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Read this thread: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2756 That should give you the basics of layers.

My entry: Image Sources: - Dark Side of the Moon album cover - Pink Floyd Quote Source: - Time by Pink Floyd

It is not currently possible. Your best bet at the moment is to save as GIF (which will convert the image to 256 color), then use MS Paint to open the GIF and save as BMP.

Great idea! Of course, it makes me wonder why you know anything about a pirating tool...

You may want to try the CorelDRAW suite. Corel PhotoPaint is a more advanced photo editing program than Paint.NET and it has a full color management system. You can buy older versions of the program (I recommend version 9+) for cheap. A quick google search shows version 12 for $65. I've seen version 9 for like $30.

Just use Edit > Paste to a New Layer. Then you can delete the part that you want to be transparent. MS Paint has to have the paste transparent method because they don't have layers.

Yes, I was just noticing that. It doesn't do a great job of fixing an over-bright area (like the sky, or a sun reflection on something). Perhaps it is just my source images that I've been using for testing. The shadow recovery, on the other hand, works like a charm.

OK, now that I've used this I have a BIG suggestion for you. I need more control. I figure you are creating a scratch canvas already, so the changes I'm asking for will probably be easy. Let me choose the source canvas and the destination canvas for each effect in the script. Then allow me to specify blending ops from one choosen canvas to the other. For example, let me glow from the source canvas to the destination canvas, toon from the source to the scratch, then Darken blending op from the scratch to the destination canvas. When the script ends, whatever is on the destination canvas is what the user sees. This request would REALLY open up the power of what this effect can do. What do you think?

Wow. Excellent update to an already awesome plugin. Now, even a beginner like me can use it! My photographs thank you.

It's not that well hidden. To be honest, it was an accident that it made it in here, and I just was too lazy to edit it out. So I decided to make a sort of game out of it. For those of you that don't know what I'm talking about, there's a hidden Easter Egg somewhere in this thread. I announced it in the off-topic, but it was the last post on the page so probably not very many of you saw it... Yeah, someone needs to check the list of available plugins in his screenshot...

I agree. Next release of CodeLab will move it into the Advanced submenu.

Use RectToPolar plugin ...and if that doesn't work try Effects > Distort > Polar Inversion

Installing this won't overwrite anything in Paint.NET 3.10. And, the only thing it really gives you is the ability to do HSV gradients.

Too late. Closed.

I'm just glad your problem is solved.

Paint.NET is designed as a 32bit image editor. All images when loaded are converted to 32 bit for editing, then converted (if necessary--like to GIF) when saved. This is just the way Paint.NET works.

Great idea. Here's a link: viewtopic.php?f=20&t=3446

Yes. In fact, I've asked Rick for a hand full of other words as well. He's hesitant to add them, but he hasn't said "no".

Without clicking the link, I'll bet its the one written by the guy that wrote this tutorial...

I always just center-click the links which causes them to open in a new tab. Once you get into the habit of that, you'll never have that problem again. Oh, and the way the links are now, it offers more options for the user. Think about this... before, if you wanted the link to open in the current window, you couldn't.

Rick could never write enough code to save you from yourself.

Here is a list of plugins to help you: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=5652 (Alpha Blur) viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2178 (Alpha Mask Import) viewtopic.php?p=34835 (Alpha to Grayscale--opposite of Alpha Mask Import) Or, just for fun: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=4408 (CMYK)

Funny, when I first read this topic, I thought the same thing. I just figured that they were mistaken and it had never worked with Paint.NET. (Perhaps they used a different font, or they used a different program.)

OK, so that plugin needs 2 DLL files in order to work. Did you install both?

Have you tried InkScape?