Mike Ryan

WEEKLY TUTORIAL COMPETITION How to Make a Sliced 3D Orange by csm725 Link: | Deadline: Midnight, September 4th, 2010 Welcome to the Brand New WTC! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to the brand new Weekly Tutorial Competition. In this competition, the theme is determined by a tutorial. Your task? To take what you learn from the tutorial and create something even better. Since this is the first time this competition has ever run, here are my suggestions for the selected tutorial: think about ways to make the orange more realistic. A bland, white background might not be the most suitable choice to present your orange. Think about shadows and the overall texture of the orange. May the best orange win! The WTC Rules [Required Reading] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is no maximum image size but if any of the images are larger than 800x800, please LINK to it instead! No crude / offensive language, pics, et cetera. Submissions will be disqualified if it does not match the theme of the tutorial! Only one entry per person and no modifications to your image are allowed after submitting your entry. Unless the tutorial SPECIFICALLY calls for a stock image, no stock images are allowed! You are allowed one post in this topic. That post should include your entry, links to your source images. Beyond these rules, if the competition host finds that the entry is clearly inappropriate for one reason or another, he or she may disqualify that entry without warning Note: Unlike other competitions, the winner does NOT get to choose the theme for next week's competition, but he or she is welcome to make suggestions Deadline: Midnight on September 4th, 2010 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The deadline is at midnight on September 4th, 2010. Late entries are accepted until I close the thread. The competition will not end if there are less than five entries. Voting will begin within one to two days after the competition has ended. My timezone is Central (US and Canada). Good luck, everybody!

Ok, so here are the rules for the competition: There is no maximum image size but if any of the images are larger than 800x800, please LINK to it instead! No crude / offensive language, pics, et cetera. Submissions will be disqualified if it does not match the theme of the tutorial! Only one entry per person and no modifications to your image are allowed after submitting your entry. Unless the tutorial SPECIFICALLY calls for a stock image, no stock images are allowed! You are allowed one post in this topic. That post should include your entry, links to your source images. Beyond these rules, if the competition host finds that the entry is clearly inappropriate for one reason or another, he or she may disqualify that entry without warning Note: Unlike other competitions, the winner does NOT get to choose the theme for next week's competition, but he or she is welcome to make suggestions As soon as it gets approved, I'd like to nominate myself to be the competition host and I'd start the competition immediately. Any suggestions for a great first tutorial?

I highly advise against tiered competitions. There are a plethora of beginner's tutorials, and if any advance tutorial was chosen it wouldn't be hard for me (or any other comp host) to post a link to recommended tutorials for practice. Besides, comp hosts, how many new Paint.NET users join your comps in comparison to seasoned users?

Also, you don't have to use good tutorials for this competition, either. Using a rather terrible tutorial could also be really fun to see what people come up with.

@Rubrica: I agree, but I am not certain. I think one or two un-tiered trial runs would give us more information. @csm725: I can host, too

I was thinking about a competition that could be fun and accessible to both young and seasoned Paint.NET users informally named as the Weekly Tutorial Competition. The competition works like this: Each week an already created tutorial is chosen by last week's winner and entrants to the competition compete to make the best entry based on the tutorial. The basics to any theme are ready and available to new Paint.NET users where as more experienced users would have a better understanding of where to make changes to the tutorial's formula. So, what do you guys think?

So, I am in AP Art this term. (Didn't want to be because of the work load, but the art teacher likes me so it should be a fun class). Anyways, here is my first AP Art piece as rendered in TerraGen then heavily manipulated in Paint.NET. Because I am in AP Art, expect a lot more from me. My portfolio type is 2D, and I think I might move into these kinds of scenery renders for my concentration. Edit: The above image is reduced in size. I'll work on getting a full size up by night's end.

For some reason or another, the Windows clipboard only supports the alpha channel with the BMP file format. The easiest way to deal with it is paste your image into a temporary folder and then Layers -> Import from File.

It shouldn't be a feature that is automatically on. There is a reason why other downloads like Opera have turned this feature off in their releases: it is extremely annoying with anymore than four or five tabs.

There's a perfect plugin for this: Extract Channel by Ed Harvey. Duplicate the image layer three times, then run the effect four times each time preserving your specified channel. Then set the Layer blend modes to Additive. This won't work for the alpha channel as there is no real implementation of alpha mask layers.

I think the problem you are having is only with pasting .PNG image files. For some reason or another, the Windows clipboard only supports the alpha channel with the BMP file format. The easiest way to deal with it is paste your image into a temporary folder and then Layers -> Import from File.

The cleanest way of changing the color would be to use an alpha mask to separate the outline from the object. Then use Silhouette Plus to change the outlines color to Orange and to reset the color of the object, then merge the outline and the object back together.

He's probably looking for a PDF because he needs it in a vector file format. My suggestion is too save the PDN as a PNG image file, then upload it too VectorMagic to trace the PNG to a vector. The downside is that if your image is overly complex or uses gradients, you are sure to lose quality

Here is an awesome list that Paint.NET tops: http://lifehacker.com/5567174/top-10-windows-applications-that-should-be-on-macs

Effective immediately, Simon Brown is the competition host for the Weekly Skinning Competition until further notice.

Poll is up.

My apologies folks, but I've departed the forums for a good, long while. Family issues, plus finals, plus lack of job = no Paint.NET time or related matters. I'll put up a poll tonight, let the poll run its cycle, archive the competition, and then revive once I'm back for good. Again, sorry for the lengthy delay. Hard times are difficult.

A poll will be created when there are five or more entries

One entry?! Come on guys, lets get skinning!

I really like "What inspires you?". That is my choice for the next SotW

THanks! Congrats to the runner ups, yall's (I am so southern) were great! I think I've won nearly every SotW I've participated in. :? Anyways, I'll think up a theme quick. Any suggestions?

I must be missing something, but when does the poll end?

ACTUALLY, the easiest way is to click on the Post Number at the top right of each post. This'll produce a link similar to this: Post Above Me

Very interesting, abstract, out of the box, and uniquely colorful entry, csm725! I like 'em. Just don't be afraid when I come knockin' in with an entry of my own!

Oh, yeah that is allowed. Just make sure in your submission you note that you used a screen shot for stock.