[Share Your Custom Paint.NET Brushes]

I hope it is OK for me to post this here, I usually just lurk as I am no really creative enough to make anything worth posting. However I made this brush and have found it rather useful so I figured I would post it and hope others find it useful as well.

It is an eye brush, I use it as a stamp to make eyes a lot more quickly and easily than drawing them each time. I use the brush to make the eye on a new layer, then adjust the size and position, erase any part that would be covered by the eyelid, then use the color balance to change it to the color I want. Oh and I use the feather tool to blend it into the eye.

Here is an example of the size and color changes,

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r56/MoonStarRaven/Temp/Eyes.jpg?t=1208051714

Eye 2.png.zip

[Weird Save Quirk?]

Right Click > Refresh Thumbnail.

Works on folders , too.

I never noticed that option before. *slaps self in forehead* Thanks! that will be a lot easier.

[Weird Save Quirk?]

Actually, Tom noticed this a long time ago and filed a bug on it but we haven't fixed it. It's hasn't really been a high enough priority issue.

I think what's happening is that some software or devices prepare and embed a thumbnail into the image. Paint.NET simply preserves that thumbnail just like it does with any other generic EXIF metadata.

Before I figured out how to fix it I would have argued that its annoying enough to be top priority, however since it only takes a couple of extra steps to fix I can see why it would be low on the priority list. :wink:

Anyway, Thank you, that explanation makes a lot of sense. I was driving myself nuts trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. It's good to know its nothing I'm doing. But then I'm such a newbie that I'm still trying to figure out what half of the functions do. (Thanks in part to the plug in downloading spree. LOL)

Oh and sorry about posting in the wrong area. :oops:

[Weird Save Quirk?]

I was editing a bunch of pictures recently and when I went into my picture folder to look over the ones I'd completed. I noticed several of my pictures thumbnails looked like they did before I had edited them. Afraid that I hadn't saved my changes I clicked on them. The windows picture viewer showed them correctly with the changes. I refreshed the page, restarted my PC, opened and re-saved them. Yet the thumbnails continued to show no change... :?

After much trail and error I figured out that if I reopened the picture with PaintNet and saved it as a bitmap file, closed it, reopened it and then re-saved it as a JPEG file. That the thumbnail would then show the changes that had been made. :shock:

I have run into that several times since and for the life of me I can't figure out why it sometimes does that. If its something I'm doing or not doing. It's more annoying then troublesome as I know how to fix it. However I would sure like to know why its doing that.

Has anyone else come across this? Or know why or how that is happening?

[Colorizing effect?]

Thanks for all the tips!

[Colorizing effect?]

I was wondering if Paintnet had a recolor option. I'm not sure how to explain it. Another paint program I have has an option it calls Colorizing effects brush. You pick a color and using the paint brush you can change the colors on an area of a picture well keeping the light and dark areas intake.

For example: I used the colorize effects brush with red and then blue color selected on this picture.

Is there a way to do something similar with Paintnet?

Sorry if this is a really basic question, I'm new to this program.