts) but the bevel is what I am trying to achieve. I used to be able to do this in one click with 5.0.2 (and I think the previous plugin version) but I think when either I upgraded to 5.0.3 or I upgraded the plugin to v6, the bevel changed to white and black despite the base color. This bevel from this tool is close but I now have to fiddle around with it and get it to do what I want it to exactly do, but as you can see the light and dark colors are close and not pure white and pure black which is what Paint.Net does (or used to do). Really I just want a bevel that looks at the base color you pick for a rectangle and then makes a lighter and darker gradient based on the side of the bevel you want to create. Now Paint.net does not work with the plugin bevel (selection or object bevel). Something broke.

Wow now it seems like the Bevel selection does not behave like it used to. Now when I bevel a selection I get a full lighter color all around the edges, instead of having the light coming from one direction and the opposite direction being darker. The darker no longer functions or works. Before when I did something like this (just last week as you can see in my screenshots) the right side would be darker. Now that no longer works. If I adjust it like so: As you can see the Dark Color just does not work anymore. Previously (pre Paint.Net v5.0.2 (or even 5.0.1) worked fine, in fact it worked better because it automatically "knew" to make the light and dark colors a lighter and darker color of the base color chosen. I was able to whip through 500+ images. Then in Paint.Net v5.0.3 (I think) this no longer worked, the bevel was more "feathered" but instead it defaulted to the white and black outlines, I had a work around by setting the light color to a light grey (215,215,215 or 196,196,196, etc.) and it would blend good enough with the base color. But now in 5.0.6 none of this is working. Instead you get a "white (255,255,255) outline around the entire selected rectangle and the Dark Color just does not work anymore. I'd love for this to be fixed and working again. Otherwise I need to find another tool and relearn how to use that tool, which would suck big time because I invested so much time into learning Paint.Net, and the Bevel (selection or object) were working perfectly for what I needed but now they are not.

Sorry been on holidays. For my settings I am using this: Note I just checked the "Use hardware acceleration for UI and the canvas" it was unchecked.

I have been using BoltBaits Bevel Selection for a while, I used the previous version and had to adjust when v6.0 came out due to some changes in both the plugin and Paint.net 5.0.3 and 5.0.4. I just upgraded Paint.Net to version 5.0.6 and now BoltBaits Bevel Selection is automatically turning the right top pixel in a selection to transparent. This is not what is desired. First I select a rectangle and then I flood fill it with a color and then use "Effects -> Selection -> Bevel Selection". Normally the entire rectangle is beveled, but now I am noticing that the top right pixel in the rectangle is turned transparent. This is what I am seeing when I do the above: To fix this I have to make sure I have reselected the rectangle, then flood fill the rectangle starting with the transparent pixel (if you don't and just flood fill anywhere when you re apply the bevel selection it will again make that right pixel transparent), once the rectangle has been completely filled in with the solid color you can then apply the bevel and get the desired results like so: This is an extra time consuming step (when you have 150+ files each with 3 images in them) that needs to be fixed. In Paint.net prior to 5.0.6 with this plugin v6.0 it worked just fine, I could select a rectangle, flood fill it, from the menu first time select "Effects -> Selection -> Bevel Selection" - the next rectangle I would just use Control + F to quickly bevel each rectangle). Now I have to do more steps to do what I used to be able to do in just a few key strokes. Thank you in advance in correcting either the plugin or Paint.net and fixing this unwanted bug. Don

Wow that looks amazing! I am a newbie and did not get that far!

The original tutorial is like 15 years old and Drop Shadow does not look or function like the first post. Has this tutorial been updated? Is there something that uses the new Paint.net 5.0 features?

Well by Jove that worked! Instead of the 0.75 I was using before (pre 6.4) I had to drop it to 0.30 and it works surprisingly well and no color tweaking needed! Thank you so much for the tip!

Greetings BoltBait. I am not a graphic artist and have only really been really using Paint.Net for a few months heavily (have used other graphic tools). What I found was that Paint.Net was the easiest for me to learn how to work with layers and your plugin pack for pre- Paint.Net 5.0 worked for me seamlessly. Last week I finally updated to Paint.net 5.0 and updated your plugin's to 6.4 (just this morning, but I find the same issue with 6.3), previously with your older Bevel Section tool I was able to set it once to the parameters I desired and the beveling would work perfectly for any color's automatically. This was fantastic since I could modify over 300 graphic files each with 20 rectangles in just a few hours by selecting a rectangle that was a flat one hex color and after the first "File | Effects | Selection | Bevel" I could then do Ctrl+F to bevel each rectangle. Now it seems that when you improved the bevel tool you actually made it harder to use because by default it wants to use white and black automatically to create the bevel. This is undesirable for my application, would it be possible to have an auto select of the colors? Here is a an example, on the left is the rectangle select and bevel that worked for over 6k rectangles I modified using the method above. Now I can't do that automatically, because the default colors for light is now white and for dark is black. Now I'd have to change the the colors (light and dark) for over 40 different colors schemes. The old tool (or old way) worked much better at determining the color to bevel and automatically changing the shade. While your new changes are great for direct control over a few files or one off's its not suitable when you have 40+ colors and you want to bevel 20 rectangles across 300 files. Is there a way for you to add automatic color selection like how it was pre 6.4, even as an option somehow? Or should I uninstall Paint.net 5.0 and find an older version of it and your old plugins? Thank you for the great work you have done on both 4.3 and 6.4.