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    Create a Waving Flag Using Displacement!

    in Distortions and Modifications

    Posted · Edited by Pixey

    Hi Saif and Welcome to the forum :) .

     

    I think you may have become confused with the instructions in Step 3.

     

    1.  After you draw the black and white lines on their own layer, you must then Gaussian Blur the layer and merge this layer with the grey #808080 layer.

     

    2.  You must then Copy and Paste the 'merged' layer into a new layer of it's own on top.

     

    3.  Uncheck all the other layers except the above new copy and pasted layer.  Go to Image and Flatten and save this file to desktop (or a folder) as a .png.

     

    4.  Now 'Undo' your Flatten which is done by clicking the bottom blue arrow :Undo:  in the History window.  Now everything returns as before.

     

    5.  Make sure the black lines layers are 'unchecked'.

     

    6.  Go to the Flag layer and then do Alpha Displacement and continue the tutorial.

     

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    (Also make sure the Displacement box is checked as well).

     

    I hope this helps you.  Good luck!

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    copied object enlarging when pasted

    in Paint.NET Discussion and Questions

    Posted

    Hi @cubsterky and Welcome to the forum :) .

     

    If you upload the image to PDN and Crop the whole image to Selection, which then sets the canvas size, then you can:

     

    1.  Use the lasso tool to outline the brown splat and go to Edit & Copy.

     

    2.  Make a new layer and Paste - it will then be exactly the same size as what you copied.

     

    3.  Also, when the lasso tool is still selected you can move the 'nubs' (with Shift held down on your computer which will keep the image constant) you can stretch it to

         any size you wish.

     

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    I hope this is of help.

     

    Animated Images

    in Plugin Developer's Central

    Posted

    Why am I getting such bad 'jaggies' on this animated carpet?  I used this Flag tutorial to bend the carpet - could this be because the image is now 'bent' ? I even tried to add solid lines to the carpet, but still had no luck :(  Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

     

     

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    [SOTW Discussion] Talk inside...

    in Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Pixey

    I'd also prefer that you stay, racerx. Your suggestions and knowledge are both valuable and useful in many ways. Chimay was doing the job a competition host is bound to do, but the rules of a contest shouldn't drive anyone away and I'm pretty sure they are not intended that way, so please don't take this to heart and stay. I second midora's suggestion that you may consider opening your own gallery.

     

     

    And I third that!

     

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    [SOTW Discussion] Talk inside...

    in Discussion

    Posted

    Oh NO @Racerx - please don't leave us .............. I know that @Chimay has to do his job (I live in dread that I will ever have to do this in the LBC section) but I'm sure he did this with heavy heart :(.

     

    Your entry is beautiful, so why don't you just 'un-animate it' and leave it there.  Please, please reconsider - you have been a great new, interesting, talented and fun new member and you can't go anywhere :) .

     

     

    Animated Images

    in Plugin Developer's Central

    Posted

    @Sasha - I made a tutorial here to get one started with this fun plugin.  As for the more intricate animations, what I did was open Midora's PDN file in paint.net and study his layers and times.  Yes, they are complex, but one then gets a general idea of how it works with the layers and also with the Sprites.

    Animated Images

    in Plugin Developer's Central

    Posted

    Wow!  That was a fast update Midora and thank you very much.  Although I've changed the background to a plain blue, I think that when I used a Gradient, it made matters worse.  I've noticed sometimes in making images in PDN that 'banding' occurs even then.  Sometimes it works and other times it doesn't.

     

    Anyway, I've now tweaked the Easter Bunny in your newer version and I think it looks much better.

     

    tweak6_zpsqvdvjryo.gif

     

    Have a Happy Easter and I hope you get to eat plenty of chocolate, as I am going to do!  As well as hot cross buns ;) .

    Pixey's Gallery ~ Merry Christmas 2023 everyone.

    in The Pictorium

    Posted · Edited by Pixey

    Thank you @Seerose :)

    Happy Easter everyone. I made this with Midora's Animate Plugin which is in 'development' and is so much fun to play with. 

     

    This is 100% PDN done with the Easter bunny/basket images I made last year.  Sadly the quality is not very sharp and I should have made it much smaller.

    tweak6_zpsqvdvjryo.gif

     

    Edit:  Midora is to help out with the 'banding' problem of the background.  When his update is available, I'll re-do it!  As I said ....... the Plugin is in development and I really should have used a transparent Background.

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