crosswalker

Hey Rick, I just updated to 3.0 beta 1 and was thinking. The installer as it is now seems to be bigger than necessary as far as windows size and quantity goes. Would it be possible to make a small installer, like google desktop's, where the window consists of a logo, status bar, and perhaps a couple check boxes and a text bar for path (minus the latter for the updater). Also, all of that would be contained in one window instead of the current two window setup. As the title says, it's not a critical thing, just a thought. Great job with 3.0!

"You know, I liked the old logo better... =/" The old logo has a Windows XP feel to it, which is what most of us are used to. The new logo is more professional and vista-ish. I personally like it.

I like the idea of a "handled" free form tool, I'm picturing something like adobe illustrators curve tool where you can keep adding additional segments of continuous curve(spline or bezier)

Is the grid function of PDN what you're looking for? if you zoom your image in enough (can't remember the exact percentage) and click the grid button in the toolbar (the one that looks like a grid) it will turn the grid on. It doesn't save your image like that, but it can give you some guidance while working on it.

1st ?: Be a bit more specific. The cutting tool is pretty simple as it is. Are you looking for an auto edge finding cutting tool? If so, nope, not yet. 2nd ?: It sounds like your using a rather inefficient method of outlining an image(if that's what you're trying to achieve). To the get the results that I think your going for, Just do the following: Original is a lightning orbish thing I made a loooong time ago in PDN 2.6: 1 - Select the background layer 2 - Press ctrl+A to select the whole layer, then press delete to make it all transparent(gray checkerboard represents transparency in PDN and most other programs) 3 - Paste in the picture that you want outlined. 4 - Create a new layer 5 - On that new layer, draw the figure that you want the outline to be. 6 - Using the magic wand, select the outside of the figure or (if you want to be more perfectionist) trace the figure in roughly the middle of the outline with the lasso select tool and press ctrl+i to select the outside of the figure. (basically, what you want to do here is select the portion that you want deleted) Note: I made the selected portion green, so that you could see it. 7 - Select the layer that has your original picture in it. 8 - Press delete to clear the portion that you previously selected and voilla you have an outlined picture. Hope that helps!

Just a thought, Is there any way that you could check the real encoding of a file before opening it and then open it maybe with a dialog that asks the user to rename it?

great!!

now that I think about it, those two images look like they were done in Art Rage or another digital painting program. Not to steer you away from PDN but it might be easier to get the initial color sections with ArtRage.

Probably your best bet would be to pick the color that you want to use and draw different shapes and/or lines on a new layer (so that you can change the background color later easily). Once you've done that, play with the different blurs (radial blur, motion blur and possibly zoom blur would be your best bet). Try different settings and make more than one layer of color blurs to increase complexity.

er...bitmaps should keep the file size. If you just open it as a bmp and save it as a bmp when you're done. Usually only compressed image formats (ie: png, gif, jpeg) goof up the file size.

if you want to edit just the selection area (and not the pic underneath it) use the selection tool with the white arrow. The default is blue, which modifies whatever's selected, the white arrow modifies the actual selection itself but otherwise works the same way as the blue.

I've always kindof wondered why there were "rotate 270" options in that menu. Not that there's a problem, they just seem rather superfluous perhaps something like this would be slimmer:

I don't want to further annoy people with arguments but I must throw in my bit of information, just in case it deters some bad PR for PDN. sysrpl: I think pretty much everyone would aggree that this is a statement, not an attack, but also not a request. fair enough? sysrpl: That is all Rick said, period. with me so far? Rick was simply responding to your statement with a statement not a personal attack or a "psh, I don't care about your request." He responded with a simple, non aggressive, statement. PDN wasn't designed for vector images. Actually, if you want to get techinical, your statement didn't even ask for a response, but Rick was kind enough to give you a response so that you could find a program that does support vector graphics (like inkscape). In Summary: 1: Don't expect an answer when you don't ask a question. 2: If someone is kind enough to you to reply to your statement, don't fly off the handle and start accusing people of being unfriendly and having a bad community. 3: Don't publicly diss a program because of what you experienced(or think you experienced) on a forum. People are fallable, they're not perfect, don't expect everyone to say exactly the right thing all the time. If you're representing a program, do just that, represent the program, not its developers. crosswalker

I was just working on an image tonight and, while trying to minimize interferance from the colors, layers, etc. windows, I thought it would be really handy if you could drag the canvas around the screen. Instead of having it always centered, it would be sometimes beneficial to be able to move it to, say the top of the workspace. Just a thought crosswalker

*shakes head* - because tabs is way more efficient. Especially with Rick's thumbnail tabs. You can have tons of images open and flip though them visually! Go Rick and the dev team!!

camera nut: you would probably get better help if you could post one of the "beautiful trees"

it might be a bit quicker to just select the area with the lasso, circle, or rectangular select tools. If you need to add to the selection, just hold down ctrl while drawing it. Then you could fill it with the paint bucket.

On-Topic: If you want to do a watermark probably the best solution would be to simply shrink the pic to whatever size you want it to be, stick it on a new layer, and adjust the transparency. off-topic - trickman: I think color to alpha takes the intensity of the color and converts it to alpha but the rgb values stay the same. but like, if you had gray selected, gray would be completely transparent (or opaque, haven't used gimp in a while) and then the alpha value would drop off based on the intensity of gray in all other selected pixels.

wow, I'm stupid, my bad I don't know why I assumed png. lol, perhaps because it's late.

yeah, It feels a lot like Microsoft Office '07

lol, Picc84, hopefully they have firefox or IE7 and can see that you did something to the image. *grumbles about IE*

The whole program feels lighter and brighter. I like it. Yes, I know this is completely unproductive.

I agree, that feature would be extremely usefull for cutting out circular objects.

Off topic but what kind of things does .NET 3.0 allow for? I know it's cool and all but what specifically does it do?

um...Illnab, I understand your point, and you're probably right, but just because something's "always been" doesn't mean that it always will be.