Curmudgeon

ehh, wrong answer I just opened his zip file from the page and it clearly shows Nebulous inside

Nebulous is part of Madjik's plugin pack

I got something close with clouds, dents and pixelate

I believe it uses the colors of your current theme. So if you change your theme, the colors of the UI in Paint.NET would change as well.

Ever since Max posted his tutorial earlier this year making medals, I've liked to use his ideas. You can check out the tutorial here: http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=25452&p=195708

Well, just keep in mind, that it will slow down Paint.NET opening up immensely with tons of fonts

in Vista, if you right-click an image file, you can click "Open with..." and then select "Choose default program" where you can choose Paint.NET to open that type of image file. Subsequently, if you double-click an image file of that type, it would open in Paint.NET

You can try using some other plugins, such as polygons/stars or spiroshapes

just experimenting, and in 10 minutes, I came up with this... I'm sure you could do the same

if you have your 64 frame texture already made, such as a smoke puff, which I assume is just a series of cloud like textures which get larger and smaller as the frames progress, and if the clouds are on a transparent background, then it should just be a simple use of the Feather plugin, with "True Feather" enabled, which would shrink each puff slightly. If you could post a sample image, it would help immensely. I've used the same types of textures in Second Life to simulate a .gif animation.

nice effect with the faded text on it...could combine it with this tutorial for the edges and get a really nice look: http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=20024

if it's on a separate layer of it's own, have you tried the panelling plugin?

QFT The only Jpeg files that save transparency that I know of are Jpeg2000 files (aka J2K). Paint.NET doesn't use JPEG2000, so you'll need to use a format that allows transparency, such as .png, .tga, or .gif

First, please review rule 6 in the forum rules, as "Is it possible??" isn't very descriptive at all. As for the picture, if you look closely at sections of the image, you can see that it's comprised of many gradients, so that is the first thing I would try using, trying it on a collage of photos arranged similar to the sample.

one way would be to use Layers>Rotate/Zoom> and adjust your twist radius, but that will change the perspective of your image. otherwise, why not just use Image>Flip Vertical?

first, open up your background then, make a new layer :AddNewLayer: on the new layer, paste your smaller picture. press Ctrl-D to deselect (my guess is that you didn't deselect before running the align object) then run align object. if you don't want it exactly centered, you can use the panelling plugin as well to move it vertically or horizontally

if you press F1 while using Paint.NET you can view the help files...on one page is an overview of all the features that come with Paint.NET. One tab is called "Image" and under it, you will find "Canvas Size"...I believe this is what you're looking for.

Actually, Pyrochild did post a way to set your default canvas size long ago in a reply to a similar request. After using the handy-dandy search, I was able to locate it here: http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=22863

a long time ago, a similar question was brought up, and I believe it was Rick that answered it, but I'll be darned if I can find the thread at the moment... but I believe the alpha numbers were reversed, and it took one simple step to correct it. I remember I tried it out on a sample brought up in the thread, of a similar starship, but like I said, I just can't find that thread. if you save the file as a 24-bit .tga (instead of 32-bit) file some of the details appear, but I think it was something else Maybe it's as simple as using the 'color to alpha' plugin and inverting the alpha

how did you make it transparent? magic wand? if so, you should hold down "shift" when you select with the magic wand, and it would choose all the inner spaces too

looks like you could probably use the varicose plugin to get a similar effect

maybe this video tutorial would help: http://www.screenfrog.com/paintnet/lady-bug-video-tutorial/ the problem with the example you posted is that it went from a nice shiny paint job to a dull, matte look where the new color was applied

I wouldn't really call this a gallery, however, I thought it might be fun to share... The picture below is hardly an image worth recognition, except in the fact that I created it while sitting at the Atlanta airport on my laptop. A woman and her young daughter were beside me and the daughter was curious as to what I was working on (at the time I was just playing around with some font effects). I told her we could create a picture. One thing lead to another, and the image pictured below was created while waiting for my plane to board. I thought it was fun, introducing someone to the program, and seeing the joy it brought, revealed in her smile.

Here's an easy explanation compliments of Max Power: http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=25562#p197454

for parts that are missing, you could try the clone stamp :CloneStamp: for coloring an area, this video tutorial may help you: http://www.screenfrog.com/paintnet/lady-bug-video-tutorial/ Lots of different things you could try out