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I tawt I taw a puddy tat! Just to be clear, rectangular image become ellipsoid, and square become circular. Cool name for the plugin!

Try lowering the opacity even more. There a number of packs pinned in the Plugin Pack section of the forum. These are considered highly among the members of the forum. You can't really go wrong downloading a handful of these packs. Which are the most useful? It's the plugin which does the next job on your list No. There was the embryo if a linux conversion long ago. I believe that this has fallen by the wayside. There might be an emulator which might do the job - you're best asking in a Linux forum.

Yes that's the correct thread. Download the Zip file and unzip it. Copy or move the *.dll file(s) to your Paint.NET /Effects folder. Restart Paint.NET. Full instructions here: Plugin Installation

I'm not sure what you mean by 'non standard'? Plugins cannot have their own assigned shortcut. It's not able to be specified from within the plugin. You are able to run a plugin using keystrokes which open and drill down the menu system. Would that work for you?

There is not much point leaving this thread open without the images it was founded on. Shame really. <locked>

This plugin might extend support if you have a twain camera Twainable.Believe its 32 bit only.

Promoted "Dark Space" to the Galleria. Congratulations Skully! p.s. Why is that nice old man spanking that nice young lass in your PB account? They BOTH look to be enjoying it...

Prominence has been promoted to the Galleria. Bloody well deserved it is too. What an image

Such depth! Each image has an arresting sense of ... well..., depth! You can really "look into" these. Marvelous stuff

Metal would use many of the same shades as stone. The trick with metal is to give it the illusion of lighting to make it appear glossy. See this excellent tutorial: Welshy's Chain Links. Notice that the finished article has a grey palette? Yet it looks shiny. Clever eh?

Not a plugin - they MUST play nicely with Paint.NET. Hooking into the system this way would not be appropriate for a plugin. 3rd party? It may be possible to map an extra mouse button to a keyboard shortcut. I recommend you do a bit more research on this idea.

Your 'stripes' are the difference between the image size * view/zoom factor and the size of the editing window. Your image top left corner is placed at 0,0 according to the rulers. Try increasing the view size of your image. This will make the image fill more of the editing window. Please post a screenshot if I have interpreted your question incorrectly.

Click the middle icon of the three in the top right corner of the window. It is the one that looks like two connected squares. This maximizes the application window. Your English is just fine Edit: Beaten to the post.

Don't know. It's a ZIP file and it appears to download just fine?

@ Pixey: Hover over the plugin title in the menu and a tool tip will appear telling you the plugin details (if they exist). A lot of modern plugins will give you the DLL name and the author.

Thanks Welshy! and thanks for the font too @chinarich: Don't worry - we'll help you

Thanks Drew. I really wish Welshy would tell us how he did the embossed text on his cards. I had a really quick go and and failed badly

[beaten by 'Noob - but I will post it anyway...] Nope. Think about it. What if you wanted to add three more characters? 18x18 would be too small. In Paint.NET each layer is the same size as the image. This means we can place an element in a layer and move it around within the layer. We often describe layers as acetate sheets. Stacked together they form the image. It makes sense to have all these 'sheets' the same size.

I suspect this is a system crash and not related to Paint.NET - except that is happened to be running when the system went down.

Had some fun with this. PM me if you want the PDN file. The size is 963 x 612 with 12 layers.

Quite correct

Or photoshop format using the PSD plugin

I wondered if a plugin like Lens or the Bulge effect might help here? I'm not at a PC right now so can't check this idea out...

That's good news! Welcome to the forum

One layer. This step is to create background star field. This will be resized and pasted into a second layer in the first image. Press Ctrl + A to select all the layer then Ctrl + C to copy it to the clipboard. You can also do this via the menus. Go back to the first image and create a new layer. Ctrl + V pastes the clipboard into this new layer. From there you flatten and continue. Good luck!