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Oma has pointed out that the Panelling plugin parallels what I did with ShiftIt. I shall discard ShiftIt in favour of the superior Panelling plugin. I would still value opinions on the other two tools.

Aside from recreational drugs you mean? Try searching for "Magic Eye" and see if you can find any untried viewing tips. If you find one that works for you, please let us know! Aside from that - sorry, I just build 'em.

When developing the techniques to create Stereograms (stereogram tutorial), I came up with a number of plugin tools to make the work easier. I'm wondering if these should be released to the general forum? ShiftIt.dll The first tool I developed. It simply moves a layer/selection by a number of pixels. Directions are Left/Right and Up/Down. This tool was useful at first (especially when I needed to repeat the shift multiple times and could do so with Ctrl+F 😉 ), but became largely obsolete after I developed the next two. PDN has to have some way of doing this that I missed right? Echo.dll Tiles from the top left corner in selectable width/height strips. Made to ease the creation of stereogram backgrounds. In the end I was doing this so often I made a Scriptlab script to hack out backgrounds in the twinkling on an eye! Running this plugin replaces steps 3-9 in the tutorial. Although I didn't use the vertical tiling when creating backgrounds, it seemed appropriate to include this facility in the plugin. [edit] run it on an entire layer, not a selection [/edit]. Backfill.dll The heart of the stereogram technique is the backfilling. This plugin takes the cutout element and makes both the initial right shift (step 17) and also does the backfilling (steps 18-26) in one go. You'll find these three plugins in the (temporary) folder Effects>>Stereogram for evaluation purposes. I'm almost certain to release "Backfill", and tempted to release "Echo". Does "ShiftIt" merit release? Your opinions are welcomed. Stereogram Tools.zip

You need Simon Brown's watermark plugin. His original plugin (EasyWatermark) was discontinued and replaced with an improved version called "PDNWatermark". Here's the link to the custom search tool: http://www.getpaint.net/search.html Your search term should be (of course) "PDNWatermark"

When you select the text tool , a menubar appears allowing you to change the font, size, etc.., Use the font dropdown box to select a neat looking font and then increase the size to your hearts content. for more on this: Click Here (these helpfiles are available if you press F1 :wink: ). Text is written using the currently selected Primary color. Change that and your text will change too.

Are you trying to create the scene from scratch, or do you have a photo you wish to enhance? If the latter, try this plugin: Sparkle For information on how to use and install plugins: Click here

Yes please! I would actually prefer a load-all (into the dropdown list) from a specific area/folder/textfile. Thus all my matrices would be loaded and I could pick & choose from the dropdown list - rather than hunting and loading a specific one from (say) a folder.

It looks similar to the Escher/Droste effect (plugin) http://www.getpaint.net/search.html search term "Escher" or "Droste"

I think Simon meant Ctrl+Shift+X :wink: This combination clips the image/canvas to the current selection size. So if you select your "scratch" area, then invert the selection with Ctrl-I and then hit Ctrl+Shift+X it will resize back to the original dimension.

I'm not sure that you can save a multi-layer *.TIFF. This post has the lowdown on the image types, and what is saved along with them: viewtopic.php?p=216729#p216729. According to Myrddin, saving from PDN as a *.TIFF does not retain the layer information. At the bottom of the above post there is mention of a Photoshop file plugin which would allow you to save the image as a *.psd. Would that be of any use?

The grey checkerboard indicates transparency :wink: So if you can see the checkerboard, then that part of an image is transparent. Some image types support transparency, and some don't. So the format you choose when saving may allow you to take the transparency with your image (like a *.GIF image). Check this link out for more info: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=24593&start=0

Try the rounded rectangle plugin by Tim!: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=29439 This plugin gives you loads of options.

So I'll just cross you off the potential list of beta-testers for the backfilling plugin shall I? Shame Actually I have been working on a plugin to do backfilling (steps 18-26), and the initial right move (step 17). Anyone wanting to give it a run through should PM me.

I'll bet this is it to do with your blog code and not your image. Use CSS to turn the image border off - like you did for your banner. In fact it's not a bad idea to turn all your images' border off with a global CSS statement like this: img { border-style: none; }

If you're looking to begin coding effects, the answers provided by BoltBait to this thread are a particularly good place to begin: viewtopic.php?p=261395#p261395

I believe that the intent was to change the name from Jeremy to Chunky? First you're going to have to erase "Jeremy" or overlay that part of the image with something else. On a new layer :AddNewLayer:, place a large rounded (filled) rectangle in a similar color to the "Jeremy" surroundings + repeated blurs : :GaussianBlur: or even glow :Glow: might just do the trick. Second you're going to have to find a large outlined font that you like (check out http://www.dafont.com). Install the font (viewtopic.php?p=23856#p23856), then restart Paint.NET. On a new layer :AddNewLayer:(above the one from the first step), use the text tool to write the name in place using your new font. Now you can follow pophiri's technique to import the images into the center of each letter.

There are stacks of tutorials in that section of this forum: viewforum.php?f=29

Have you seen this tutorial? Polaroid Collage

I have tried three times to get them to remove my plugins, but their automated contact form won't accept my email address. I shall have to try another method...., Nice looking, yes, but it's laid out using tables, ugh!

There is always the PM button (Private Message). This allows you to contact the plugin Author directly. But there is a word of caution: be sure you have read through the thread pertaining to the plugin to make sure you're not rehashing a known problem. Another thought on this issue: Wouldn't your inquiry (and solution) benefit others? I believe that this is one of the strengths of the forum.

It's unecessary to check every time. Just click the "view plugin errors" when you update the version of PDN or download a new plugin. If you encounter a crash when using a plugin, then check for an update (this shouldn't happen too often though). More on this can be found here: http://blog.getpaint.net/2007/10/31/pai ... or-plugins Plugins are downloaded by thousands of users. I'm simply not going to track a huge list of downloaders in order to tell them to update. Sorry.

Effect Plugins reside in the Paint.NET/Effects folder. Filetypes (those plugins that deal with what types of files can be saved & loaded) reside in the Paint.NET/FileTypes folder. Both of these folders should be present after you install PDN.

You're welcome! Your picture doesn't look "newbie" to me! BTW You can post your images in the Pictorium (where you can even create your own thread for stuff you've done).

Periodically hit the PREVIEW button when typing long missives :wink:

I have a feeling I saw that file in a release by KrisVDM - but I think it was in a source folder so it shouldn't be "found" by most users. My humblest apologies to KrisVDM if I am mistaken here.