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Done. How about introducing PDNAnimator so we can all see what the fuss is about?

Ok I've split out the relevant posts concerning PDNAnimator. Find that thread here: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/26126-pdnanimator

Re PDNAnimator: When I next log on with something larger I could copy these posts to a new thread. Probably Developers Central. Would that appease?

I'm against DRM removal. The author has chosen for the digital rights to be applied for a reason, and that reason should be respected. The most common reason for DRM removal is of course illegal copying. Not that you would I know that your Kobo uses the Epub format. You (and anyone else) can get a copy of my book in this format directly from me. I'll send you a PM to explain.

Shape 3D wraps the canvas around a shape. If you make the canvas twice as wide and wrap it around the cylinder shape it might work.

Great to have you back NiteNurse79! Your post is obviously from the heart. Don't worry, you are among friends who value you. Of COURSE you can enter competitions - wouldn't have it any other way

I think the intent is all too clear. No one was forced or coerced to do anything they did not wish to. Changes have been made accordingly, and I think appropriately, in this situation. I'm sure most of us will miss NiteNurse hosting these competitions. She did a wonderful job and I want to thank her personally for that. Unfortunately what's done is done. Let's not dwell on it. I would like us to turn the page, offer DrewDale our support and understanding as he finds his feet, and find out what he has to bring to these competitions.

DrewDale has been appointed Competition Host. Congratulations DrewDale! Your first task is to remind us of the closing date for the current CityScape competition! Give yourself some extra time if necessary. For help with running the competition - please just ask me or one of the other competition hosts.

I mean that a plugin cannot make the selection larger or change it's shape. The bounds of the selection must remain unchanged.

I've reopened this competition. A new host will be appointed forthwith.

I've reopened the competition. A new host will be appointed in due course.

You can click on the thumbnail view in the image list to swap between open images. There is no way to simultaneously show multiple open images.

No two different colors are used.

Thanks Pyrochild. Thanks also to toe_head and null54 who PM'd me the source.

I don't have a problem with either, so both would be acceptable.

Links are all dead. Closing this topic unless someone can provide the DLL or source (PM me).

First: Change Primary color to grey. Add new layer. Use text tool to write S to the layer. Outline in slightly darker grey. Second: As above, but write the character in the same color as the outlining color. Third: Swap the coloring of the text and outlining, so text is written darker and outlining lighter.

Yes this is the correct place. No there isn't a way to 'sneakily bump' your Gallery. We discourage bumping. Why not add a picture and a new post to announce it? This gives viewers a mechanism to find the new items in your Gallery (i.e. view first new post), and comment on them. This is the honest way to do it

Plugins may NOT manipulate the selection region. In fact they are constrained to it. So a plugin of this type is not possible. Sorry.

The long method is to make all the other layers invisible and save. Repeat for each layer.

Consider a 16x16 pixels image. If we halve the size we end up with an 8x8 image. To achieve this compression, blocks of 2x2 pixels are blended together to give each resultant pixel. In over simple terms, each of the four source pixels might comprise 25% of the final output pixel. Now consider resizing the original to 9x9 instead of 8x8. The source image doesn't fit evenly into the new size as 16/9 is not a whole number like 16/8=2. This means that some of the output pixels will be blended from parts of pixels rather than entire pixels. This is do-able but the result is less pleasing on the eye (edit: because we are not snapping to nice, clean, whole pixel boundaries - which is where changes in color occur). Vector images draw their pixels using a series of mathematical commands. "Draw from A to B then to C and back to A" makes a triangle. If the ratio of distances between the drawing points is specified, the relationship between the points remains regardless of the image size. When asked to resize in vector terms we are asking the image to be redrawn on a smaller canvas not squishing a larger image into a smaller space.

The new data is entirely a manual compilation. Each effect has to be downloaded, unpacked, the dll determined, loaded into PDN, PDN restarted, effect location found & finally tested. Takes ages I am still considering the formats. It was downright disappointing to find the lists wouldn't fit in forum posts as they used to. That's why I had to simplify the author list at the last minute. I may simply stuff the pdf and ebook versions with extra lists (plugin packs, dll, filetypes, by menu, etc...,). There are loads of options if we have the space. Best rediscovery? I've had one or two delightful finds. TreeGen + Glow was a simple pleasure to find. So too was one of MadJiks gradient effects + Lightning.

You're welcome spazman44. It's good to have you here on the forum

This CANNOT be done without losing quality, somewhere, unless you're working with vector images - which Paint.NET does not. A raster application like Paint.NET must either blend pixels together or entirely remove them in order to make an image take up fewer pixels. Pixel removal by seam carving gets close. To answer the original question: You need to resize the image by a factor of two. Halve the size or quarter it. 1/8 or 1/16 will also work. Reductions of this order blend an equivalent number of source pixels to reach a smaller number of output pixels, so the blending is uniform across the image. If necessary, crop your image beforehand so that a factor-of-two reduction brings it down to the target size. You can always run Effects > Photo > Sharpen (at a size of 1 or 2) to enhance detail following a size reduction.

I first thought this was like the Jitter effect from Pyrochild's Plugin Pack. Other options: Waves or Sine Waves from this plugin pack MadJik's Plugin Pack.