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I collected all useful effects plugins for PN_v4.3.12, while I had Win7. From the Plugin Index it was implied and also the forums pointed out many times, that none of the old plugins work for newer versions of PN. So I took the Plugin Index version filters as a rule: v4 plugins work for v4, v5 plugins work for v5, etc.. So I took it as granted that no old amazing effects work in newer versions... Now I'm on Win10, and recently I needed effects. I started up my old trusty PN_v4.3.12 from a backup folder with my favorite effects collection. Last year I spent weeks picking useful plugins and testing them, deleting useless ones for my work and so I tested and cleaned all stuff in the entire Plugin Index list. But to my dismay I found the distort effects in PN_v4.3.12 are crashing a lot now on Win10. Couldn't work with them to produce the needed result. On a whim, I simply dumped all my picked amazing old effects DLL-s into the latest paint.net 5.0.13 effects folder and started it up. It complained only about one DLL. Quickly I deleted that one. To my surprise I found out that all the hand-picked 180 or so effects plugins work wonderfully in PN v5! Haven't tried all adjustments yet.. Also in PN_v4.3.12 the "DPI-discrepancy" caused fonts to be unreadable in older plugins, like Asmageddon's. But in PN 5 even those menu texts are now 3/4 visible and a lot more readable! Also PN 5 cleared up the old plugin menu-slider looks. So I can control old plugins a lot more easily! So thank you for reworking the plugin UI display! I quickly got rid of buggy PolyGlitch as I'm working in 3D, so I don't need it. So I'm finding it amazing that PN 5 is no longer crashing in Effects-Distort or in all the Effects menu with my picked plugins!! That I think is a considerable achievement, gentlemen! You definitely deserve your donations! Congratulations! PS: Thank you for making this forum WRAP TEXT. It allows me to CTRL+MouseWheelZoom on an old 5:4 monitor and all the text wraps beautifully, remains on-screen! Unlike most webpages nowadays: they zoom out to the right into "infinity" - pushing text outside of my screen, causing most of the sentences to be unreadable on other sites.

Works in 5.0.9! Same newest plugin doesn't show up in 4.3.12 though, but that is not important now. I checked Photoshop 2024 (desktop) v25.0 and it doesn't have your amazing power and simplicity! Photoshop has this monstrous Liquify feature set geared for correcting the clothes and faces of photo models and it runs slow on my PC. Pyrochild's Smudge however is simple, fast and is excellent for art & painting!! 1. It can use brushes as PNG directly, in an instant(!!), so I can create any kind of custom brush. Latest Photoshop v25 cannot as it requires a painfully slow and tiring brush-defining and creating process. 2. Your Smudge filter is fast. Latest Photoshop v25 is slow 3. Your Smudge filter can create amazing paint-backgrounds with your superb JITTER feature: similar to the way how real physical painters achieve a background with their physical brushes held in hand in seconds!! Latest Photoshop v25 needs a special large noise brush (with scattering, noise, pen tilt, brush angle etc..) created just for this purpose, and it produces a somewhat similar effect to yours but SLOWLY. And as I try to smudge in more black from the edge of my (dark-edged) original photo, it bugs out by producing by starting to ERASE the image pixels and only leave the white-black transparent checkerboard!! So I can create a real painting background in seconds, without bugs like Photoshop v25 produces. Just like how painters teach basic skills. I got this technique from an old face-painting tutorial. IIRC: He did it with oil. Your filter can do that, while its a pain to try to emulate your Amazing Smudge Filter Functionality in Photoshop v25, which even bugs out during the process! WOW! You built a better smudge filter than latest Photoshop has with their dozens-of-millions of dollars development budget.

Paint.net 5.0+ required, I assume. As I can no longer find it in the Effects-->tools menu in PDN 4.3.