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Holding down the Shift key while making a magic wand selection does the same as setting the Global flood mode. Ref http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/MagicWand.html Simpler to paste directly into a new layer with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + V. Ref http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/EditMenu.html

To keep the discussion of this plugin in one place I've merged the separate thread (previous three posts) into this one.

1. Magic wand using the Shift key modifier will select all the instances of the target color. 2. Ctrl + C to copy it to the clipboard 3. Ctrl + Shift + V = paste into a new layer

Rick has been working on this. Patience Thread is over a year old. Let's close this. If you want to kick off the subject anew - please start a new thread.

Confirmed. When dragging out a diagonal gradient top right to bottom left there is a pixel boundary which messes with the gradient. The boundary seems to be a single column of pixels close to the left hand side. Repros with both rectangular and square images. The reverse direction shows the same bug (bottom left to top right). The other diagonal is Ok. Hypothesis: it appears to be the same number of pixels from the left hand side as the number of pixels down from the top that the gradient started. Repro: 1. Drag a linear gradient from A to B. Note the number of pixels (x) the gradient starts from down from the top edge. 2. When you get to X pixels from the left hand edge the gradient changes color as you horizontally traverse the red column of pixels. Here's what the bug looks like....

Hi Tubo - welcome to thew forum I'm not quite following you. Where do you find the "select" function? Can you give us a step-by-step guide to what you're doing? "Finish Paint Bucket" appears in the History window to denote that the paint bucket fill has been committed to the canvas. Until you "finish" it, the active fill can be altered (drag click point, change color, etc,). This functionality has changed compared to paint.net 3.5. See here for more details http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/PaintBucket.html

I'm not familiar with how the .bat file actually handles the file copying. You could manually copy the plugin DLL files into your paint.net/Effects folder. Then restart paint.net.

In English please. Try Google Translate.

Unusual. I've not heard of this problem before. Have you tried running the PdnRepair utility? Find it in your paint.net directory e.g. C:\Program Files\paint.net\PdnRepair.exe Are there any crash log reported? Look in Settings > Diagnostics > Open Crash Log folder If that fails to solve the problem, go to Settings > Diagnostics > Copy to Clipboard. Paste the results into a post here. While you have the Settings dialog open - try disabling the animations. Just to see..you never know.

Hey pavlovmb - welcome Selections also have their bounding rectangle and other info displayed in the Status Bar. This plugin helps measure objects (groups of pixels on their own transparent layer) Measure Object

There is no official download - older versions are simply not supported.

I wasn't sure about the .NET runtime number. Thanks for clearing that up Rick.

^ and ^^ What is it with your avatars? You guys twins?? Seriously nice effect Red. I'm planning to play with this big time over the weekend. Thanks!

I've split this post out from the thread it was posted in. Just to keep things orderly and searchable A normal update should not kill off your plugins. However, your IT department might have. Ask them to restore the contents of the paint.net/Filetypes/ and paint.net/Effects/ folders from a backup prior to the update.

Are you up to date with your Windows updates? Do you have .NET 4.6 installed?

You need to clean out the last installation. Go here and read post #2 about the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/692-install-update-or-uninstall-trouble-read-this/ Other forum users have successfully used Revo uninstaller. Once the old installation is removed you should be able to reinstall.

It says .NET 4.0.3 - have you installed .NET 4.6? (It's required).

Adding to what Jim has said, some images lend themselves to the jpg format - like photos. The format automatically optimizes the image by way of compression. You can specify how much compression is used. The downside is that quality suffers. Usually it is hard to detect the quality loss above 90%. This will create a smaller file which will download faster. PNG is a great format for images which don't have the complexity of a photo. These can be further optimized with the tinypng or optipng tools. One of the greatest optimizations you can make is to size your image to the size it will be displayed. Its a waste of bandwidth to serve a 3000x2000 pixel image when its being displayed at 620x480 pixels.

Hey ChuckK - welcome to the forum We'll need more information... What version are you trying to install? What version did you have previously? Tell us your system specifications.

Hi meman1188 - welcome I'd create a new canvas which is oversized by maybe 100px. Then add a filled layer with a centrally placed rectangular cutout of the correct dimensions (200x300). If you paste and resize the image into a layer below the "frame" you have some capacity to tweak the location - hidden by the frame borders. Select inside the frame & Ctrl + Shift + C (copy merged) to export the clipped image.

Once you get used to it the sub-menus become quite useful for finding plugins. If you had them all in one long menu you would be forever scrolling up and down to find stuff.

Thanks Null54. I'll flag this change for the next edition.

February Update Five new plugins this month... Edge Expander - @MJW. Finds edges in the image or selection (edges are defined as pixels above an opacity threshold which border pixels below the threshold) and expands the edge by a specified distance (from trhe original). Each expanded edge pixel is set to the color of the nearest edge pixel. The transparency depends on the distance from the edge. Gaussian Blur Clamped - @toe_head2001. Much like the regular Gaussian Blur effect, except this effect gets clamped to the active selection. This effectively stops colors (and transparency) from bleeding through from outside of the selection. Graph Paper - @toe_head2001. Generates graph paper with adjustable Cell Size & grouping. Options include square or isometric grids, and colorization. QuickBASIC BSAVE Graphics - @Ham62. Adds support for Screen 13 QuickBASIC BSAVE'd graphics with the file extensions *.BSV or *.VGA. Limitations: maximum image size 320x200px, file size of 64kb, 8bpp & standard VGA color palette. Soft Proofing Tools - @null54. Simulates how the current layer would look when printed with a specified color profile. The layer can then be exported as a JPEG or TIFF with the target color profile embedded. Note: Visual C++ 2010 SP1 runtime is required. In other changes, I've reformatted the PDF version. The font has been change to Calibri (from Verdana) and the size of the text tweaked. I've also added a linefeed before each entry to improve readability. Enjoy!

Hey John & welcome to the forum. We probably have all done this. Many times Honestly - the best solution here is to concentrate and make sure you select the correct layer prior to making changes. I sometimes make a copy of the layer and work on the upper one. Then if the changes are horrible the layer can just be erased & no harm done.

To include this information would require a change to the pdn file format. Breaking every pdn file created up to this point. You can imagine how Rick would frown on that. IMHO you just need to get used to adding a new layer after opening the image. Or otherwise adjusting your workflow. Why not record the notes on a default blank image and later import then into the lined template?