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Can we get Wet Floor Support in Paint.net? Wet Floor is that effect that is normally seen with most Ajax/Web 2.0 logos.
Off Topic: I liked the old paint.net icon from 2.72. Not this new one, can we get the old one back?
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(1) I mean insert a new layer above the selected oneBut I would rather have a feature to lock a layer for editing, so I don’t accidentally edit the wrong layer.
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a lock layer option would be good
bump!
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I'm glad you asked your question because even my answer doesn't fulfill your needs exactly, it gave me a better solution to my own problem.
And that...my friend...is the power of conversation and individual thought
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f, did you read my (interim) solution to your problem above?
Yes. and thank you for taking the time to try and help out.
However, it is not that it is impossible to so right now, this whole thing. There are many ways. It is that it is either unintuitive (the solution you are suggesting) or cumbersome (the solution I use to to this).
Your solution is unintuitive (to me at least), because you have to picture (pun intended) your whole picture in your head, as you try to fit it to the smaller canvas size. You do this by anticipating what the picture looks like as only the part that is on the canvas is shown. If your selection is small for example, you have to do a lot of moving around. If you, in the middle of fitting your picture to the canvas decide you selection must be bigger you have to change the canvas size and start over.
The cumbersome (but more intuitive) way I have chosen to "cope" with the missing feature is by
1. Pressing S (selection tool)
2. Drawing a selection close to the size I want
3. Pressing M twice (Move tool)
4. Adjusting X axis with mouse
5. Adjusting Y axis with mouse
6. Move selection to the specified place on picture
7. CTRL+SHIFT+X (crop to selection) or copy the selection or whatever is needed.
that is the reason I would like the feature I am suggesting.
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It would be nice if the gradients that are present in v3 had one more choice. As far as I can tell it is not possible to a gradient where the center has 0% transparent and the transparency increases outward in a circle. This is useful if e.g. you have a picture where the center (e.g. the face of someone) should be the most visible and everything around it should fade. AFAIK this type seems to be the opposite of the Radial gradient currently in Paint.Net v3
If this is possible, and it is just me who doesn't how to use the gradient feature well enough, I would appreciate if someone could tell me how it is done?
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I was planning to do something for this in 3.0 but it just didn't make the cut in the time that was available.
The design is to put some text entry boxes up in the toolbar. When you draw a rectangle selection, for instance, these text boxes will be populated with the dimensions you have drawn. You can then edit the text to be the exact size you want the selection to be (you can also type in values before drawing the selection, of course).
Or maybe the feature could, more easily, be implemented by making the dimensions that are shown in the status bar when you resize you selection, clickable (where it currently says "Selected area XXX x XXX (XXX pixels), which when pressed pops up an XY resize window. I.e. you create a selection (by pressing S and drawing out a selection), then click the statusbar where is says "Selected area....." and in that window you would be able to define a specified size. I'm repeating myself, but a keyboard shortcut for this would of course be nice
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I was planning to do something for this in 3.0 but it just didn't make the cut in the time that was available.
The design is to put some text entry boxes up in the toolbar. When you draw a rectangle selection, for instance, these text boxes will be populated with the dimensions you have drawn. You can then edit the text to be the exact size you want the selection to be (you can also type in values before drawing the selection, of course).
Thank you for acknowledging my request, even though you have decided to delay/postpone/just-not-do-it.
I like the approach you are suggesting, but I still think that a keyboard shortcut that makes it is possible to create the X and Y dimension, then followed by pressing ENTER (or the OK button), creates a selection and then automatically selects the Move Tool (where you can move the selection, not the content behind it - i.e. when the selection is transparently blue), is worth considering. It could work within the approach you are suggesting to.
BTW, thanks for a truly great free picture editing program. v3 i shaping up to be a very nice upgrade to Paint.Net.
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You could just drag the selection to the markers on the ruler, then move it.
Yes but is exactly the situation I want to avoid. I want to be able to DEFINE the size of the selection, not having to deal with dragging out a selection to a specified size.
Try working with a 5000*3000 size picture and drag out a 343*321 selection. A shortcut that brings up a selection size selector would be better, IMHO.
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Use the Rectangle selection tool, than move it, that way, you can move certain parts...
That is not whast I am looking. If I want to have a selection made that is precisely 300*600, I would have to use the Move tool and move it a little bit one way and a little bit the other way to make the selection exactly 300*600. There is no way to define a selection to be exactly 300*600.
So to make it more clear, maybe what I want is a menu item called in "Image" => "Selection Size" => a-way-to-specify-the-X-and-Y-axis of the selection wanted
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I would like to request that the ability to define a selection be added. E.g. being able to define a 300*600 (or any other) area in the "Move" tool
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Yes, functionality changes. A Microsoft Service Pack officially makes fuctionality changes (including addition of new components). A Service Pack also tends to include many alleged security fixes released prior to it conviently encapsulated into a single package.Functionality changes? It's Windows XP, it functions just like it always has. -
There are many, but probably the greatest are the following:Like what, exactly? I don't see anything wrong with SP2. You can kill the security service through spybot, if you wish.Internet Explorer functionality changes.
Some applications failing to function correctly, while functioning correectly without Service Pack 2 installed.
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If "security improvements" is what SP2 only has, there may not be objection; it is the functionaliy changes that are objectionable.Just install SP2. It's over two years old now, it's free, and has numerous regular and security improvements.I honestly do not understand anyone's trepidation about installing it.
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Indeed. That would solve this problem. However, problems of greater magnitude would exist if SP2 is installed.Just install SP2. Problem solved. -
The quoted text was posted after I started writing the post after it and before I posted the writing. Any comments previously by f were not meant to apply to the quoted text.Just install SP2. Problem solved.Trust me when I say that I know what I'm doing when it comes to this stuff. SP2 has been out for over 2 years and is a free upgrade.
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I do not believe that Paint.NET is incompatible with Windows XP with Service Pack 1 (or even no Service Pack).More than likely Like all programs, as new versions develop, it requires more and more, so I do not belive that Rick will make 3.x "compatible" with Service Pack 1Modifying/Bypassing the Paint.NET operating system version check of the installer should allow Paint.NET to install and correctly function on Windows XP without Service Pack 2.
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I would like a change in System Requirements for Paint.NET.
I know many people, running Windows XP Home/Professional with Service Pack 1, who will not use (and for good reason) Paint.NET because of the seemingly unnecessary requirement of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP.
I concur in the belief that Windows XP Service Pack 2 should not be necessary for Paint.NET on Windows XP.
I request System Requirements for the next Paint.NET to be more flexible in System Requirements.
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Hi,
Could you please make it so that the save-as screen doesnt automaticly set the viewtype to 'thumbnails' everytime? But just leave it on the type I set it to and want it to keep using: 'details'.
Tnx.
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Hi.
i was wondering if somebody could explain what exactly is happening at the very last stage of installation, after it's done coping files and says something along the lines of 'optimizing for better performance on your system'
thanks.
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I think I've found a bug where the magic wand selects everything in the whole picture. I tested this by making a new file, making it all white and drawing a black square. The magic wand picked up everything including the black square which was against a white background.
Also, the paint bucket doesn't always fill in an area. that it's meant to.
e.g. before filling w/1 square outline
When I fill w/the paint bucket inside the square.
Thanks.
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duplicate original layer
Change the layer to B&W - Layers -> Adjustments -> Black & White
- Layers -> Adjustments -> Invert Colors
Change the blending mode to overlay and adjust the opacityor you could use Levels or Curves or Brightness/Contrast
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G3 is a fax standard. It is mentioned in more detail here:
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When saving as a tiff is the file G3 compliant?
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"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\my pictures" gets reset when file/open dialog is displayed. This could be a function of the dialog which you have no control over I suppose.
Hooray!
Wet Floor
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Here's one that has wet floor.