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It uses a bit of every corner in this: It was originally a typical-looking polar inversion until I cut and pasted the corners in a new layer and flipped them all so they're all in the top-left corner, then I used layer blending to make the colorful fractal-like effect you see. Then I added the border, text, and Dark Samus to make it a little more exciting. Maybe later I'll try to recreate it and post the polar inverted wallpaper before I flipped and cropped it.

Yeah, I'm trying to work on that... Updated: Now she's "inside" the signature (behind the black border).

Okay, added a person into the sig: (Dark Samus; Metroid Prime 2, and Prime 3)

Use photobucket I have a feeling that this is the shortest time it took to reach the quota of any message board in the Forumer database... maybe Rick can purchase more space.

Well, I was planning on keeping this one a secret till the end of the week [sOTW], but I gave in

I guess, but I know that CMD has something extreemly good behind the palm of his hand, and I'm trying to walk around him in order to see behind that palm... Ah well, I have a problem with keeping things to myself for so long: Source image is mine: http://usedhonda.deviantart.com/art/73982770 The problem is that I don't know whether I should keep it's ambient feel, or add something like a car or person into it...

I was looking for a good effect to put on one of my pictures, and Polar Inversion seems to be the best. I'm not sure if I should post it, though. I'll just put it in Area 51 for now But just a little hint: My border is like Void's, and as for the image itself, you can't tell it used Polar Inversion, as I cropped it (it was a 1600x1200 image, not exactly sig size), removing the center of the inversion (looks ugly otherwise). Here's another hint as to what it looks like: I may make it my official forum sig (looks 3x better than my current one, IMO).

Don't download beta versions! If you simply keep the official releases, it won't expire! And you can also keep a copy of the folder on a flash drive for instant use on any Vista PC and many XP PCs, without modifying the Registry (which can cause Paint.NET to go ca-put if you treat it like junk).

So far, Rick has made about 25% transfer to the .NET framework. Every few updates, there's a little bit that may require .NET 3.0, such as a planned use of Microsoft's new file type, HD (the file extension is .hdp I think). You can get the HD plugin Beta here. I think Rick will also use 3.0/3.5 for extended file types (like 8-bit PNGs and 32-bit BMPs).

If the van happens to be white, your in good luck. It's easy to recolor and skin a white vehicle than a black one. It's just a matter of creating new layers, making flames or whatever with the brush and line/curve tools, and playing with the layer properties (like setting the blending mode to Multiply). Let me know if what I just said is too complicated

Well, I normally take the long and hard process of Alpha Masking my rough edges away (takes about 15 minutes, don't ask how I do it ). Otherwise, there really isn't any good way to feather to my knowledge.

If you mean a transparency bar, then that already exists: Or as an alternative, you can adjust the transparency of the entire layer via Layer Properties.

However, there is an alternative to this: Duplicate the picture's layer On the bottom layer, adjust the image to your liking (i.e. lighten and blur) Select the upper layer, and use the eraser* to remove the desired area *For a more-controlled outcome, click advanced on the Color window and lower the Alpha/transparency value to something like 8.

Done for a friend (orig.): (the PNG version is over 1.5MB) I don't really like it. I think I added too much noise, the shadow is too little and unnecessary, and is way to small resolution-wise (to name a few problems). At least it looks somewhat real :?

Gee, you should do something about that cough*. I just looked it up on Forumer's forum, and it's just flat out impossible unless Rick got an IPB instead of phpBB *I'm allergic to things I disagree with!

No! No install GIMP! I've had this problem before. I never understood it, and I don't think I ever will. There's a 3-minute solution, and a 30-minute solution. I don't know the 3-minute solution, unfortunately. Basically, what happened is that one of the Registry keys hidden deep below the surface of Windows XP got corrupted (possibly by a computer crash) and messed with Paint.NET, making it almost impossible to update, install, uninstall, or repair it. This was a problem I had for several months with no solution until I figured out what you just read. To fix this, you'll need to open up the Windows Registry Editor (Start> Run...> regedit). Once there, hit Ctrl+F, then type "paint" and hit enter. The reason I want to to type "paint" and not Paint.NET is because there may be registry keys that use "paintdotnet" instead. Anyways, if you find something that has to do with Paint.NET, delete it (please make sure it has to do with PDN before you hit that Delete button!). Every time you delete a key, just hit Ctrl+F and continue searching until there are no more. Now you can go to your Paint.NET folder (probably in c:/program files/paint.net), back up your Effects and File Types folder to another location (if there's anything in there), and delete the Paint.NET directory (i.e. every thing in there). Congratulations, you just uninstalled Paint.NET manually! You can now go to http://www.getpaint.net/download.html and install v3.20 via installer with no problem.

It isn't possible for Rick to change the forum's favicon, but it just may be possible for a Forumer admin to do it (for a fee of course). BTW, get Firefox

Rick... there's no CNET Download mirror on the download page. Are you going to stop hosting PDN on Download.com? It would be a shame because I discovered Paint.NET there.

Hey Rick, you should put a Digg button on the download page (better yet, the homepage). It'll generate more diggs than posting a thread on the forum alone.

I gotta admit, iyeru42, you're one of the most knowledgeable new guys on the block graphic editor-wise. You understand the effects, tools, UI, and terms that all graphic designers should know. Now that I've buttered you up, I'll give you a little bit of bad news. Having a free transform in the form of a Photoshop-like smudge or blur tool may not become reality for a while (if it ever will). A feature like this would probably require a re-structuring of Paint.NET's editing system, an overhaul that would only be fit for PDN v4.x

*dugg* Just as I do every release

*cough*The fourth-to-last item in the list*cough*

It may be very doable in the future! From what I hope (and hope alone), Rick or someone else will host a site where you can upload plugins, and Paint.NET will be able to track them, advising the user of them (and maybe a few preview images to go with it).

I suggested this in the past as well. My concept was to have a fullscreen button (F11 shortcut), then have a translucent, auto-hiding sidebar that you can place your windows and menus in (which would also work while not in fullscreen mode). This concept of mine was applied for the first MSC (Paint.NET skin), which I'm too lazy to pull up.

That was my first thought as well. But look! He mentioned my name in his comment! 8)