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Also, don't forget our very own Image Hospital, where you can take your ideas to be expanded upon, 'healed' if required. As well, there are the various sub-sections - 'umbrellas' - dedicated to specific areas of design where you can gain more specialist help. Good luck, Liiland!

Greetings ken_dot_pistol. I'll try to answer you in order: 1) this is something I cannot speak for, this is entirely at the fancy of a plugin author. Who knows but God when more plugins along those lines will come about. The request is out in the open now, all you can do is wait. 2) Have you given Toli's Engrave/Emboss plugin a whirl. It might turn out to be what you're looking for. 3) It is highly unlikely you will see any sort of EXIF editor in Paint.NET within the current 3.xx branch. The notion has been batted around once or twice already. If chances are fortunate, you might find something like this in the 4.xx series sometime, a version slated to release next year at the earliest. I hope some of this helps.

Thank you for your suggestion, jenle. May I ask that you repost it in the Custom Brushes topic, please? Just so that other users who read that topic can be privy to this insightful alternative to creating brushes. Many thanks!

To add to David's response, there are actually a few RAW format plugins you can choose from. If the first one you come across doesn't read the RAW format you want, don't be despondent, chances are another will. Good luck!

Necroposting galore. Three months is the limit before the topic is classified as 'dead', it has been eight. Thank you for your input, nabilalk, but don't forget the Rules (in this case, [rule=11]Rule 11[/rule]). You're more than welcome to return and post again . Topic locked

Hello bformhals. The only way to change the background of an animated GIF in Paint.NET is to change said background for each frame individually. As you know, an animation is made up of multiple frames sequenced into the one file. You will have to dismantle it, edit each one, save each frame, then reconstruct it. Paint.NET will only be able to edit each frame for you, it cannot break it apart nor assemble it again - this is not an animation program. There are other, small, free applications designed to dismantle and reassemble GIFs. For example GIFWorks.com will break apart the animation into its components (File dropdown > Open Image; then Optimise dropdown > Spilt into Frames), and UnFREEz to assemble the edited files. Hope this helps you.

[rule=2]Do remember to post in the correct section[/rule]. You will notice that you are posting in a section called 'Plugins - Publishing Only'. The 'publishing' refers to publishing completed tutorials, not questions. For that, you need to post in the General Discussion & Questions section - where this will now be moved to. Also, your topic title breaks [rule=6]Rule 6[/rule] which explains that topic titles must be descriptive. This in order for both the right user to see your problem and help more efficiently, and more importantly, for a clean and organised Forum; imagine if the Forum was littered with 'help!' and 'request!!!!'. Madness it would be. Utter lunacy. You're still online, so quickly! Edit your title before someone else notices!

Two things: 1) you're posting in a section entitled 'Tutorials+ - Publishing ONLY!'. The 'publishing' refers to publishing completed tutorials, not questions. For that, you need to post in the General Discussion & Questions section - where this will now be moved to. 2) Have you tried the Layers menu > Rotate / Zoom? If you haven't, you should, you can define degrees of rotation from there. Moved to General Discussion & Questions

It looks as though you are right, David. After a quick preview myself, it appears you are saving the image as an 8-bit PNG at maximum dithering level (if we take into account no pre-save editing, such as manually adding dithering). For best results, David is once again correct: use a higher bit-depth. The general rule-of-thumb is that if an image will need to display transparent parts, use 32-bit as this can save the alpha value data. If it does not need to display any transparency, then 24-bit will be all fine and dandy for your image (it doesn't loose any quality whilst keeping file size as low as possible). EDIT: oh, hello again, D.Darknovaxp. You see? I said I wouldn't burn you.

Only if you remember to tick the Maintain aspect ratio checkbox when resizing. There's nothing worse than a disproportionate avatar .Unless your current avatar is the product of the above request, in which case: well done!

A perfect answer from oma. Now the moderating bit... Your topic title breaks [rule=6]Rule 6[/rule] which explains that topic titles must be descriptive. This in order for both the right user to see your problem and help more efficiently, and more importantly, for a clean and organised Forum; imagine if the Forum was littered with 'help!' and 'first time....'. Madness it would be. Utter lunacy. Because of this, I'm going to lock your topic. This doesn't stop you from posting again, in fact, we'd be more than happy to extend the hand of help when you need it . Topic locked

We also have to take into consideration members with slower Internet connections. You would not appreciate it - in particular the Pictorium/Tutorials section - if you had to wait twice as long because someone/-people had a signature of epic proportions.

You can do this by expanding the Colors window via the More button, then manipulating the Transparency - Alpha slider at the bottom of the window for the white colour only. You'll want the figure to read '0' for it to be fully transparent.

Moved to Troubleshooting & Bug Reports

Hello frogostacat. Don't forget to use search next time for your answer, as it might well be quicker than asking and waiting for a reply. There are two utilities available to you: the Forum search and Paint.NET's Custom Search Engine. Per the Rules (#1 in this particular case), I will have to lock your topic. This doesn't stop you from posting again, in fact, we'd be more than happy to extend the hand of help when you need it. Topic locked

Ah yes, I see now. Even still, that changes not the fact that the requirement to have Inpaint installed to take advantage of this brilliant feature is little more than overloading for the average user, especially if installing it has a monetary downside. It's all well and good the OP possibly having the full, paid-for version, even the odd, other user, but for the general mass of Paint.NET users, this is extremely limiting. EDIT: having downloaded the application in question, there doesn't appear to be a time limit for the trial version, therefore it is as bad as I'm making out above. However, my point still stands.

If one already has Inpaint installed, would the plugin not be redundant? You would simple use Inpaint.I think it would be great to have that 'link' between Paint.NET and Inpaint and I'm all up for keeping as many editing tasks within the one program, but that would be something else someone would have to install to use Paint.NET, if they want to use PDN for this effect. Personally, I see too much of a hassle on your/our end if the user already has Inpaint installed. On the other hand, if you were to create a plugin that accomplished the same result without the need for Inpaint preinstalled, that would fantastic.

Perhaps this is what's going wrong. You do not open the DLL as you would like any conventional file, you extract the contents of the ZIP into the FileTypes directory, found (by default) here: C:\Program Files\Paint.NET\FileTypes. You then restart Paint.NET where you will then find OptiPNG in Save's file type drop-down menu.

Hello mathyu. At the moment, there is no way you can have the Pencil cursor (or similar) show whilst using the Paintbrush, nor have Paintbrush's own icon showing when drawing. If you use the Paintbrush, you will have to make do with the cross-hairs. Also, as you have found out, there is no way to adjust the width of the Pencil tool: one pixel width is the maximum. Saying that, the Paintbrush does have adjustable width, and you can make it the act of drawing look like the Pencil tool with the anti-aliasing turned off ( :AntiAliasingOn: > :AntiAliasingOff: ) to give it the 'jaggered' appearance. Other than that, there is nothing you can do as far as the cursor is concerned. Sorry. On a final note, you asked for suggestions. I would have suggested Windows Paint (the standard Windows drawing package), but the Pencil tool of Paint is the same as ours, as in, it does not have a variable width as its Paintbrush does - which, too, uses a cross-hair cursor. The GIMP gives you adjustable width for its Pencil tool, however, I would suggest against GIMP for your purposes because of its overly 'complex' nature. I will not stop you from taking a gander at it, though. All I can say now is: 'good luck' .

If you are looking for a 'quintessential' pack, then you find the plugins/packs stuck to the Plugins Forum right up your alley. Although with this you could miss out on a few effects that are not pinned, yet could be quite essential to you work. Therefore, I suggest you take the time to look through all the plugins first and see what takes your fancy for the type of work you undertake. This way you don't have to download everything - if that is what you're trying to avoid - but you do download the necessary plugins. With the plugin packs, once unzipped, you can pick and choose which ones you want to install.

It is for replying to topics. You just aren't to create new topics unless it's publishing a new plugin. You'll be fine to post in the Sparkles topic. Good luck.

I think it looks great. I would like to offer a suggestion, though, to have the photo look less like it has been halved and flipped: remove some of the features that are duplicated on both sides. A house such as this probably wouldn't have the exact same on both sides. To illustrate: [Click for full size.] - Having utility boxes on both sides might be unlikely; - reflections mirrored on both sides; - two flag poles equal in distance from the house; - bushes and other shrubbery equal at either side; nature is not symmetrical. Also, as you can see from the labelled illustration, I haven't highlighted everything just on one side, you might want to alternate which side features are removed so it doesn't look artificial. Just a suggestion. It's a bit of a bug-bear of mine when people mirror like this, because they usually end up really well (as with this one) but fall flat on their face because items that wouldn't normally be mirrored, are.

Indeed there is: F5 - toggles visibility of the Tools window; F6 - the History window; F7 - the Layers window; F8 - the Colors window. You can review these commands at any time through the Window menu. You can review the full range of keyboard shortcuts via the Help document, found through pressing F1 whilst in Paint.NET: http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/en/K ... mands.html However, there is no command to hide all the windows in one fell swoop. Unless you run your finger over F5-8 quickly and with adequate pressure, that is . This helps?

Yes, in that circumstance you can do that without loss of clarity. The import is smaller in dimension to the destination canvas (therefore will fit), and the two are of the same resolution. That will be perfectly safe.As you know, stretching anything out of proportion will lose it clarity, it doesn't what DPI or size it is. Yes, as long as the DPI between the two are the same, you'll be fine.----- I don't have a copy of Paint.NET at hand at the moment, so I can't do any testing. I am sure that any copying/pasting will change the DPI of the import to the destination canvas, so as long as that destination is the same as the import, all will be well and fine, and you can print happily ever after. Does this help clear things up for you?

Saving as a PNG will retain the DPI of the image. But whether you copy and paste or import from file, the final canvas will have to be 300 DPI before saving it, otherwise it will remain at its original resolution. Because we all know what happens when we upsize at the last minute! Say your final-piece canvas is the default resolution of 96 DPI and your section at 300 DPI. You can import or copy across the 300 DPI image but the canvas will still remain at the 96 DPI, because Paint.NET does not know you want to the whole thing at 300, it will assume you're intention is to import a 300 to 96. To round it off: have your canvas at a resolution of 300 DPI from the onset, before any transferring. That way, it will cut out any mess.