MadJik

Please don't name your files with a version number. The older version will have to be deleted manually!

From the source file on the first post you could compile your own DLL with CodeLab: // Name: CutOut Effect // Title: CutOut Effect // Author: Illnab1024 // Submenu: Color // URL: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/1533-cutout-effect-plug-in/ #region UICode int Amount1=32; //[1,255]Amount #endregion void Render(Surface dst, Surface src, Rectangle rect) { int interval = (Amount1); int R; int B; int G; int A; float divR; float divB; float divG; float divA; ColorBgra CurrentPixel; for (int y = rect.Top; y < rect.Bottom; y++) { for (int x = rect.Left; x < rect.Right; x++) { ColorBgra source = src[x, y]; divR = source.R / interval; divB = source.B / interval; divG = source.G / interval; divA = source.A / interval; R = (int)System.Math.Ceiling(divR); B = (int)System.Math.Ceiling(divB); G = (int)System.Math.Ceiling(divG); A = (int)System.Math.Ceiling(divA); R *= interval; B *= interval; G *= interval; A = 255; //A * interval; ColorBgra fin = dst[x, y]; fin.R = (byte)(R); fin.B = (byte)(; fin.G = (byte)(G); fin.A = (byte)(A); dst[x, y] = fin; } } } Save this code as Cutout.cs Open this file within CodeLab Save as DLL Close/open PDN tada...

Yes it works now.

Donut distortion Effect Plugin What's this? It would be more handy if I can find some good math skills to help me with sinus & co. formulas. Don't hesitate to PM if you like to solve my problem! I'm not really happy with this distortion effect as I've not find the correct formula to apply what I had in mind. But for now it gives some good results enough to be published. How does it works? The initial idea was to distort the image by a rotation between 2 circles and so create something like a Donut aspect. This is to illustrate the idea: The red Arc should be the distortion of the green segment. The result for now is just a distortion between 2 circles... and I named it the Donut effect! Before: After: I've found 4 modes of distortions: This is a test of the modes on lightrays: Download the DLL Plugin Donut.dll Here is the DLL The MadJik's All plugins package is available ! http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?showtopic=7186 How to install Close Paint.net Classic version of Paint.net Unzip and (re)place the DLL in your Effect folder usually: C:/Program Files/Paint.NET/Effects Microsoft Store version of Paint.net Unzip and (re)place the DLL in your Effect folder usually: /My Documents/paint.net App Files/Effects/ You have to adapt for your language My Documents The User interface This plugin is added to the menu Effects, submenu Distort. External radius (0,1000, dft 300) Set the size of the donut by choosing its radius. Internal radius (0,1000, dft 100) Set the size of the hole of the donut. Unit (checkbox, dft unchecked) unchecked: External and internal raduis values are in pixels checked: The values are in 1/1000 based on the smallest size of the selection. - ex: for a 800x600 image, 1000 represents the full raduis of 600 = 300px This is usefull to redo the effect over the image with a small selection here and there: Distortion angle (-360,+360, dft 10) This value is issued to set the "strength" of the distortion. Quality Increasing the quality is slowering the rendering a bit, and should reduce the pixelisation. Effect Mix This is a slider to mix the final image with the orignal image to make the effect more or less subtile. Mode Choose the distortion mode (Soft, medium, hard, distroy). New (yma: 170716) - Erase background - Offset vector Some examples:

lines fractal is just hanging. Nothing happens. I have to terminate PDN!

I've unburried old tut from my archive... Adaptation for PDN of a French tutorial for PS... (exists perhaps in english) http://www.dada-concept.com/formation/confirme/puzzle/pave.htm We want to create from a picture a aspect 'puzzle like' with pentaminos pieces. (pentamino: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomino) 1.Create a checker (with the gridline plugin). Square size depends on your picture size. In my example the picture in 800x600 and square is 50x50. So the checker is 16x12. Just be sure the checker exactly fills the picture (ie: square size x nb of square = border size ; 50x16=800 AND 50x12=600) 2.Leave one row on each border as a margin. Set the tolerance to 0%. Use the paint bucket tool to fill and draw pentaminos. Use 5-6 differents colors to separe clearly the pieces. In the end fill the margin with white color. With my example now I have a white margin of 50px around 14x10 pentaminos checker... 3.Add a layer and put the picture you want to work with. The picture could overwrite the margin. But only the part covering the checker will be kept in the end. Uncheck the layer to make it invisible. 4.Add as many layers as colors you've used step 2 (5-6 colors). You could give each layer a name of these color. For each color repeat this list of actions: a.Use the magic wand (tolerance 0%) and select one color at a time on the checker layer (shift+left click). b.With this active selection go to the layer with the picture and COPY. c.Select an empty layer (or the layer named for the selected color) and PASTE. On this picture: Red is done (copy/paste) and pink is selected. 5.At this point we have 4-5 pieces per layer and the picture is splitted in 5-6 layers. Go through each layer and with the rectangle selection (short key S) tool select only one piece and move it (short key M) a bit (up/down/left/right/rotate) some pixels (rotate is made by right click). Tip1: Make all layers invisible and only the one you're working on should be visible. Tip2: If the pieces are too closed together and the rectangle selection take a part of a near piece, with the rectangle selection tool you could right-click and drag to exclude from the active selection. Tip3: Leave some piece unmoved... Tip4: Rotate with the move tool is badly aliased. You could use the layer rotate instead (Ctrl+Shift+Z and only 'angle'). Be sure the selection area is big enough because the piece could be cut by a too high rotation angle. In case of difficulties with that you'ld have to cut/paste the piece to an empty (temporary) layer rotate this layer and cut/paste back to the layer with pieces. On this picture: I'm working on the Pink layer. One piece has been moved/rotated. One other is selected (a selection part is excluded). 6.On each layer with pieces, apply this list of actions: a.Feather b.Drop shadow : Offset x=1, Offset y=1, Blur radius=0 (or 1), color black c.(optional Ctrl+F to repeat drop shadow) d.Drop shadow : Offset x=-1, Offset y=-1, Blur radius=0 (or 1), color white e.(optional Ctrl+F to repeat drop shadow) Tip: You could move some layers up or down to arrange the pieces you want most on top. 7.Add a new layer and fill it with a gradient and move it down as a background. Final tips: 1. The colored canvas could be an idea to 'slice & save for web' stuff. If you don't rotate/move, then you could save each single piece as a file... 2. Pentamino is only a suggestion (and easy solution). You could create every colored canvas you want (Map of USA...) Enjoy!

one problem is that I do not know the back of the page ...

How do you think the curl straight should be ? Could you provide a image ? Isn't it like the tube effect ? http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?showtopic=3491

Hi, It is not only compiling (this is fast enough to ignore it) but it runs the effect on the image. If you have some "frozen" period, then you should considere to write your code over a smaller image. Personaly I'm using a external editor as long as I'm not debugging...

My bad... Sorry. The answer to the request was more as "a way to do it"...

It seems the heron is a black hole on which you apply an outline, and this is why the white outline is covering the black legs. The heron must be a colored object (eventually in black) without anything else outside it (so on a transparent background). Then the white outline will grow outside the bird...

It's mainly the pixelate plugin after creating a colored background.

I give it a try: http://i54.tinypic.com/2uqke3d.png 1600x400 <200kb

Hi, My view on this (just my humble opinion): 1. The D should be squared instead rounded... 2. The background halo (blue behind the L, magneta behing the Ddance) give some unbalanced aspect. 3. Are these colors a good choice? I'm missing yellow or green. 4. I would try with a thin white 3d grid under the dance floors words.

This may help: http://www.fun-with-pictures.com/image-files/heron-silhouette.jpg To use the outline effect you must have an object (the black bird surounded by transparent). So the first step is to delete the white area with the magic wand tool. Don't take care of the grey pixels as you will add a white outline they aren't a problem. Set the strenght to max. Then outline again with a black color. The Red circle and the lightrays haven't the same center point, it gives a strange aspect... It is important to work with a large image for a logo. Think you could need it for a large ads poster in a stadium...

I need to pratice more, but I already can say that I like your pack !

Thanks, I'm surprised too most of the time...

I've missed this due to holidays... The method used to blur takes the corners of the selection and it gives a good execution time. I've not time for now to think about another way... but I'm sure it'll be slow.

The UI from my screenshot is skeezed (plugin Gravity with "erase similar lines" on) to reduce the size. And it should work with the version available for download (see the link on the first post).

You have to cut out the parts into separated layers. It will allow you to change the colors by any way (curves, flip, etc) without changing the background. You could search for some tutos for this:

I like the image, but to use it for a band I suggest this: 1.For this kind of image to be used as flyer, cd jackets, adv. etc. I strongly recommand to work with a large canvas (4000x3000 instead 800x600). 2.There are a lot of details hard to determine, that gives a kind of geometric noise. I would second that with a few addnoise effect... 3.The grayscale isn't here execpt the name. Try to fill the font with a gray gradient...

Also you could give a try to the volutes effect: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?showtopic=14478

First, you have to work on a larger image, or it is better if you start with clean pictures of the persons (as you can't recover the blured part of the arms, etc) ... http://cache1.bigcartel.com/product_images/26899434/itunes_EPic_art.jpg Second, cut out the persons (that could be the hardest part depending on the start image). Third, choose/make the background you want. Then let us see how it looks before we could suggest some more steps...

These comps make me work and think and experiment new stuffs with PDN... Thanks for that. Congrats to the winners, thanks to the competitors and Chris.

Selection tool + Alt Key = substract from active selection...