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  1. In lieu of a licensed copy of Photoshop, I use Paint.NET for my general design brainfarts. I've used it for a few years now and only now have found something I dislike - a lack of word/text wrapping functionality.

    So I decided I'd pop in and even remembered my account details on the first go (woohoo! This never happens) and drop a request for this functionality, as much as I hate requesting things in general due to a patholo--moving on. My vision is thus:

    Step 1. Enable Word Wrapping (a button up here, assumedly). This would ideally have a dropdown also allowing you to change whether it wraps on whitespace only or mid-word with a hyphen.

    Step 2. Make a selection. If there is no selection, it wraps to the image border.

    Step 3. Type. When the text hits the right (or left, for right-aligned text, or exceeds the width of the selection/image for center-aligned) it will wrap at the appropriate point. When out of vertical space the text would merely be cut off as it is now.

    Bonus points: Make center-aligned text centered relative to the selection. Justified text would also be possible when there are given bounds, but who even uses that? Sheesh.

    As it is now, text is based only on an anchor point (and is rasterized only - no editable text is a bearable downside for the gigabyte of memory I save from what I last saw of Photoshop, but that's not saying I don't often want for it), having text based on selection bounds if a selection exists would be a very user-friendly way of making it all much more powerful. I know Paint.NET isn't a word processor but nicer text handling would be a big plus for those of us who use it for more design-oriented purposes. As noted, text being editable objects (I don't much like the 'text layer' thing, but I can't honestly think of a better way) would be cool too.

  2. While fiddling with this tutorial, I accidentally found a way to generate generic world maps. Unfortunately, I spent too much time fiddling with it so I have to go now.

    Clouds

    Clouds (Difference)

    Pencil Sketch at 3 size and 0 range.

    Then refine in whatever way you see fit.

  3. Down, has anyone told you your sig is sexy? :D

    01t.png

    I did a lot of extra effects. It's a link to the full thing btw (@500x500) and I messed with layer blending modes on it to get the right effect. There was one with screen, one with darken, one with reflect then one with glow. It accented the blue nicely.

  4. Mine, reduced to avatarish size and background transparent!

    BlackPlanet.png

    And a different one on a background. It's wallpaper size.

    Cliickee

    They're black and white because both came out in horrible shades whenever I changed hue/sat or curves so... meh. I call it Necromunda.

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