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I remember you! How can I forget that avatar? Sadly it doesn't seem to be animated any more You've made quite a nice job of this tutorial. Thanks for posting it!

Not to my knowledge. Amazon lists three titles, all ebooks. I'm the author of the ebook Mastering Paint.NET 3.5.10, so I wonder why you're not interested in an electronic book? Edit: If you speak Portuguese there is this title : http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/26083-paint-net-exercices-book-portuguese-only/

Difficult to install?? BoltBait wrote the definitive guide, try following these steps >> https://boltbait.com/pdn/InstallingEffects.php

Or use the Recolor Tool It preserves the subtle shades when recoloring. Info >> http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/RecolorTool.html

Recommend you delete Thermal Heat Map. It's awful. I know - I wrote it

300 DPI is a high quality print setting (almost photo quality). For a poster of that size you're probably not going to actually need such a high setting. Consider how close is the poster intended to be read from? In the hand? From a meter? Two? Hand: 300 DPI might be appropriate. Meter: Try 200 DPI. Two meters: 150 DPI should be enough. If in doubt, go higher rather than lower.

I tend to use a great BIG brush size

Sad isn't it? I bet he's gone all Twitter and Facebook...

Alignment: Install either version of the Align Object plugins (see Plugin Index - link in my signature). No. See FAQ.

Paint.NET produces images. Not URL's. Yes you can produce overlay type images (images that have some transparency - save them as a *.png), but you'll have to figure out how to overlay them yourself.

As Rick said..., It's also possible to customize the tool icons using much the same method. If you really want to have a go >> http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/25384-mastering-paintnet-ebook/ (Chapter 15).

Nomination accepted. "Alley behind a restaurant" promoted to the Gallery. Nice piece

Brilliant! Awarding myself one star

Without seeing the image it's hard to guess if this will do the job or not: 1. Open the square image 2. File > Image > Canvas Size | enlarge by 200% anchor: Center 3. Effects > Distort > Bulge @ 100 4. Make a circular selection as large as possible within the limits of the distorted image - does that encompass the text? If it does press Ctrl + Shift + X to crop to the circular selection. If that doesn't work, please post the image here so we can see how close the text is to the corners.

the dithering control is only enabled when your image has a palette which is wider than it's possible to hold in the 8-bit format. In other words you have more than 256 colors in your image and the 8-bit can only handle a palette of 256 colors. To 'fake' the extra colors the image is dithered. Scratch that - it shouldn't matter. I suspect that your issue is with the format using or not using RLE (run length encoding) to compress the file. This compression is available with indexed BMPs where each byte is an index into a table of up to 256 colors (i.e. 8-bit). I'm betting your software demands one form (using RLE or not using it) and won't correctly interpret the other format. In Paint.NET there is no option to turn RLE on or off when saving as a BMP. The Low Color Filetype plugin also does not seem to have the option, but it might be worth trying it to see if images saved with it will play nicely with your Garmin software.

It won't change until you manually change it. Toggling between Primary and Secondary will not change it.

How wide is your palette? I.e. does the dithering control become enabled when you select 8-bit color depth?

You could just redraw the sample images you posted. Open the image, add a new layer and begin customizing. Remember to use File > Save As... to rename it so you don't lose the original.

I'm sure TechnoRobbo can give you a technical answer, but here's what I think is happening: You're (mostly) using a flat gradient to mimic the sky. When these are folded to form the box the seams are apparent because the gradients abruptly change direction in the corner. So what's the answer? Texture. The images you like have texture. This disrupts the apparent changes in direction at the corners of the box because the change is never linear. I would add some texture to the flat blue sky (think "clouds") and try to cover as much as possible the linear gradient. Another option might be to remove the gradient and go with a flat blue sky with some ornamentation (moons/individual clouds/great big ringed planet on the horizon). Your images will still need to seamlessly join. There are two plugins which might help you achieve smoother transitions: BoltBait's seamless texture maker MadJik's seamless texture maker

Add a new layer. On the new layer trace the original bumpy lines using the line/curve tool

Geek-talk for a possible file system or hardware failure. Check your HDD for errors or corruption. More info >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176646 http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/17498-trouble-installing-latest-version/?p=301081

RE: Magic Wand Press F1 in Paint.NET to be taken to the online documentation. Lots of good info there on the tools and effects etc...,

August Update 14 new plugins this month, including a new filetype and a new Plugin Pack. Welcome to new author @JoZ1! The veritable tsunami of new plugins from TechnoRobbo continues... Base 64 filetype - @null54. Loads and saves Base64 encoded images. Only BMP and PNG format images can be saved. The format of the text file is UTF8. Imgur Uploader - @JoZ1. Upload images directly from Paint.NET to imgur.com. Returns links to image in a number of formats. TechnoRobbo's Plugin Pak - @TechnoRobbo. TechnoRobbo's Plugin Pak. Contains: TR's Displacement Map, TR's ZigZag, TR's Tesla Coil, TR's Star Filter, TR's Scatter, TR's Cloud Control, Tessellation Combo, Noise Bleacher, Line Tracer, Layer Cake, Full Spectrum Posterizer, Fish Eye, Edge Fader Extreme, Distort This!, CMY Ghost, Cycle HSV, TR's Halftone, TR's Colorizer HMS, TR's Tiled Pixels, TR's Pixel Sharpener, TR's B&W Photo, TR's Bokeh, TR's Pixel Pusher, TR's Tilt Shift, TR's Contour Filler. TR's B&W Photo - @TechnoRobbo. Simulates the use of color filters and hot spots in B&W photography. TR's Bokeh - @TechnoRobbo. A classic photographic effect of multicolored diffuse circles overlaid over the image. Almost like blurred christmas lights. TR's Cloud Control - @TechnoRobbo. Renders configurable clouds to the layer or selection. TR's Colorizer HMS - @TechnoRobbo. Smoothly adjust the image colorization between three color ranges (highlights, midtones & shadow). TR's Contour Filler - @TechnoRobbo. Gradient fill effect which conforms to the contour of the Alpha Channel. TR's Halftone - @TechnoRobbo. Simulate Halftone printing (technique used in newspapers and magazines) by interpreting color depth as a Dot or Square. TR's Pixel Pusher - @TechnoRobbo. Distort images via stretching and squashing in a manner mimicing a fairground mirror. TR's Pixel Sharpener - @TechnoRobbo. Sharpen photos by emphasising detail and adding noise type texture. TR's Star Filter - @TechnoRobbo. Adds sparkle or glitter to image highlights. Similar to MadJik's Star Glow TR's Tesla Coil - @TechnoRobbo. Simulates an electrical arc with configurable start and end points, thickness, intensity and more. TR's Tiled Pixels - @TechnoRobbo. Pixelate an image or selection and simultaneously apply a shape to the enlarged pixels. TR's Tilt Shift - @TechnoRobbo. A directional gradient blur tool designed to easily achieve an apparent change in the filed of view.

Should this be Contour Filler or Color Filler? The *.dll name doesn't match the thread title.

Glad you got it sorted! I hope you have fun with your game mods. I should have said: Welcome to the forum