Myrddin
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There's no ruling against that; only in the Pictorium must you use offsite hosting.Also, you're doing you're pictures wrong. You're meant to upload them to either Imageshack or Photobucket. If you need a tutorial, look here.threelui, you could try this tutorial if by what you mean thicker, you mean deeper (like in your large example image): viewtopic.php?f=15&t=23397
If you do mean thicker, as in wider and broader, then xRyan's suggestion is a good one to follow.
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Hello Jonnasemmons.
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'll need to edit your topic title to be in-tune with your request.
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No, sorry. If you want it to erase to white, then use the Paintbrush with a white colour. The only way.
As for customisable shortcuts, that's also a 'no'. It has been suggested before, and Rick Brewster, the lead developer, doesn't wish to have Paint.NET too confusing for newer users with numerous and endless configurations*. Not to mention the complication of overlapping shortcuts because of improper configuring.
*I cannot find the exact quote from him, rather a comment made by david.atwell, of which Rick had no complaints against.
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Greetings chasbeen.
You can read this excellent tutorial by Crazy Man Dan on the Alpha Mask Import Plugin here: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5276
It may take a few reads to truly grasp the concept, but once you have, alpha masking can be an invaluable tool in photo-manipulation, yielding fantastic results.
EDIT: beaten by pipp92.
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A 1px width line you say? If they are to be straight lines with no curvature, then maybe switching from anti-alias ( :AntiAliasingOn: ) to alias ( :AntiAliasingOff: ) rendering would solve the problem. You can find this option at the top next to the Fill options.
When at this brush width, anti-aliasing has a tendency to apply itself to the edges of straightened lines, which can be annoying for someone who wishes for crisp lines.
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You could also download speech balloon fonts from such resource centres as dafont.com, or download clip-art-like images from the Interweb and resize as required in Paint.NET. Additionally, you might want to try out sabrown's Custom Brush Plugin, which might do the trick for you as well.
These may be better options for you if you're not feeling too comfortable with drawing them yourself.
EDIT: beaten by the author...
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Check that the colour you're using has an alpha value of 255, full opacity. It sounds as though your colour is slightly transparent, hence the need to reiterate the draw to solidify it.
You can access the fine-tuning of your colours via the More button located on your Colour window.
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Brilliant, Kat! Screenshots always help as it's pointed out your very minor error...
There we go. Remeber what sabrown100 wrote earlier?Or.... is the only mistake i made that I tried to create the gradient on an otherwise empty layer??
The only transparency (the alpha) value of the layer present is: nothing, absolute 0. Transparency Mode will not work on a transparent part of the image, which here is everything.Transparency mode will draw a gradient regulating the transparency of the image, colour mode will draw a traditional colour gradient using the primary and secondary colours. To change the mode, click :AllColorChannels: or :AlphaChannel: .If you want to fade one image out, you'll have to do it on the grey layer, or a layer with an image. If, however, you want a regular gradient, the again do as sabrown said, switch to Colour Mode by clicking the icon.
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Yes, you're more than welcomed to ask again here, Kat.
Good luck!
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Not on our Popular Feature Request list it isn't...I believe is also in Popular Feature Requests.
.sabrown is otherwise perfectly correct in that it has been suggested before, and Rick Brewster, the lead developer, doesn't wish to have Paint.NET too confusing for newer users with numerous and endless configurations*. Not to mention the complication of overlapping shortcuts because of improper configuring.
*I cannot find the exact quote from him, rather a comment made by david.atwell, of which Rick had no complaints against.
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Ah, right, I must have missed this in your first post. The way it sounded, you were wondering to what the sign meant, not that it was causing a problem for you.My problem was: it was there right from the moment I started typing, and when finished, I could not really highlight my text, as I couldn't use the mouse in order to mark the text I wanted to alter.When that arrowhead cross control is present, you can still highlight your text as if it were Microsoft Word, it's when you've finalised your text (like -Expiration- said, by the Esc. key) that you can't highlight your text again. Paint.NET currently does not allow the re-editing of text.
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Hello Charles Fleming.
As an alternative method to iKid's, I would go about this in the following way:
- with a high tolerance (around 69%, nothing above otherwise 'bleeding' occurs), fill in the outline of Kentucky with the colour black;
- - if 'bleeding' does happen, and the selection escapes outwards and beyond the outline, then plug the leak with the Pencil tool or Paintbrush;
- save this new filled-outline as a PNG file, flattened if it has layers. This will become our alpha mask.
- using the Alpha Mask import plugin (found here) on the photograph of the Kentucky River, location the mask we just created through the Browse button;
- adjust the checkboxes if/where appropriate - you may need to reverse the mask.
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You will notice that the black areas of the mask removed its corresponding area on the photograph, whilst the white area kept its corresponding areas. This is ultimately reversed if you reverse the mask in-plugin.
For a brief outlook or a more in depth look, check out this tutorial, created by Crazy Man Dan, which explains the principles of alpha masking: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5276
You can try other methods for this, but I find that an alpha mask retains any anti-aliasing that comes with the created mask, which can be the smoothest of lines if done correctly.
Does this help?
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Hello there, Kat.
Both your primary and secondary colour have to have an alpha value above 0, or, at least, at a value whereby you can notice the colour. If either colour has a value of 0, fully transparent, the Transparency mode will not work correctly.Whenever I tried to draw the line for the [Transparency Mode] gradient, nothing happened EXCEPT: the 2 dots (beginning and end of line) were flashing.sabrown100 explains the tool quite nicely. Also, check out the Help file on the tool: http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/en/GradientTool.html
A screenshot would help clarify this. At the moment, I'm thinking you have the Rectangle/Ellipse Select tool, any of the shape tools, or one of the brush tools (Brush, Clone Stamp) open with a small brush width, therefore only appearing as a cross shape.I also realized that the mouse looks like a big + sign when hovering over the picture or doing something on a layer. Guess this also wasn't there before.
A screenshot would help though.
If I'm thinking correctly, that symbol, when clicked on and dragged, can move the active-state of text across the canvas (as in, when the text can still be edited). You can read more on this control of the Text tool here, as part of the help file: http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/en/TextTool.htmlAnd thirdly, when writing text on a layer, right next to the text there is this sign:
(just without the triangle right next to it, it's this arrowed cross put into a rectangle. I think I also haven't seen this one before.The Help documentation might help you again in the future, so don't forget to check them out. They can be found through Help > Help Topics or by pressing F1 whilst in Paint.NET.
Does any of this answer you?
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Do remember to post in the correct section. You have a technical issue to troubleshoot, so the Troubleshooting & Bug Reports section would be the most logical place to post.
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Nay, you save all participants from the might of the Ban Hammer!Do I win a cookie?I'll see what I can do for the cookie. But shhh, tell no-one.
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Wacom + time = cool handwriting + wrist ache.Myrddin - awesome writing!! How did you draw like that? - Where it fades off, like really neat brush strokes - it looks really great!If nobody has caught my edit on the submission:
If nobody gets the irony of my design, I'll ban all participants for 30 minutes.Thanks for the compliment, 007 Nab!
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As you have no doubt gathered, Paint.NET's native format is only readable by Paint.NET itself, therefore I would suggest the following (touched on by the previous posters).
Use a file host to host a ZIP folder containing the PDN if it is layered and you want an intact file at the end of it all. If it is a singular-layered file, you would be better off saving in a more common format, such as PNG, then investing some time in creating a Photobucket account and uploading it there.
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Bear witness to the handsomeness of my handwriting...!
No stock imagery nor fonts, all the work of my own hand.
EDIT: if nobody gets the irony of my design, I'll ban all participants for 30 minutes.
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Pressing F1 whilst in Paint.NET will direct you to the Help Files. Use them, they can be helpful.
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Do remember to post in the right section. You have a technical issue to troubleshoot, so the Troubleshooting & Bug Reports section would be the most logical place to post.
Also, mind your topic titles: [rule=6][click to find out why][/rule]
As well, this teeters on the fence of non-Paint.NET technical support, so be careful how we answer.
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Topic title edited... this once
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Your love for us might suddenly turn with my locking of your topic...
According to the Rules, your topic title breaks #6 as it gives absolutely no definition to what you're asking for. A good topic title clearly indicates to users what you're enquiring after and a user who is more attuned to the request is more likely to help out. 'Question+suggestion' doesn't tell us anything about the question or suggestion.
Imagine if the entire forum was littered with 'help!', 'suggestion!!!'. Ludicrous it would be, utter madness. And a pain to search for previous topics of interest.
But don't let this stop you from posting again, we're more than happy to help you out whenever, as you have seen. Just don't forget the Rules when next you post
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I would think yellow or blue because of photograph deterioration. The vintage style sponges off primarily from old photos, and with them being old comes also their degradation in yellow or blue hints. By and large due to the chemicals used for the production of the photograph.
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Also, if you're unsure of the keyboard shortcuts, you can find the Window's command in the Window menu, adjacent to your Effects menu.
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Your lines are perfect. You have to remember that your screen displays the image upon it as pixels, minute squares, so even with the smoothest of lines it will still look as though there is jittering when there is actually not. This is exposed further with small images where the lines are thinner.
If you were to submit that, it will be fine and dandy. Alternatively, you can spend the next few days sending yourself stern crazy trying to rectify the impossible
.I would, though, also suggest Inkscape. It handles line drawing far better, and with the resizing benefits of the vector format, be easier to work with if you require the image for larger sizes than the original drawing. You can also export the final product as a PNG.
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(just without the triangle right next to it, it's this arrowed cross put into a rectangle. I think I also haven't seen this one before.
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Using photoshop plugins
in Paint.NET Discussion and Questions
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You may find that many of the plugins on offer for Paint.NET indeed meet the purpose of some of Photoshop's plugins, some even said to exceed that the PS counterpart.
If you have a browse around and have a play with what's available, perhaps you won't feel as despondent for not being able to afford Photoshop's licence
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