crosswalker
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If it would save considerable time (and if you're programaticaly inclined) you could download the source code and change that feature.
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Alternatively, you could use the alpha mask plugin. It can be found in the plugins section of the forum.
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I agree, there are many times when it would speed things up quite a bit.
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Step by step, but basically the same as BoltBaits answer.
1) Duplicate the layer containing the object to be blurred.
2) Blur the top layer by the maximum blur desired.
3) Set the primary color to White 100% transparency (opaque) and the secondary color to White with 0% transparency (transparent)
4) Draw a linear gradient (or any other type of gradient really) on the blurred layer with the alpha only option selected.
5) Adjust the opaqity of the blurred layer to your preferences.
6) You're done!
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Generally, the normal red eye filter doesn't work well for animals though, which is what I believe sabric was looking for. to do that, I'd suggest the conditional hue/saturation plugin. You can use that to lower the saturation (basically, to make it black and white) of the eye coloration in the animal. This way seems to be a little bit easier than the curves method, unless you have a fairly thorough knowledge of how curves work.
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If everyone reads the rules (and follows them), it makes the forum a much more hospitable place. Unfriendly or not, in some cases, it is necessary.
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"the program I used to have I just copied and pasted, but apparently that can't be done here.... "
I think perhaps what you were previously using is object layering. Basically, if you paste an image into a scene, it becomes a new layer, and you can click on it to move, rotate, etc. Paint.NET uses more of a canvas layering approach. Think of it as transparency slides stacked on top of one another. PDN doesn't automatically create a new layer for a pasted image, although if you use ctrl+shift+v instead of ctrl+v to paste, it will paste the object into a new layer.
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Hey Rick,
Just a thought. I generally try to keep layers named when I'm working with PDN, but if I've got several layer open, clicking each, then clicking the layer properties menu, then typing it in, then exiting the window can be a bit cumbersome. How hard would it be to implement something like the windows explorer implementation of file renaming - Where you click the name of a file, then click again relatively quickly and the name turns into a text box from which you can rename the file? personally, I'd see this as a big speed increase, as far as work flow goes.
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Just use the resize tool
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Depending on where you save the image, you may not get the "set as desktop background" option in the context menu. If that occurs, you can right click on an empty portion of your desktop, then select properties, go to the background tab, click browse, find and open your image. When you set an image as a background, windows automatically creates a bitmap(BMP) copy of it called wallpaper1.bmp. I would recommend saving the fiel as a bmp originally as jpeg is a lossy codec and it'll just be transferred to a bitmap anyway.
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This can be annoying sometimes. Perhaps Rick or someone else could develop a custom save dialog (not windows default) I'd do it if I had the time, but unfortunately, I don't.
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The bottom image can be replicated by...
1. create a new image
2. create a new layer on which to draw your main shape
3. draw whatever shape you're going to highlight using the various tools in the toolbox
4. use the magic wand to select the area outside of the shape that you just created, press ctrl+i to select the whole shape.
5. create another layer and using either the gradient plugin or the built in gradient tool, draw a gradient from solid black to transparent black (click more on the colors window for the transparency setting) The solid black should start at the base of your image and face vertically to the top.
6. If you want to make it a little smoother around the edges, use the feather plugin available in the plugins section of the forum.
7. create a new layer and draw the shape of the highlight in solid white (for the above example, a combination of lines and bezier curves would probably work best)
8. Adjust the transparency setting for the highlight and shadow(black gradient) layers to your preference.
9. and you're done!
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I agree with Rick. I hadn't considered trying to recreate a "normal" undo timeline or the non-human readable format.
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If each layer has its own history, then where does image-wide history data go?
I'm not entirely sure how it is done now, but, in xml speak, it could be as follows:
The image wide adjustments could perhaps have a separate area on screen, but in the same window.
If I create a new layer, or delete a layer, how does that affect the granularized history?Continuing on the above, a new layer could simply add a new to the history file.
It also becomes very confusing to develop and test, and to use. Things just wouldn't always happen as you'd expect them to even if it was indeed working correctly.How so?
No, it's just simpler to keep "time" as a one-dimensional entity in Paint.NET.Aye, perhaps....maybe I should get the PDN source and try implementing it. In the process of which I will probably find that I agree wholeheartedly with Rick on this
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Hey Rick,
How difficult would it be to make the undo history feature layer specific. Basically what I'm looking for is a way to undo things on one layer, while retaining the other layers. :idea: Perhaps a combined layers/undo box could expedite such a feature. Maybe something like this?
Just a quick example, obviously there are some things that I didn't put in the window.
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What does a magnetic lasso do that the regular one doesn't? I'm just curious.
Generally a magnetic lasso is a combination of a magic wand and a lasso. You click (or draw) multiple points along the border of an object and it detects what you're outlining (via. color difference I think) and applies an algorithm to select the object entirely. I'm not exactly sure of the accuracy of that. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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Kim Komando (very big radio show about all things computerized) recommends PDN on her website (komando.com, in the downloads section)
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yeah, lots of full 24(32?) bit png avatars on a forum is really annoying on dialup. When I try to log on to a forum at a dialup comp it's like watching water boil.
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I think the palette is measured for each individual frame. So, on the first frame, you're fine, just 256 shades of gray, but then you add the orange in the next frame, it looks like it's about 3-4 shades of orange. That drops the possible shades of gray down to only 252-251. So if you have a gray that's very similar to another, but not exactly the same, it will show up right in the first frame, but it will merge with the other shade of gray when the orange takes over the palette.
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If you don't want to use the photo flood fill plugin, you can also just type the text on the 3rd layer.
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Actually, I'm not exactly sure which file you'd change as I haven't done it myself. Basically you'd just go in and change the keypress events I think. I'm probably completely wrong on procedure though. Perhaps Rick could point you to the right file and way to do this.
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@Raven: You could always get the code and compile a custom version.
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It could be that you're working on the wrong layer when you try to move the picture. If you're new to layers, basically think of them as transparency slides stacked on top of one another. The import from file tool (I'm assuming you're getting it from the menu "Layers->import from file") puts the photograph on a new layer, above the background. If you look in the little layers window (it's in the bottom right corner of the screen by default) you should see two layers after you successfully import a layer from a file. The one that's blue is the selected layer. Anything you do with the tools will affect that layer only. Make sure when you move the photo that you have the proper layer selected. Depending on size, you should be able to see which layer is the right one by looking at the thumbnails in the layers window.
Hope that helps!
Let me know if it doesn't
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If you're dealing with distinct colors, you could just use the magic wand at 0 tollerance while zoomed in to 1200% or so.
I need some advice on image manipulation please!
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hey, I was messing around with this image today and came up with something. Thought I'd share.