Mr Frojo

Just browse the tutorial section for something that looks cool. Birthday cards vary in design, so theres not going to be a "make a perfect birthday card" tutorial. Just look for ones on how to make backgrounds you think look cool, and some cool font on dafont.

There is a text tool on the toolbar. Its icon looks like this: Just click that, click where you want text, and start typing.

I dont see why this is in this section, seeing how its not related to PdN. This seems like something that should be in the overflow.

Im behind with a couple plugins. This will help me get up to date faster

Wow, this has finnally been made a tutorial? Will the pyro-based sig theme ever end? starts recreating pyros new sig to get ahead of the rest

Yea, I requested this a long time ago. I hope to see this in a future version, because it makes working with larger images a lot easier. I suggested something like GIMPs fullscreen mode, where you can access all your effects and all that other stuff by right-clicking

Wow thats a lot of plugins. This will save people who dont already have them all a TON of time. Downloading each plugin on the forums individually takes a long time. I wish everyone could do this.

Now, to change the subject of the clearly ripped off version of paint.net, heres another thing from cnet: http://www.download.com/Digital-Photogr ... =cnetfd.mt 5th in most popular isnt bad. Still behind PS and PSP though, but ahead of most the other free graphics editors

This was canceled (im pretty sure) due to the fact that fewer and fewer users dont have the .net frameworks. It comes with most new computers and vista as well.

Lol. That family guy episode was funny. It could use a transparent background though. Also, some feathering and it would be perfect.

Looks nice zookey. It looked kinda like the sublime logo for a second though

If you want to make animations, read this: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2492&start=0 But remember, paint.net is an image editor, not an animator

You can also try using Boltbaits and Illnabs gradient plugin. Select the letters you want, then select the same color for the primary and secondary colors (It cannot be black, white, or gray. Also, if you click on the more button on the colors window on the bottom right, Under RGB, you want one of those values to be at or around 255.) Then, use the gradient plugin and check the bubble that says HSV long. That will create a rainbow effect.

I havnt been around too much recently. Ill still pop in from time to time though.

Read the second post in the link that bob posted. That seems to help a ton of issues.

jacksbf123, dont yell. Read the rules. KingofTwilght, if you mean the water in jackspf123's post, thats a plugin. Reflection water

Plugins add more features to paint.net. An example of a something that adds an additional feature is shape3D. With that, you can turn your image into a realistic 3D shape. Other plugins are enhanced versions of features already in paint.net. An example of that is curves+, which is a much more powerful version of curves. Just browse the plugin section and try some of the stuff. Heres you you install plugins And it would be impossible to create a plugin that cuts out an image perfectly for you.

This has been talked about before. I forget the exact reason, but simply put, this wont be done. Too much work.

Im still yet to try Alpha 2, but I liked all the new things in Alpha 1. Mostly how a plugin crashing wont result in pdn crashing. Its not uncommon for a plugin to crash on me, and it seemed like everytime they did crash, it was with something I was working on for a long time and still yet to take a 2 second break to save it. Well I was doing the same thing a little while ago. This was about 30 minutes after creating a new image, and it still wasnt saved. Then, a plugin crashed and I was able to continue working with it. Btw, im not a fan of the photoshop'ish layout, but im sure Ill get used to it. Also, it will make any photoshop work I might do in the future a bit easier.

After looking at what is new, theres one thing I dont like. The fact that median is in the noise submenu. Id much rather have it in the blurs. I hated that in photoshop because after all my experience with paint.net, I just couldnt get used to it. Maybe now that paint.net switched, maybe I will. It just seems to make more sence in the blurs submenu though. Other than that the features look great. Im downloading now and checking this out. Ive waited for this version for a while.

Thanks a ton. I was trying to finish it but I had to work. Now maybe I have time. Seconds BB00's idea. Right now it seems like if you dont get all the points possible to begin with, you wont have a chance to win.

^Where did you get lost? This looks like it would work with modern versions, especcialy seeing how no versions have been a rearangement of the tools/effects.

^Nice! I like the shine on it. The edges seem nice and smooth, and the water looks really great. Great colors as well. I see nothing wrong with it.

Ok, so it says that I wont get points if the things are stock images and not made by me, but if I make something in blender, it would be counted as a stock image although it was made by me. Would I get points or not? And what if its only partialy made in blender/stock image and the rest done in pdn? Would I get points for that?

Add "photoshop alternative" to that list as well