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@BoltBait's Fill from Clipboard? Copy Union Jack image to the clipboard. In the target image, use the magic Wand tool to select one of the pieces. Run Effects > Fill > Fill from Clipboard.

That's really sweet @lynxster4. I really like what you've done with the aura!

I think with a suitably low tolerance you'll be fine selecting just one hue. Also I didn't make it clear, step 3.5 = Deselect the copied land before running 1px Expansion.

Thanks @toe_head2001 👍 People, here is a new build to try out. Changes... Two pairs settings from legacy planets were inadvertently being swapped. Fixed. @toe_head2001 has removed the Import button. Now old and new planets can both be loaded with the Load button. Versioning pushed out to 1.4.2 Planetoid_for_PDN_5.0.zip [I get the feeling there is still one setting which is off. I'll try to find it.]

Please post the error message

...and today's the day!! Here's the new build. Time for some testing <snip - new version below> What's new in this build? Well, everything. @toe_head2001 and @Rick Brewster made a heap of detailed suggestions to improve the plugin and @otuncelli basically rewote the entire plugin and cleaned up a lot of poor quality code. I'm indebited to these people for their generous assistance. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ . Among the changes... Lots of refactoring/cleanup and performance improvements HiDPI fixes New feature: Now, you can restore the exact same planet you save (randoms are also saved) Along the way, the way planets were saved in XML was changed. This means existing planets didn't load, so I added an IMPORT button to allow legacy planets to be loaded. I recommend you load up saved planets and then SAVE them anew in the new format. If anyone has trouble reviving a legacy planet, please let me know. Similarly, if you find a bug - a post here would be appreciated.

You'll need this plugin: 1px expansion from @dpy's plugin pack, and one of Feather Object or AA's Assistant. Use the magic Wand tool with the SHIFT key held down to select all of the country color (I had to lower the Tolerance quite a bit make sure only one hue was selected). Copy the selection CTRL + C Paste the selection into a new layer CTRL + SHIFT + V Apply Effects > Distort > 1px expansion (I had to apply it three times to clean up Deep Purple). Note that you've increased the size of the country as a side-effect of closing up the internal borders. Apply AA's Assistant repeatedly (Ctrl + F after the first time you run it) or @BoltBait's Feather Object (Radius=3) to nibble away at the borders until the external border is again visible. Repeat for each country.

Excellent. I'll have it resurrected and back in the Plugin Index next update.

@Dzdzovnica - it's time we let this thread die. If you want to re-start the conversation, please start a new thread.

Much easier: Ctrl + Shift + C Ctrl + Alt + V Ctrl + S To update the JPG image from your developing image, Ctrl + Shift + C Navigate to the JPG image Ctrl + V Ctrl + S Repeat as many times as you like.

Hi @Panchdara , if you type in the name of the DLL as the keyword and you'll get all the plugins in that DLL returned. Like this.... Cool?

March Update .......umm, nothing. Check in again in April

Ctrl + O opens a file-picker dialog. Is there a chance that dialog is being obscured by other windows or is being minimized?

I suspect there might be some problematic metadata attached to these files. Will these images open in MS Paint? If so, try saving a copy and see in PDN will open the copy.

Hello @Juansioso - welcome to the forum Not in a side-by-side situation. One way to mimic the behaviour is to copy all the layers and paste them into a new image: In your developing image.... Ctrl + Shift + C (copy merged) Ctrl + Alt + V (paste into new image) Naturally the new image won't update as you work, but the keyboard chords are quick enough to repeat whenever you want a preview..

I'm guessing its the default resolution. PDN has to show something in the dialogs.

I'm updating the Documentation. Here are the shortcuts mentioned....

Try another keyboard and also try the other Alt key (if you have two). I suspect you have a bad key.

Nope. Rick needed to free up some keyboard shortcuts for other actions. To rotate by 180 degrees, rotate by 90 degrees twice. For -90 rotate by 90 degrees three times.

👍 Thanks Rick.

Does anyone have an idea why I'm not able to see the VS designer when I try to load my plugin UI? I've looked in my <effect>ConfigDialog.cs file - but can't see where anything is declared abstract.

Not really. The thumbnail is stored separately from the file. Unlikely, but you could try this: Right click on the file >> Restore Previous Version.

New build has been posted in the first post. v1.5 sports a handsome new tabbed UI thanks to @BoltBait

Hello @MikhailG - welcome to the forum In short, there isn't a way to automate this. Here's a workaround using keyboard shortcuts to make it as painless as we can. Open the image (or a group of them). For each image... Ctrl + L open Levels. If you've already run levels and the setting don't need to change, Ctrl + F runs the adjustment again. Ctrl + Shift + S (save as) Make sure PNG is the filetype and confirm the filename In the PNG configration dialog, press Tab three times Press the down arrow until 1-Bit is shown as the bit-depth Press Enter to save. Repeat for all images.

Plenty of hints can be found using the Plugin Index