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This is the forum for requests and suggestions.
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EER went through all the plugins and placed a note in red at the top of the first thread for every plugin incompatible with PDN4. If you find that it needs one, let me know and I'll add it.
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Wow, you're really bitter about this...
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Actually, yes:
Evanolds' Octagonal/Quad Reshape Matte: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/2642-octagonalquad-reshapematte/ (also available as part of this pack: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?showtopic=13003 )
Pyrochild's Grid Warp: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/25327-grid-warp/
The native Rotate/Zoom tool: http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/RotateZoom.html
dpy's Perspective effect: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/16197-perspective-effect-v20-update-030510/
Let us know if these help!
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Users already have the option to check for beta versions when they check for updates from within the program. I don't know what else you think would be possible to do. Flashing banner at the top of their Paint.NET screen? Email in their personal account that they never gave? Default canvas automatically has "Paint.NET 5 Beta Now Available!!!!" on it? All of that would be invasive and creepy.
Besides, one of your premises is that v4 is fundamentally flawed, or that it wouldn't have been released with just a few more beta testers, and that is just flat-out not true. Thousands of people* tried the beta, both "power users" and casual users alike.
The other premise is that anyone other than "hard core users" would have tried it if it were offered to them, and that's just not true. If you aren't on this forum, you're not likely to care about the beta.
Finally, it took PDN4 half a decade to finish. 3.0 was out for almost that long before any sort of alpha or beta testing for 4.0 was even announced. You are R-E-A-L-L-Y jumping the gun here.
*My quick estimation
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No, there is a command called Free Transform. http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/transforming-objects.html#id_5772 << I'm pretty sure this is what the OP meant, Humility.
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Two new mini-tuts grace our board today! First, Cc4FH pulls in her second mini-tut showing us how to make transparent layer "windows", while Humility becomes our first self-answerer to be promoted to mini-tut status with an intriguing method to digitally "ink" a pencil drawing. Enjoy!
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Mini-Tut #9
Digitally Inking a Pencil Drawing
by Humility, in response to Humility
Original thread: Help compensating for my new scanner's lack of auto cleanup.
Original post: 412702
On 7/7/2014 at 4:16 PM, Humility said:Before:
After:
As you can see the starting image is very messy with bleed through and smudges and stuff that doesn'r actually exist but is scanned in anyway.
Anyway my steps are
1. Click black and white.
2. Probably not relevant but for some reason the scanner causes the left edge of my paper to be messier then the rest. So before I can do anything else I have to select that area and lighten it with the 'curves' adjustment. Because its important that the entire image be at the same level of messiness.
3. Then I click brightness contrast, bring contrast all the way to the right, brightness to the left. Though sometimes i an image is extra bad I have to make brightness a little less to the left.
4. I then use oil painting with brush size and coarseness at minimal. This removes tiny specks and closes tiny gaps in the lines. Most of them at least. Still far better then anything else I've tried.
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Mini-Tut #8
Transparent Layer "Windows"
by Cc4FuzzyHuggles, in response to WayMoreConfused
Original thread: How do I make a background only visible through a certain part of a photo?
Original post: 413094
On 7/11/2014 at 6:36 PM, Cc4FuzzyHuggles said:This is pretty much the same as what Barbieq said.
It sounds like you will want to work with several layers. So, try this :
1st Layer/Bottom Layer -- Make Blue
2nd Layer /Middle Layer -- Your Picture's layer
3rd Layer/Top Layer -- Duplicate your picture and have it be your top layer
Make your top layer invisible for now. (It's only there for referencing and in case of mistakes.)
Next, on the middle layer, make holes in it so that the blue layer shows through. To do this, you can either use a selection tool and delete areas, OR you can erase areas with tools. For erasing, you can use the eraser tool, or you can use other tools with their blending mode set to "Overwrite" and your primary color set to "Opacity - Alpha 0".
Sample Images :
Use Three Layers
Optional, erase using overwrite blending mode and Opacity - Alpha set to 0.
Here are different ways to make holes in an image. The Checkered squares represent transparency.
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For text, try exploring text effect tutorials, and see if any teach you techniques that do what you're looking for.
http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/forum/23-text-effects/
Have Fun, and good luck getting creative now.
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Awesome. Updated and unpinned.
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I would like to downgrade. Is that possible? Because working without the plugins really stinks.
It is possible, but per the rules we can neither provide the program nor support it if you do. I recommend you try Cc4FH's recommendation above.
Incidentally, please check the rules. For several reasons, we don't allow people to request old versions here. Apologies, but I'll have to close the thread.
Best of luck.
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It isn't out yet, but should be out very soon. It's going through a sort of "accelerated beta" right now.
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For reference, here is an example of a perfectly respectful complaint:
I'm on Win7, 8GB RAM.
It opens two times slower, and basically any action done for the first time after opening the program takes much longer to load. Considering that most of the time I open the program just to quickly edit something, this is kind of annoying.We understand the frustration here, and we'd love to help try and sort it out. His first post was a bit condescending, but he turned it around for the second one.
How about this?
Hi everyone!
I JUST upgraded and ran into a problem which is bad, but I fixed it which is good!
Instant mood swings! YAY!
Here's the info from PaintDotNet about itself and the computer I am working on:
Application paint.net 4.0 (Final 4.0.5288.36565)
Build Date Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Hardware accelerated rendering (GPU) True
Animations True
Language en-US
OS Windows 8 (6.2.9200.0)
.NET Runtime 4.0.30319.18449
Physical Memory 8,010 MB
CPU Intel® Core i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20GHz
Architecture x64 (64-bit)
Process Mode 64-bit
Speed ~2195 MHz
Cores / Threads 8
Features DEP, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4_1, SSE4_2, XSAVE
Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
Dedicated Video RAM 1,986 MB
Dedicated System RAM 0 MB
Shared System RAM 2,048 MB
Vendor ID 0x10DE
Device ID 0x0FD1
Subsystem ID 0x06861025
Revision 161
LUID 0x00009B0E
Flags None
Outputs 1
Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
Dedicated Video RAM 1,986 MB
Dedicated System RAM 0 MB
Shared System RAM 2,048 MB
Vendor ID 0x10DE
Device ID 0x0FD1
Subsystem ID 0x06861025
Revision 161
LUID 0x00009CC5
Flags None
Outputs 0
Video Card Microsoft Basic Render Driver
Dedicated Video RAM 1,986 MB
Dedicated System RAM 0 MB
Shared System RAM 2,048 MB
Vendor ID 0x1414
Device ID 0x008C
Subsystem ID 0x00000000
Revision 0
LUID 0x00009C6B
Flags Software
Outputs 0
What is happening is that under the initial instal the window turns black, flashes on and off like strobe light when I move the mouse, and the cursor leaves little dots all over the place.
What I did to fix it was turn off hardware acceleration in the UI section of settings, its an instant fix. HOORAY!
I am curious about what I might be missing.
Is having to turn this off going to cost me some gigantic amount of performance?
I love this program by the way, I use it constantly and recommend it to everyone. Hope that stuff above is helpful. If needed I can send along screenshots, though they are tricky to do while moving the mouse!
Cheers!! And happy 4th of July!
MealeaExcellently well-written post. And do you see? It's a bug report! In fact, the troubleshooting forum has 3,067 examples proving that this
Not going to post my pc specs (which doesn't have intel graphics) when I get home if the only way for you guys to handle criticism and bug reports is with warnings and bans.
Bye.
couldn't be further from the truth. Your ignorance is showing, Araragi.
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Split out the off-topic part to its own thread, here: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/29084-old-version-demands-and-disrespect/#entry413044
But the point still remains:
From now on, any disrespectful behavior I see will be met with an immediate warn for the user. If you need help, ask for help respectfully. If you want to tear down the freely-given work of others, take your self-righteous first-world problems and go suck a lemon.
If you're having bugs or other problems with the program, they go here. We'd love to help.
If you have a legitimate question about how to do something in the new version, ask it here. We'd love to help.
If you want to be entitled and complain about something, that's here. We wish you would just go away.
Now, let's keep this on-topic, please.
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criticism and bug reports
Your post was neither of those things. It was straight-up abuse and disrespect. Had you posted honest criticism or a bug report, we would have happily helped you out.
So long. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
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I got it from here
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I find it kind of embarrassing how the beta lasted so long and how many of us ended up facing performance issues. I do like the program but it should have never made it to a public release with such an issue present.
No, you know what? Not ok. In any part of the world.
I've had it. From now on, any disrespectful behavior I see will be met with an immediate warn for the user. And I mean disrespect to anyone, not just Rick.
Araragi has just received the first one. It read:
That sort of entitled attitude will not be tolerated here. We'd love to help you with whatever problems you have, but you can't come to us with mind-vomit like that and expect to get assistance. There are people on this forum, not just robots, and they all deserve your respect. Get your attitude together or go away. I'm glad you like the program, and I hope you make the correct choice.Further disrespectful behavior will be met with a ban.
Seriously. I'm sick of this. If you need help, ask for help respectfully. If you want to tear down the freely-given work of others, take your self-righteous first-world problems and go suck a lemon.
Embarrassing? That so many people worked so hard for so long to give you a great piece of software free??
Your sense of entitlement is appalling.
^^This, 100%. There seems to be this bizarre thought process that people who have downloaded this program have the right to gripe about every little bit of the program's functionality and design if it isn't perfectly suited to their personal use cases. And not just question them, but to demand them rudely! Who taught you people manners? Why have you no civility? I was silent for too long; now, I've had enough.
All right, I'm off my soapbox. Let's get this thread back on-topic.
If you're having bugs or other problems with the program, they go here. We'd love to help.
If you have a legitimate question about how to do something in the new version, ask it here. We'd love to help.
If you want to be entitled and complain about something, that's here. We wish you would just go away.
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Yeah, and that's fine to say, but it really doesn't work itself out in practice. If people download something here, they expect to be able to get support for it here. Trust me, I've been here for eight years. It does happen.
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Oh, cool. I don't personally have the problem, so I was just guessing. Fixed.
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First, if you're still running version 4.0.0, upgrade to the latest version of Paint.NET (currently 4.0.1 as of this writing). It's no longer in Beta, holds the same great new features introduced in 4.0.0, and should give you great results. Head over to this page (always current) to get it.
If that didn't work, the below is worth a try (though they are fixes specific to 4.0.0, they're fixes worth trying anyway). Click the "show" link to view them. If none of that works, feel free to start a troubleshooting thread with your problem and we will try to help you as best we can.
Hidden Content:Having one of these issues? Try the fixes below before asking for help. Odds are it'll probably fix the problem. I promise.*Visual Artifacts, Flickering, etc.
paint.net 4.0 has some great new hardware acceleration, but it doesn't work for every video card yet. If you're having flickering, strange white squares when you move the mouse, and generally things that don't look quite right, try this fix:
1. Click the
Settings icon in the top-right.2. Toggle "Hardware accelerated rendering (GPU)" off.
Feeling adventurous? Head over to the paint.net 4.0 preview center and give the 4.0.1 Beta a try instead; many users have reported a fix with it."(null)" or "BadImageFormatException" Error on Start
Do you have an error that looks like this?
1. Navigate to C:\Program Files\Paint.NET (or whatever the directory where you installed the program).
2. Run the program PdnRepair.exe.
3. Restart paint.net.
If you're still having issues after trying these steps and have used the site search to make sure it hasn't been solved in another thread, feel free to start a troubleshooting thread with your problem and we will try to help you as best we can.
Good luck!
*Not really, but I hope it will help some people.
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We don't remove solved posts here. Someone else with the same issue may come along and be helped by your issue.
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I'll re-read them, I read them upon joining, I'm just a little concerned is all.
Okay, so the bottom line is this: the entire support staff for Paint.NET are volunteers who have real-world jobs that don't involve Paint.NET. We don't get paid anything, except Rick and the plugin authors who ask for donations. We barely have enough time to adequately support the current version of Paint.NET - if we officially released prior versions, we'd have even less time than we do right now.
Trust me, nobody is getting rich off the decision to only support 4.0. That said, if you'd like to make a huge donation, I'm sure we could make some sort of arrangement. I accept large amounts of bitcoin...
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Whoops, fixed.
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And yes there was a beta. A very long beta. Please don't say things like that unless you've actually looked to see whether such an activity took place.
By "very long beta", Rick is talking about a public beta that ran around nine months. Paint.NET 4 has been in production over five times longer than that, and there were many people involved in the testing of that product in those five years.
Rick (the developer) reads nearly every post on this board.
Settings icon in the top-right.
Mouse wheel zoom as default?
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Option is not Convention.