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I am assuming that this will work with the VS2005 express addition (which supposedly is free?) I will have to download and try, but thanks for this. has anyone considered doing a template for wxdev c++? Thanks Sage

Thank you so much Illnab, I am addicted to using this plugin for some of my effects... Sage

I have a program that I use for sheet music, sometimes I hard write my music out. I can get the gist of it all to scan and then play back what I have written. Although, I do of course, have to make some adjustments. My issue is that, this program only takes black and white tiff images. When I turn to black and white, and then save as tiff, my program says that it's still a color image. Is there any possible way to make PDN save to a proper grayscale or b/w so that I can use it with these programs? Thanks in advance. Sage

if you look at the "popular requests" post, you will see that brushes are not yet implimented, but that in the future it might be in there.

1. the plus button, if the tutorial wanted you to duplicate the layer, it would (should) have said so. Not sure yet about the rest, BUT... you can ask questions about a tutorial in the thread for that tutorial, this keeps things nice and neat... Sage

you can save as whatever you want. when you click "save as"... there is a box at the bottom of the save wizard which says "paint.ne PDN"... you can click in that to expand to all of your different choices... JUST like any other program ever created.

I had this same question when I first started and someone answered for me, I forget who. They sent me to irfanview (I think that's how it's spelled), which did what I wanted it to do, however, it's not helpful if you are working with PDN effects and want to put those effects on each one.

Graco, if you can supply the photo or image which you are trying to remove the background to it would help. Sometimes it is difficult if there are a lot of colors in the background image. Sometimes, you're just going to have to do the erasing by hand. upload your image at photobucket or image shack.... then put the direct address of the image (not the image page but the image itself), on this board between. [img*] and [/img*] (remove the asterixes). This way we can help you a little bit better. Sage

apparently, rotoscoping is not actually done with software. They make film then they recolor each frame, by tracing over it. Of course, you can come close to the effect using the oil painting tools, toon tools, cutout, and the line tools. Sage

Rory, I would go with pictures of people to "perfect" the effect. It'll be way easier for you to see how well the effect works, because you know how a person's face should work once the effect is added. Sage

CMD, 8 million thumbs up to that one. I know I answer a lot of questions on here, but, I still am pretty new to doing graphics, (other than 3d ones that is), so, really, this is a new trick to me. I had made a rainbow before by doing a bunch of boxes and then blur, but, this one is way better as you really get to control the size of each step. Thanks to all who have answered, these are really helpful. Sage

Thanks Rick, Note to self... start looking in the status bar... You can file this under the "dumb question" folder... :-) Thanks again.

I have a problem with gradiants.. I am on a laptop with a sensor bad as a mouse, so, even the slightest of movements causes my gradient to move. How do I maintain a straight up and down or left and right line with my gradiant. Is there a way to lock it in place? Also, has anyone yet created a way to make multiple colors within the same gradient? If not, will it ever be created? Thanks Sage

Download and reinstall PDN.. See if that works. Something might be messed up with your system. Also, is it possible that some other program is taking over your system, making it impossible for your programs to work properly. Sage

The reason why a subject line wouldn't be ok by the mods is if you are too general with it. and with great reason. It's hard to keep track of all those posts with subject lines that say "Help me"... then you get like 5 of them with the same subject, and no one can remember which one it was that they posted to. Plus no one is just going to pick your post because you are you, the deal is there are rules, it's a sticky, which says "read this, YOU, yes YOU." located http://paintdotnet.12.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=3446 with all of the rules of the board so that everyone is playing nice. :-) Like you, I am a web programmer, and fairly new to graphics, however, I have gotten to a point where I can function with Paint.net (PDN). The short answer to your glass effect gradient question is yes..... However.... the effect will not be as good as if you do each one by hand. Your thinking like sort of a "lense" type thing. And, it can be done, sort of. Just make a gradiant which looks like a tube, using only white to grey, or even, white to black, and then set it's transparency to something like 103 percent (or lower, or higher to your heart's content). You HAVE to save a PNG, as GIF doesn't deal well with semitransparent images. Your fall back is that, those using IE6 or lower, can not see the transparency at all with PNG. Your best bet is to create new graphics for each color that you want. Or perhaps, create several different buttons 1 of each of the 7 colors of the rainbow, and just keep them in stock. When in doubt, try it out. Sage EDIT::::: What? Z index? Where is that? Never seen it on PDN but deal with it all the time in 3d.

The idea of not downloading the help file with the installer is pretty cool. Having a fully online help system, allows for updates and changes to arrata. I do however see an issue with that (on my end). I do a lot of traveling, and a lot of work outside of my home. I do not always have access to the net, but, I do use the help system whenever I need it. Would there be a possibility of creating, perhaps a pdf, or chm version of the help system? This way we could choose to download it or to simply connect to the net? This would be helpful. All the advancements look great. Thanks

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Verac, yeah, I figured that way out, way easy. Just was wondering if there was an easier way to do it. Extra, thanks for the spell check... :-) Now I know exactly what I am looking for. Maybe eventually this can be added to PDN. thanks again.

Hi all, I was wondering, I think (am not sure), that the term I am looking for is "Kerning"? I would like to be able to control the space between each character in my text when it is typed, without having to actually do manual movement of each character. I believe it is called kerning but am not sure. Is this possible to do in PDN, if so, how, if not, can we get it in a future release? Thanks Sage

well, I would assume that there is no rule agains using Paint.net for creating your company logo, making your print advertising, and so forth.. Right? I mean, technically, I have been using it to work on images for my company website, which will be an e-commerce site once it's through. So, I guess I should make sure that the media I personally create with Paint.net is ok for me to use in any way that I see fit... right? Sage

Luka, Honda was joking with the "I invented this", as one of the earlier post in this thread said "I'm surprise honda didn't say he invented this"... I figured it would be a .exe, I have all sorts of ebooking tools too. But yeah, I can host some on my site so that the download will take place from there, but, if you put it up on a few different sites, it will be a great way to keep people's bandwidth usage for the download down to a minimum. I have a lot of bw, except those months when spammers choke me out. Anyway, good stuff. Later

I invented the internets... LOL.. Actually though, If you want to split up some bandwidth, you might ask a few people to a host a copy. I would be willing to host a copy on one or ten of my sites if need be. Sage

Since you "in the process of TAKING pictures" for your website. You should try making sure that the pictures you are taking are all in front of a fairly solid colored wall. If you are wearing light colored clothes, and are light skineed, a dark wall is best, if the reverse is true, a white wall would be best. Better yet, get a bright green cloth and hang it up on the wall and then take pictures of the people and items in front of it. Just make sure that no one is wearing green. I have done this plenty a time, it has saved a lot of time and energy when it came to the fixing of the image. Sage

Actually, this is a VERY good idea. If you are making a tutorial ebook, and including the images used (so as they aren't still linked to the website), this would actually keep my bandwidth down some. I have had to up my bandwidth on my site already and the month isn't half way over yet. I totally would allow permission for any of my tutorials to be added. I have only written one so far, and still need to add some edits to it when I get time. Sage

Here's a tip on how to create specific aspect ratios. This is just a work around, until (if ever) this feature gets added. Create a new image of the size that you want (4:3 or whatever).. CTRL+A (select all) Copy. In the image you are working on, paste into new layer. Your selection now shows up in white, with the rest of the image transparent (to maintain the size of the main image). Now, you can always select the white box, and then move to the layer you wish to work in. Shift and drage your selection to grow or shrink it and maintain the aspect ratio. It's a work around, but it works. Sage