Mike Ryan

On second thought, how about we sort of mimic tHs's work with the Large Art of the Year? Anybody interested?

Alright, so I organized it and added a navigation bar at the top and bottom, for easy viewing. I will get started on adding some real artwork soon

When dealing with inverted versions of my artwork, you are seemingly dealing with my least favorite colors in design I am going to start working on organizing my gallery and then get some of my larger artwork up with a list too all of my generated content (plugins and tutorials). Also, no, despite what it may seem like I had no intention of the timing of my gallery to coincide with New Years, however it is most appropriate

It is called 'Today' and is right now one of my favorite fonts

4 8 12 15 16 23 42 They are the numbers from hit ABC series 'Lost', I am a bit of a fanboy

So I added a 'logo' and then I added an actual logo I designed at the end of the page. Enjoy

Yes, you will see a lot of me during the summer as well :oops:

I retired around August or September, however my activity and artwork creation spark up when I go home for the holidays

It was a name and logo proposition change for Paint.COM Thank you everybody for the warm comments. I will try to get into the habit of publishing things here instead of to my Recycle Bin

- - - Well, my name is Mike but I s'pose many just call me 'Mike Ryan'. I once had one of these things, but I had it closed down. Then I decided 'Hey, I make quite a bit of stuff that just sits in idle folders, why not recreate my Pictorium gallery and get rid of some of it?' and to me that sounded like a great idea. So, here is some stuff to enjoy look at: I take great care with my design and flow when it comes to logos as they do tend to represent a person, product, or company. So why be represented with pure rubbish? As such, most of my fooling around deals with modifying text and creating a flow around said text. I think this highly benefits a signature more than anything else, and it is in all of my work Hidden Content: Added and Created on January 5th, 2009 Just as much as logos, I also love signatures. Mainly because a signature is a fusion of personality and logo. I don't think a signature is something to just throw a stock on and then color up with custom brushes, but something that expresses yourself as a person. As well, I have included all of my avatars that I could find along with their sister signature Hidden Content: (Added on 2/26/09 - Chaos Signature) (My first signature, ever. And it won me a competition ) However, I do find myself sometimes working beyond my comfort zone and this is a collection of just that: random stuff that I just 'did' whether it be for a competition, a test, or pure boredom. I wouldn't expect too much addition here, heheh. Enjoy! Hidden Content: (That is all for now, but keep checking back!) - - - Welcome to Mike.Ryan52's gallery, or should I say Mike Ryan? Remember when my username had that period? Remember me in my early days? How about some of my recent artwork lost to time and the other adventures of unrealism. Welcome to the archaic discovery of artwork created by the hands of Mike Ryan, and welcome to a limited time exhibit created for those wishing to see a dark side of my moon. Ask me for a revolution, and you know that I'll stick to my guns. Because in the end, I hold no quarter. Hidden Content: This image is a crossroad of old signature methods and my newer models. As well, if you search the forums for this username you may find an account with a similar signature. In fact, if I recall correctly you might even try Stegonagraphy to reveal what is beyond eyesite. This image brings revolution to the motion blur 3-D technology by providng two blended objects through one visual angle, along with proper shadowing and shading. This is on my business cards, so if you ever see this design again you now know who this belongs to. I'd like to thank CMD for the tremendous amount of criticism he gave me during the creation of the final card, of which I will not post for security reasons. This signature changes seasons from left to right using my emblem of initials as a bond of elements in an attempt to provide a highly visualistic view into my image manipulation and editing, something that was neither encouraged nor well recieved as a signature I only wore for some weeks. Using motion blur, shading, and shadowing to create visual depth in a 3-D object. This was meant as a spreading piece so as to enjoy what is possible with Paint.NET using only built in effects. This also uses the motion blue technology to create its intricate styles and detailing. A signature incompleted or a signature with no theme? That is all people could say during this pieces first unveiling, not realizing that I would be giving thanks to Paul McCartney by adding the text 'Sing the Changes' as a Paint.NET v3.5 celebration signature. This one, unfortunetly, died away. This was created as a redesign idea with some working code and was contributed to Rick Brewster. He never responded. I guess he loves lack of organization and ads skewed everywhere as I attempted to bring focus to important areas while allowing space for advertising and other money making schemes. One would think "Paint.NET cannot be ported to the Nintendo DS" but perhaps this artistic creation argues otherwise... Many would believe that this would be on the back of a Tool album, or had it had more vibrant colors that it would be an OMA creation. But instead this is just me messing with Zoom Blur, Radial Blur, and Xor. Look at the patterns created by difference methods! I begin to get my finger wet in realism as suggested by Oma. I like what I did here, but it just isn't my style. I wanted to finish the hand, but I didn't. This story applies to a lot of what I have contributed to Paint.NET: false truths, and promises that I could not carry out. This is a signal of who I was and who I am trying to put behind.

From what I can tell from your Effects folder, you downloaded the 'source' files of the plugin. You don't necessarily have to know what that means, other than the fact that it isn't the actual .dll

User BoltBait has written a plugin known as Alpha to Greyscale. Use that plugin to extract the alpha channel into an editale greyscale, then save the greyscale layer and load it in using the alpha mask plugin. This should be the simplest way in editing the alpha channel directly. As well, the eraser tool works exactly as you described. Left click will reduce the transparency based on the alpha level of your primary color while a right click will edit the transparency based on the alpha level of your secondary color.

Thanks Helen, I am happy you enjoy

This tutorial is available as a PDF. Click here to view or download it

Didn't realise the discussion I had created :oops: I wasn't suggesting doing it, I said it would be better as a blending mode, I know it isn't feasibly possible. Just talking

Sometimes I feel as though this would be better as a layer blending mode, but still is very useful. Thanks again, Pyrochild

Some major CC on this next peice is welcome... http://www.anhelodesigns.com/tagflow_logo.pdn

Well, I guess I will submit an older work of mine for this competition. Created it in mid-November as an actual subsitute for the current layout (Click for Larger) (Click for Larger) The mountain view and the Paint.NET logo are licensed to Rick Brewster, with getpaint.net adapation edited by me. The RSS icons are licensed as well as the Paypal image. Sorry for the largely marked out section regarding ads :oops:

Alright, I think I understand what he means: he is trying to install Paint.NET unattended (through command prompt). Everything works as expected in Windows XP, however on a Vista installation the unattended install asks the user to click Ok or Cancel on whether or not to Restart. He wants to know if it is at all posssible to skip this final dialogue screen in Vista. I think.

I love your suggestions. Your crop by one line has been suggested forever, and it has been called 'Trimming'. I do believe I remember Rick Brewster, the lead developer, mention trimming in an upcoming build if I recall correctly.

Be sure you Wacom has the latest drivers and that it is pluged in before opening up Paint.NET.

Not necessarily...

I err, don't mean to belly out my plugin pack but I consider those to be my top six most used plugins, simply because I wrote them whenever I found myself repeating the tasks those plugins simulate quite frequently. Perhaps what I do consider to be the most important package of plugins would be BoltBait's plugin pack. Tools like Feather make image editing so much easier to use.

Extroadinary work from a talented artist... rest in peace.

:oops: Anyways, Ash: here is an updated version of Simon's take on the plugin. Same interface, same menu, same everything except that the bug is removed. I recommend using it until Simon updates the current. make_color_transparent.zip