Fisherman's Friend

Well, if you mean those entries ("boxes"?) in the "Help/Language" menu, they will switch Paint.NET to the desired language if you select them... :arrow: http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/en/HelpMenu.html For example, if you select Korean, Paint.NET will restart and then it will be entirely in Korean... Same for Japanese or whatever.

I appreciate this fantastic plugin; especially when used with custom brushes you can achieve impressive results. However, I get massive performance issues when using it with larger pictures (above ~ 1000x800 px). It tooks a while until the smudge effect is rendered, what drastically reduces usability (you have to wait 1,2 seconds until you see what you've done). Also the CPU goes crazy. I never had such problems with GIMP. Smaller pictures (e.g. 640x480) work fine with the plugin. In my opinion it needs performance tweaks. (Indeed, I have no dual-core.) In my tests the missing undo-ability was also a problem. And maybe - maybe - future releases of this plugin should go in "Blurs". The reason for this idea is mainly the rather empty Blur menu compared with the overcrowded Distort menu. However, no one can doubt that this plugin is a great addition to Paint.NET and hopefully goes to the tool window for 4.xx. Thank you very much, I've been waiting for it ~

The Advanced Desaturate Effect is also nice - thank you very much.

After giving a closer look, I found some "new" mistakes in the German Translation. The following part affects the current version of Paint.NET. I don't know about v3.35 Beta, but I assume the translation was not changed at the moment. 1.) When you select the text tool and type, the info bar (at the bottom of the screen) gives you this: This is mostly correct, but the last word "ausblenden" has to be "auszublenden". The "zu"-part is required, as one not used to german can recognize by looking on "zu verschieben", "zu (de-)aktivieren". This is the text string in English: 2.) Well, the second part is a bit hard to understand. German - other than English or Japanese - puts a lot emphasis on the gender of words. For example, the English "The" is in German "Der, Die, Das", depending on the gender (male, female, neutral (<- I hope "neutral" is the correct expression in English). The point why I write this stuff is that my problem is how the word "Plugin" is used in the German translation. It's treated as female, but it is widely used as neutral (genderless), as it's a phrase "imported" from English (like "das Addon" or "das Brainstorming"). While the German translation of "Plugin", "Erweiterung", is female, "Plugin" (which we use here for software-related stuff) is - as far as I know and read - neutral. there is the chance that I be wrong and "Plugin" is "official" female, but that looks weird and I never heard "die Plugin" before. If I'm wrong, everyone is invitated to correct me. However, assuming that I'm right, I checked all the "affected" strings. Note: I converted the resorces file to a text format. I hope the following strings are free from conversion errors. Here are the strings. If something is wrong it's written in red together with a correction. If it's right, it's shown in blue. Effects.PluginLoadErrorsDialog.Message.Text=Die folgenden Plugins konnten nicht geladen werden. Sie wurden möglicherweise für eine ältere oder neuere Version von Paint.NET erstellt. Falls Sie schon die neueste Version von Paint.NET haben, sollten Sie feststellen ob eine aktualisierte Version von einer Plugin (von einem Plugin / eines Plugins <- both are possible) zur Verfügung steht. BlockedPluginException.PluginIsNowBuiltIn=Dieses Plugin ist jetzt in Paint.NET integriert. ( <- This one is OK :shock: ) Effect.PluginErrorDialog.RestartTB.ExplanationText=Schließt die Plugin (das Plugin) und schließt dann Ihre offenen Bilder und startet Paint.NET neu. Falls nötig werden Sie aufgefordert, alle Veränderungen zu speichern. Effect.PluginErrorDialog.IntroText=Ein Fehler ist bei dieser Plugin (diesem Plugin) aufgetreten, und sie (es) muss geschlossen werden. Effect.PluginErrorDialog.DoNotRestartTB.ExplanationText=Schließt die Plugin (das Plugin), aber Paint.NET wird nicht geschlossen oder neu gestartet. The following one is entirely weird: BlockedPluginException.UnstablePlugin=Es wurde festgestellt, dass diese Plugin (dieses Plugin) zu Stabilitäsproblemen führen kann und kann nicht geladen werden. The last sentence part is screwed up, if you ask me. Translated "back" to English, you might even get the correct sentence, but the German version is wrong and makes no sence. My translation would be: "... daher wird es nicht geladen." "Kann" (can) is not appropriate, because the plugin could be loaded, but Paint.NET does not load it (although it would be possible) for stability reasons. "Daher" (for this reason) shows the user the connection between the stability issues and the fact it's blocked from loading. I don't claim my translation is fine, but it might help the translators to get the point. To clearify it, it's OK to use "Plugin" in German. For the Plugin Gender Stuff, I don't know what's correct, but I give it to you as a German would write and expect it (but this might even be different within Germany - and especially Austria and Switzerland). The translators should have a look on it. As I mentioned, there is a chance that I'm doing it wrong - I'm not a professional, nor I claim it. You have also the option to change Plugin to "Erweiterung", which is undoubtedly female, but I prefer "Plugin". Last but not least I hope I post in the correct section. I've posted where I posted such stuff before - one may move it if desired. To make it clear for other mebers: In the Bugs & Troubleshooting section, posts have to be in English. I have chosen this sections (Bugs and...) again to prevent discussions in German which Rick and the translators (if they read it) and other people would not understand. Furthermore, I had severe problems with my wireless keyboards. I hope there are no typos and missing words, but after I had a browser crash typing this looong text I'm too tired to do a spellchecking. Please excuse it *falls asleep".

Yes, please. (To be honest, I have enough trust in you to assume that you can answer your question yourself. I hope you won't disappoint my hope.) If you're actually looking for advice, reading posts - especially the important, initial ones - twice before submitting them may help you further - you did not realize your typo for about two weeks. This way also "applies" more "logic and scientific reasoning and scepticism" than letting about 10.000 people guess a "main scheme" you claim to have. From my point of view, "write" looks different from "right", does it. As a futher advice: Enough of this. We all make mistakes; the way we treat them is the point. At least, if you want to flame me, you may do it via PM. You can even use four letter words there. Thanks.

So I did. 8)

Any chance to include it as a filetype plugin (like the OptiPNG EXE)?

Er... Maybe it's my mistake... Write-click = Right-click? I thought "write-click" would be the left one because the left mouse button is used to enter commands while the right one calls the menus... Well, thank you for the clarification.

It can be closed, however. "New" (found) mistakes should go in new threads.

After your Alpha Mask Brushes plugin added an entry and pyrochild's statement* I gave this one a try due to personal interest. What am I doing wrong? I see no (positive) difference to the line tool - I thought it would link each clicked point with a line. Instead, it links two clicks with a line and the third one is the beginning of an entirely new line. ---- * Interesting idea. I may follow your lead on this one.

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sabrown, you're rather creative with bringing up new submenus and I have one recommendation: Make a new submenu called "Other" and if you have no idea where to place an effect take "Other".

Is anybody interested in making a tutorial for the Cannel Mask plugin with more examples? At the moment I have not the time to explore all of it's features myself. And thanks for the updates - they are great additions.

The idea is interesting! But you should write for each plugin in which menu it is located. The "searching" stuff gets nasty as the number of submenus and effects grows. Thank you.

1) In the TGA save window, "Kompresse" sounds rather funny and should be - according to the English version - "Komprimieren (RLE)". * 2) "Ausgefühlter Pfeil" translated "back" to English would be "feeled arrow" instead of "filled arrow". That's a bit emotional, wrong, and the correct term is "Ausgefüllter Pfeil". "LL" instead of "HL". (Like "Fülleffekt", see image.) As a very side note, I noticed that some of the tool descriptions in the info bar (I mean the bar at the bottom of the main window) end with a "." (period), while some do not. This is not only when running PDN in German, it's also in the English version and - as I assume - not a mistake of the translators - if you even can call this issue a "mistake". ------- :!: * If "Kompresse" is a special TGA related expression in Germany please correct me. In English it's as I wrote, so I translated the English string just on my own.

Can your plugin be enhanced so it affects only specific channels / colors - or does affect only one channel / color range? The point is, when I adjust saturation, often some colors (red) become too saturated and look ugly. This happens especially when working with drawings. Fine tuning would really be nice. It's worth to make something advanced out of this (like shadow/highlight recovery) - I think that would be stunning.

Maybe not if there would be something like tabs - but that's almost the same as two plugins. Yeah, you're right.

It would be really nice if the icon would be soon included, even if the update would only be for the icon. I just don't like the gap in the adjustments menu - all the other entries have icons - and a very fine icon is available.

Nope. It doesn't happen just by accident - I would really often hit Tab without recognizing it. I check if this is limited to a certain language, but I'm very busy at the moment with other stuff.

Perhaps - perhaps - it would be a good idea to integrate this feature in Custom Brushes - it seems very similar to me. Actually I don't know if this is possible, especially concerning a clean UI. However, thanks for a new plugin.

Hello, thanks you clicked a thread with such a stupid title. Since I upgraded to 3.30 I have UI issues (see title). When I save a picture as JPEG, sometimes (!) there is a kind of "selection" (these "walking ants" but they don't "walk") and the slider is blue (color depends on your theme). Half an hour ago, I saved three pics, each after restarting PDN, as JPEG. They were all 1280x800 in size and photos. The first one gave the glitch, the 2nd not, the 3rd again (glitch). I don't know if there's a kind of system, but it happens since the installation of 3.30. The glitch appears in my opnion rather than the correct looking. I don't know if other languages are affected (I'm running German). Here are pictures: The above image was taken when saving the first of the mentioned pictures, the one below was taken saving the second one. The 3rd one gave - as described - the same result as #1. I am sorry for the German text, but due to the unpredictable nature of the bug I have not made English ones. I don't consider this as high-priority, but a fix would be nice. To make it clear, it never happened in an earlier version.

I think Rick is focussing on PDN 4.0 and does not plan to include such rather advanced or even unique features at the moment. For this reason I would recommend that somebody just creates a new filetype plugin. I don't know if the "current" PDN file format is included in the source code, but it might be a good way to start. Then maybe it could be XML based, like the Office 07 file format or XPS, a kind of ZIP containing the image itself and other components like attachments. I'm a noop, and that are just ideas. But metadata would be no mistake, like licencse, copyright, author, version etc. Also, a special new file format would not show any previews in explorer. But a .PDNA format (Paint.NET Advanced file format) would be really nice. Additional features could include embedable ICC profiles to maintain colors on different systems (important for sharing) and maybe an enhanced compression. But now it really becomes Star Trek.

What I mean is not that 100 JPEG in general is bad, the problem is the lack of JPEG options in Paint.NET (especially in 3.30 compared to PNG or TGA - I don't know how many people actually use TGA). You should look in the thread I link and especially scroll down to the 2nd example ("This is an example"). viewtopic.php?f=12&t=20431&p=100540 Here's a screenshot of GIMP's JPEG options (cause the one linked in the thread is "404ed"): The subsampling has the most important impact on quality.

I had linked it. As I can't quote (locked topic), I copy the text: Encouraged by this I then implemented Polygon and Polyline tools. The polygon tool is much like the freeform shape tool but only adds points to the shape whenever the user clicks the mouse, joining them with straight lines. The polyline tool is similar but is not a closed shape and hence cannot be filled. This took even less time so I then added a new toolbar corner type drop-down list which allowed control of the shape of line corners (ie how 2 line segments are joined together). This control gives the option of rounded, flat, or clipped (sharp corners which are clipped if the angle is too acute). [Currently in PDN 3.10 line corners are always sharp but revert to flat (not clipped) if they become too acute. The effect is not often seen with current shapes (but can be seen in the freeform shape or a very flat ellipse, ...?) but with the ability to have polygons, polylines and skewed rectangles control of line joins becomes important.] Further encouraged by this I added full bezier support to polylines. This allows either sharp joins by left-clicking (which use the above-mentioned line corner control) or smooth joins by right-clicking. As in other programs adjusting the bezier handle at a smooth join moves the opposing bezier diametrically opposite in order to preserve the perfectly smooth join. It was not a plugin, it was a set of two new tools. Rick locked the topic and removed the downloads because, as it was a modified version of Paint.NET itself, it was unstable. I still have a video from that time (it was a modified version of I think 3.10 and doesn't work with the current release). It was not just a polygon tool, it incorporated some interesting features, allowing to change and rotate the lines and so one.