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"Isn't short" is correct! But the effect works beautifully. Will have to try your steps and the alpha mask effect out to discover more. Thanks for the response.

After reading all the comments, I feel like I'm missing something good here; also feel rather sheepish in not knowing what I'm missing! Could someone kindly do a simple short tutorial? Thanks!

Could someone confirm if this plugin affects the 'Text' tool? After installing it, I couldn't insert any text onto a new layer. Succeeded after removing the new plugin. Wonder if this problem is peculiar to my notebook or whether it is a more widespread problem.

Thank, Madjik for sharing such a beautifully simple technique! Exquisitely simple and beautiful.

Hi Madjik, A closer look at your picture told me that you probably had two layers and moved the second layer to create the 3-dimensional effect! Thanks for another good plug-in as well as a simple example of how useful it could be!

Hi Madjik, I was trying to achieve the effects in your picture. So I applied the Oblique effect to the hexagons but found that some of the hexagons were out of alignment or incomplete. How did you create your picture?

I love this plugin by BoltBait and think that some of us will find it more useful to use it on a new layer so that the angle of the arrow can be adjusted. Suggested modification to his original steps: 1. Create a new layer (easier for adjustment of angle of arrow without affecting the background). 2. Use the color wheel to select your primary color. This is what this tool uses for the color of the arrow to draw. 3. Select the paint brush tool or the line drawing tool and change the brush width. 4. Using the rectangle select tool, draw a selection from the desired starting line point to the desired ending line point. 5. Click the Effects menu and choose Arrows... 6. Now you should be able to see the arrow. Adjust the settings on the dialog box for your desired arrow type and click OK to finalize the arrow. 7. With the arrow still selected, click onto the 'Move' tool 8. Depress right-mouse click without releasing, and adjust the angle of the arrow as needed.

Thanks for a great plugin! Possibly useful way to adjust angle of arrow: Choose the select tool, depress the right mouse button and rotating the selection to the required angle.

Many of Crazy Dan's links don't work for me. http://www.freewebs.com/cmdsketchpad/ Anyone with better luck?

Surprise, surprise! I first inserted text, then selected the text, and using the move tool was able to right-click and rotate the text to the angle that I wanted. Remembered this from a previous posting which I couldn't track down. But could be useful steps for others trying to do the same. If its done on a new layer, the background will be unaffected.

Thanks MadJik for the response. I could be mistaken but I believed that in an earlier version I could not only move the line of text but could also make it inclined by right-clicking and rotating it. Could anyone tell me if I'm mistaken?

Thot I used to be able to rotate text easily with the mouse after typing it. Recently, with version 3, I found that I could move the text but couldn't rotate it. Is there a new way of doing things or have I forgotten how it's done?! Appreciate advice.

Wonder if it would be feasible for the plug-ins to be dated on the Forum page so that we can know when to download the latest improved version. E.g Gradient Effects Plugin (23.1.07)

Nope, your technique definitely gives superior results. Didn't think of combining so many effects together - Oil Paint, Gaussian Blur, Glow, Toon effect etc! Was experimenting to get a better result from the Toon effect. Liked your result so much I printed out the steps and the photo for reference. Thanks.

Discovered one way to improve the results for some pictures: 1. Apply the toon effect to the background pic 2. Copy the toon effect to the clipboard 3. Undo the toon effect on the background to get its original state 4. Create a new layer, paste the clipboard contents, and then going to the Layer --> Layers Property, adjust the opacity to about 139 or whatever setting suits your eye. 5. Flatten the immage. I think these steps create quite lovely pictures.

Just used CCleaner.exe and it showed up a hidden and read-only file in one of my temporary folders. Is there a need and reason for this? Why can't the temporary file be obviously known to us all?

Wow!!! Thanks for a truly great plugin. Love all the useful photoediting tools.

Thanks for this very useful tip!!! I've been extremely frustrated over having to zoom in before being able to move or rotate but knowing this technique certainly takes the pain out of the process.

Couldn't you teach your dad to expand the canvas to the total width and height of all his aligned photos and then create a layer for each new photo? He could then easily align them and then flatten the image.

Wonder if some structure could be possibly given to the tutorials forum as the same topic occcurs frequently under different threads. Some of the discussions seem to be dated by the posting of new, simpler and more efficient techniques. Perhaps, the older ones could be edited out?

Thanks for the most helpful answers. Checked the resampling filter once again when I was reducing the photos and was shocked to see that it was really supersampling! Apologies for my confusion but how does supersampling compare with Lanczos? Any answers?

Wonder why some of us only have "*Bicubic will be used" as the "Best Quality" Resampling? whilst others have some "Supersampling" option that appears?

I often reduce and enlarge photo sizes depending on my need. Compared the results of Bicubic resampling with that of Lanczos and thought the latter gave better results. Wonder if there are bicubic resampling tricks that I don't know about? Don't think our English version has the supersampling feature.

I resized an identical photo using similar DPI with Paint.NET and with another freeware prog that used the Lanczos filter. The result was better in the other software. Curious as to whether there is any technical stuff that I need to know to improve my resizing in Paint.NET?

Appreciate help understanding if these two parameters are dealing with the same feature. When starting a new picture, I can click on the Colour window and alter the transparency setting for the Primary or Secondary Colours. This affects the tool that I'm using e.g. Text tool. When I go to the Layers-->Layer Properties window, I can adjust the opacity setting. This affects everything on the layer. When using the Drop Shadow effects, I read that you need a transparent background. Tried doing this on the original layer without any shadow appearing. Lowered the opacity setting for the layer and found the photo fading but no shadow appeared. But when a new layer is created without changing any property setting, the Drop Shadow effect works beautifully. Don't understand the difference in results! Is it caused by some opacity or transparency differences between the original and the new layer? Appreciate info.