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Or you could spare him the time clicking through two dozen threads and just tell him that no, there isn't a smudge plugin and yes, it's on the popular feature requests list so chances are it'll be a standard feature in PDN in a future release.

My 5 minute Andy Warhol style doggy. Unfortunately the dog's a bit rough around the edges. Chosen colors could be a bit more vibrant as well. Might do a nicer one later.

I think one can come a long way with the features Paint.NET offers, but it's a bit of a stretch to say Paint.NET offers the same level of versatility as Photoshop. I do agree that many things you can do in Photoshop with the click of a button can be done in Paint.NET as well in a few additional steps. I'm looking around for Photoshoppey things that can be translated to Paint.NET by applying the tools it offers in creative ways.

Agreed. It's very useful and would definitely be a nice addition to Paint.NET Another thing Paint.NET seems to miss is a "paste as transparant (selection)" feature, where you can paste something from your clipboard and all pixels of a certain color (in Paint Shop Pro this is your selected background color) are fully transparant. Maybe I overlooked it or maybe there's another way of doing it, but it's a feature I often used in Paint Shop Pro.

Hi all, This is my first tutorial and I hope it's easy to understand, useful and not redundant. The goal is to create a drop of water. I'm making mine on a leaf, but I guess you could do this on other objects as well (maybe fruits or vegetables to give them that fresh look). The end result will be like this: The first step is to find a picture of the object you want to do, here's mine: Now, create a new layer and select it. I have named it "waterdrop". Use the ellipse select tool to make a circular or slightly ellipse shaped selection. Use the gradient tool to fill it with a black to white gradient. Set the blending mode of the waterdrop layer to "overlay" Create a new layer. I've named this layer "drop shadow". Select the waterdrop layer and use the magic wand (tolerance 0%) to select everything except for the gradient circle. Invert the selection. You now have selected the shape of the waterdrop. Select the drop shadow layer and fill your selection with black. Undo the selection and move the drop shadow layer a slight bit to the right and bottom. In the next picture you can sort of see how much I've moved it. Again, select the waterdrop layer and use the magic wand to select the shape of the drop like before. Select the drop shadow layer and fill your selection with a fully transparant color (on the color palette, click more and move the "transparancy - alpha" slider all the way to the left. Then in the menu select edit > fill selection). Undo the selection again and apply a Gaussian Blur effect to the drop shadow layer (I used a setting of 10px). Move the drop shadow layer slightly back to it's original position (only a tiny bit, to imply the effect of seeing the edge of the drop's shadow through itself. Finally, move your drop shadow layer under your waterdrop layer in the layers panel. As a final touch, create a new layer (named "highlight") and select it. Choose the Paintbrush tool (antialiasing enabled) and put a small white dot at the left top of the droplet to create the effect of a highlight. The end result (as shown before): Play around a bit with various settings and distances to get results to your tastes (slightly lowering the opacity of the waterdrop layer adds a touch of softness). Let me know what you think. Enjoy!

Hello everybody, I just registered here. Let me tell something about how I came to these forums. I was a long time not-so-very-legal Paint Shop Pro user and that's what I used at my work as well. Being a (web-)programmer I never had to do real complex stuff, but being able to make some minor adjustments to images with something better than MS Paint was a plus. Management then put their foot down on all illegal software in the company, so I had to get rid of Paint Shop Pro and only the designers got legal versions of Photoshop. I went through various pieces of software such as GIMP, which was bollocks (excuse the language), a trial version of Paint Shop Pro (I just could live without it) and something called Pierresoft ADesign, which was possibly even worse than GIMP. Then I read in a forum that someone used Paint.NET and I decided to check it and, and lo-and-behold, the skies suddenly cleared up and the sun started to shine. I could even swear I heard angels singing in the background. That was about 2 months or so ago and I love doing my little things with Paint.NET (and wow, it's even legal!) I needed to figure out how to save transparency in GIF files so I looked it up here in the forums. That's how I ended up here. Brilliant to find that Paint.NET supports plugins as well. Already downloaded a few. Found some great tutorials also (there was one about exploding planets which I love). Anyhoo, enough butt-kissing already. Kudos to those that are mentioned when I click "help, about". Seems to be a lot of knowledge in these forums which is great. So hello to you all :-)