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Are you opening too many images to drag & drop them into order?

If you have suggestions- let's hear them

Hello @kaykaysnowdancer - welcome to the forum Select the Color Picker tool (looks like an eyedropper) and click on the color you want to copy. This will install the color into the Primary Color slot ready for you to use with the next tool you activate.

Try what I suggested.

@MadManDiscoBear sent me this image It looks like there are extra files in your installation directory: .dotnet folder & Native folder. I'm not sure you should have any files starting with api. If I was you, I'd... Uninstall paint.net. Delete the Program files > paint.net folder (if it remains after uninstalling PDN). Reinstall paint.net. Someone else might have a more elegant solution than my brutal suggestion - so wait for more comments before undertaking what I propose.

Why not lower the opacity of the top layer and eyeball it? This took less than a minute....

^ That's what I thought too.

Navigate to your paint.net installation folder take a screenshot (right click + take a screenshot). Paste the image into paint.net and save it. Upload the image to a 3rd-party hosting site. Post the URL here.

It's a long shot - can you show us the contents of your paint.net installation folder?

There are plugins, several in fact. Most operate on an area that is surrounded by transparency, so.... Copy the selection Paste selection into a new layer (Ctrl + Shift + V) Apply one of Feather Object or AA's Assistant to the new layer. BoltBait has a plugin which will fade the selection (it's called, wait for it...Fade Selection) and KrisVDM has a Fade Edge plugin. Fading in-situ will leave a gap between the original and the selection edge.

It might help to turn the overscrolling off (Setttings > User Interface > 5th checkbox). It won't stop the image scrolling, but will limit the damage by stopping at the image edge.

AA's Assistant is a plugin. Use it to smooth the edges of an object (Object = a group of pixels surrounded by transparency).

Grid Warp? If none of these ^ are correct, try typing the keyword WARP into the Plugin Index

Are you sure you're copying a visible layer prior to the paste? Try Ctrl + Shift + C as your copy shortcut (copy all layers aka copy merged) Pasting: Ctrl + Shift + V (paste into new layer)

+1 ^^ You can add the Ctrl key to the square bracket keys for larger size changes (5px per combination press). Unfortunately there is no keyboard chord for Hardness.

+1 Nice. I used Sin Waves (because, lazy). The result wasn't as nice, but passable.

+1. Tip: Press the M key twice

Run the plugin with a Saturation of -75 and increase the Lightness to 15. Then run the Sepia Adjustment & you're half way there! With a little tweaking, https://postimg.cc/hXnL94F4

To find the plugin (once installed) in paint.net, look in the Effects > Object menu.

Done. Disagree. CSV stands for comma separated values - so hexcodes are entirely valid in a CSV file.

Color channels. Red, Green, Blue & Alpha. You can replace X with a set value (allows you to set the alpha value manually). The CSV plugin transcribes rows starting from the top left. You can specify rows by adding a linefeed at the end of the row. E.g. this structure... Gives this output The size of the output should match the image dimensions. ^this demo image was a 32x32 pixel icon.

My CSV filetype plugin could be useful here. Copy your selection to a new image, then save it as a *.CSV file based on the color format/structure you want. You'll have to do the sorting yourself (tip: load the CSV file into Excel or a Google sheet).

For those wondering about this bit.... ....if you're using a shape as a map-mask, soften the edge to get a more organic coastline. Otherwise the falloff from land to sea will be too abrupt. In the images below, notice how the hard Eastern edge of the shape produces a cookie-cutter coast. The softened Western side of the shape produces a more meandering coastline with a much more believable slope from the highlands down to the sea (and also light blue shallows). >>> The deeper the alpha blurring is, the gentler the taper from land to sea. See?

👍 To get a more organic coastline, use dents at a largish scale to distort the mask outline, then run Gaussian blur to smooth it out.

I just remembered @John Stewien's plugins are open source. Yay, because I lifted the ToAngle code from him. Here's the source