pyrochild

your vista-fied sigs just keep getting better and better.

*squish*

haha those crazy violent insane koreans... 8)

What exactly do you mean by "support"? Do you mean as in a screensaver that is able to display pictures created in PdN? If that's the case, then you can just save the images as PNG, JPG, BMP, or GIF format and it should work in any pictures screensaver out there...

gaussian blur it at 1px?

heres what i did. create a new layer on top of the face, select the part of her cheek that you want to be sparkly, fill it with black (on the new layer only) and then add noise with 0 color saturation and very low intensity, then use curves or curves+ to increase the luminosity so the spots are bright, then set the blending mode for the new layer to "screen." make any other adjustments you want... maybe try glow at the end...

gif as a file format is rather limited in some ways. it only supports a palette of 256 colors. or if your image is an animation, each frame can have its own unique palette. but if you convert an image which has more than 256 colors to a gif, it has to do what is called dithering, which is why it gets that "weird" look. Dithering is basically reducing the number of colors and approximating each one in a pattern. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gif http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither#Dig ... processing

@usedHONDA: I still haven't had a chance to get started with the histogram. Just too much homework, and finals coming up, and teachers piling on projects like crazy. You know the drill. Bah.

Great minds think alike :wink: or one of you is a stalker... :shock:

try scrolling up and down on cj's! it's really trippy! haha...

@Madjik: How did you make #6? Me likesss!

Yayy!

you have to make a new gif using unfreez, and set the frame delay values higher.

I agree with barkbark. PLease PLEASE slow down the animation a bit so that it doesnt give someone a seizure.

no shrugging! it's rude!

I almost hate to ask this, but are you extracting the DLL from the ZIP?

so BoltBait, you take the text plugin, and I'll work on the configgable ellipses? allright!

Not trying to be argumentative, but (s)he didn't ask someone to make a plugin that replaces the tools. Just something that does something similar, but better, which can be done.

A challenge? I accept! But homework first

Thank you Rick. and now... *hack hack hack*

if y'all really want this to be stickied, i would suggest PMing Rick, as I doubt he bothers to read every post in this thread.

That's easy to implement, actually. I'm talking about a shortcut key that would open my effect's dialog from the main pdn form. (Like Ctrl+L opens the Levels dialog)

In the Paint.NET source, I noticed that there used to be (or at least it looks like there used to be) the ability to make Adjustment Effect plugins have shortcut keys. Just wondering why this was and if there's any chance of it making a comeback in a future version of Paint.NET. Thanks! Pyro.

Nope. Not without bundling my plugin with a new version of paintdotnet.exe, as all of the adjustments' shortcut keys are hard-coded into that. Looking through the source code (which I still have yet to do thoroughly) it looks like there was once a way to do this, judging by some of the comments and Effect constructor overloads. /// The shortcut key is only honored for effects with the [EffectCategory(EffectCategory.Adjustment)] attribute. My plugin is flagged as an adjustment (hence its appearance in the Adjustments menu) but later in the source: [Obsolete("This property is obsolete. There is no replacement.")] public Keys ShortcutKeys{...} If anyone knows of a way to add shortcut keys, please tell! edit: replacing the bundled curves adjustment with mine and then redistributing a new PaintDotNet.Effects.dll is also an option, but it still seems rather drastic.

This plugin shows up in the Adjustments menu, not the normal Effects menu. It's right under the regular Curves adjustment and has a similar icon, so I guess I can see how it'd be easy to miss.