cjmcguinness

Getting my one in early...i'll be busy for the rest of the week. Stock Images: Umbrella Friday 13th Movie Poster Salt Cellar Shoes Black Cat Laptop Computer Blue Screen of Death Dublin Night Scene Magpie Tarot Cards

I, for one, am hoping you find the time

@CMD Should there be a new rule added to SOTW regarding NOT posting placeholders? There's already one in SOTW #6: Not to mention that their current forum sig already breaks rule 1.

I too made a Kiosk Orb a while back, adapting the aforementioned Photoshop tut. I even started writing a PDN converted tutorial on how I made mine, but never finished it (it was turning into a bit of a novel!); so I am glad someone else had the patience to produce such a thorough and well explained tutorial. Great write-up and fantastic results. I can see this being used for a lot of avatars.

For more information on how to use the Magic Wand tool take a look at the section in the PDN help file; paying particular attention to the use of the Tolerance (you'll find it in the toolbar at the top of the screen). Lowering the tolerance will select less of the image. Additionally, I would also refer you to this tutorial on Cutting out images, the easy way. I use this method a lot.

I hereby do proclaim that the theme for SOTW #6 shall be ... Friday 13th Good luck to everyone!

I have another suggestion for SOTW#6 theme. With just over a week to go, how about a Friday 13th theme? Entries could be based on the popular series of slasher movies, or anything else related to this superstitious date. I would suggest starting this as of Friday 6th July, with the deadline for entries being Friday 13th July itself. Anyone want to second this suggestion?

Here's a visual of what spongey437 was referring to: Just move the slider until the filesize is as small as you need it. I've tried it at 50%, producing a filesize of 39.0 KB; with no real detectable loss of quality.

@NotArtsy Crop to selection is usually greyed out if you have nothing selected on your canvas. Make sure you are using the Ellipse Select tool and NOT the Ellipse tool . The Ellipse Select Tool highlights a section of the canvas, you will see a rotating dashed outline when an area is selected. If your Ellipse has a thick black border then you are most likely using the wrong tool (I know it can be confusing as they are both called Ellipse - but one is a Selection tool for highlighting an area of the canvas and the other is for drawing an Ellipse shape ) Once you have dragged your 400x400 ellipse selection try pressing [CTRL]+[sHIFT]+[X] keys together (this is the keyboard shortcut for crop to selection).

***UPDATE*** The Wikibook Tutorials page is progressing (slowly). It now has links to 60 of the (by my calculation) 465 active tutorials published on this forum. No rest for the wicked!

All you have to do post the image is put at the end (instead of ).

Absolutely, you're free to do with them what you will. Please post the final result, I'd be interested to see it. All the best. CJ

Paint_boy, here are some I had previously created... Green - size 40 Green - size 20 Blue - size 40 Blue size 20

It seems like no firm concensus is ever going to be reached and the forum is going to stay organized as it is. I have therefore decided to take a slightly different approach - the Paint.NET Wikibook. You may (or may not) be aware that usedHONDA started a Paint.NET Wikibook project a while back and, with his blessing, I have undertaken the task of compiling a tutorials index page. I have decided to stick roughly to the list of categories I suggested in the first post of this thread and I am in the process of posting links and information on as many of this forum's tutorials as I can. There are a few PDN tutorials that have been converted into specific Wikibook pages; but mainly the links in the Tutorial Index will be directly to their forum location. Over time this tutorial index may be expanded to include tags and possibly 'level of difficulty' ratings for each of the tutorials; but for now I am concentrating on compiling and categorizing the list.

~UPDATE~ New page Paint.NET Tutorials index The Paint.NET Wikibook now has a Tutorials index page where links to tutorials will be organized and categorized. The page is in it's infancy and will be constantly updated over the coming weeks to populate it.

In relation to the compositional Rule of Thirds, I actually published a tutorial on that very subject in this forum a while back (went pretty much unnoticed). So, for anyone who's interested in aesthetic photo composition, as well as checking out the wikipedia entry, take a look at this tut - Cropping Photographs - The Rule of Thirds

No, never quite got the hang of using the Alpha Mask. I simply cutout the image and feather. Perhaps I should practise using the Alpha Mask more often; might produce some even better results. Both your Portrait and Feather plugins are indespensible for photo manipulation. Just got a new digital camera and I am producing some fantastic results using both of them.

This is something I've done with a lot of pictures of my family members - turning them into what looks like a studio portrait, using BoltBaits fantastic Portrait plugin. I personally think that black and white (or mono) portraits look more professional. However, instead of the traditional greyscale b/w I prefer to use the Adjustments > Sepia instead.

This thread was dead and buried before I even joined the forum; I, for one, am glad it was resurrected.. I call this Paint.BLISS

As the winner of SOTW #5 does this mean I get to nominate a theme for SOTW #6? If so, there has been some interest (from Pyrochild & The_Lionhearted) in basing it on CMD's Jerbert character and I'm all for this, Therefore I propose SOTW #6 theme should be Jerbert Fun Facts Anyone have any other suggestions?

Wow! Seriously, thanks to all who voted for my entry; it's a real honour. Congrat's to all entrants the standard was excellent; I'm thrilled to have come out on top. So, on to SOTW #6?

As a Moderator you would have power of veto over all tutorials submitted by members; either placing them into one of the organised categories or banishing them to the pictorium or some other 'miscellaneous' thread, where many of them belong.

@Tillerman, As you are new to the forum I suggest you take some time to read through the rules, paying attention to rule 13. The maximum size for a signature is 500px wide / 150px tall. I'd advise that you amend your current signature before it is removed by one of the forum moderators.

I'd like to third the suggestion that SOTW #6 should be Jerbert Fun Facts. I'd love to have a go and see how many Jerbert fun facts we can all come up with. Of course, all subject to CMD giving the idea his blessing.

@Tillerman Welcome to the forum. I'm afraid you've missed the boat on this SOTW#5 competition. Entry submission ended last Friday, 22nd June. However, there will be another competition beginning very soon and if you check out SOTW Theme Discussion you can have some input into the next competition theme. Feel free to check out the submissions for SOTW #5, you can even vote for your favourite - voting is open to all forum members. Oh, and BTW, placeholders were frowned upon during this competition and I would advise that you do not put a placeholder in any future competition. Look forward to your submissions in future competitions. -CJ