Curmudgeon

looks pretty cool...I would change one thing however. for the text at the bottom, where it shows the date and location, I can't read a word it says. you might want to do a light colored drop shadow on the text so it is legible against the red background.

There is a border plugin you can use: http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=4799&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=border I prefer bevel instead, found here ==>http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=6526&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=bevel

That works great for tiling the texture over and over in a selection...but it doesn't like Targa files (it crashes every time I've tried using it with a .tga), so if your texture is a .tga then convert it first to a .png

http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1238&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=psd#p5399 is the link for the PSD file plugin. As it's for a file type, it needs to be stored in the file types folder, not the effects folder as with most other plugins

Yes, and with the .psd filetype plugin, it opens the file no problem

Not in the color palette if that's what you mean. You can open the texture and adjust it in Paint.NET quite easily though.

Yes, as I'm another SL'er, and have made many textures using Paint.NET, it's quite possible. And most of SL's files are usually targas, not tif's : ) But you can upload .bmp, .jpg, .tga, and .png into SL

yes, the .psd file can be loaded into Paint.NET (with the .psd file-type plugin) and you can work on the individual layers, and then import into SL

I'm not this experienced in PDN yet, so please could you explain kind of step by step what you mean by that? Is there an option to choose "100%" (or less) of a color, and if so: where? :oops: When you click "more" you can adjust the HSV sliders (HSV means (H)ue, (S)aturation, (V)alue) so when you adjusted the saturation slider it just desaturated it. Lowering the "V" number would basically make it darker.

Do you have an example of "steampunk" style? Guess I'm showing my age here...

Do you have an example of "steampunk" style? Guess I'm showing my age here...

to add to Myrddin's post: you can also bucket fill with your secondary color by choosing the paint-bucket tool, and right-clicking on the page to fill it. also, for the parchment fill, that would work if your parchment is the size you require, otherwise you can use the photo-flood fill plugin to tile the image over and over in the selection

if the line was on a layer by itself, you can duplicate the layer and use the panelling plugin (or alternatively the layers>rotate/zoom function). or else you could just use the diagonal lines plugin and render your lines spaced the way you want them

Wow, I guess I really am a n00b then because I still use Sepia often...it's the quickest way I've found to get the undertone I desire for burnished metallic textures. Please do teach us your way! I'd love to be a master!

When you do the transparent gradient, use the right-mouse button to perform it, and it should work the way it's supposed to in the tutorial.

Did you attempt a search at all? If so, you should have seen that even though there isn't a native Smudge tool built-in to Paint.NET, there is a Smudge plugin that was written...

There are no Pantone codes in Paint.NET. You'd have to see if there was a Pantone to HEX or RGB, or even HSV code conversion somewhere online. And my two cents...Pantone colors are worthless, as in my past experience, they are just dyes, which over time, fade terribly.

Not sure what this is supposed to mean...are you requesting help how to use the clone stamp? requesting a clone tool? what? Paint.NET already has a clone stamp tool, and the link below tells how to use it. http://www.getpaint.net/doc/latest/en/CloneStamp.html However, when changing a person's hair color, that's one of the tools which wouldn't come to my mind. I'd first consider: Recolor Conditional Hue/Saturation Selections, then using overlay in blending mode etc.

This is what I use to separate .GIF's into separate frames: http://www.gifworks.com/image_editor.html You upload the file to their site, and under the "optimize" tab, you can separate it into individual frames, then save them to your computer for editing. (but if you assembled the .gif, don't you have the original images used to create it?) And "Flatten" can be found under the "Images" tab at the top of the Paint.NET interface. It flattens all the layers from the top down into one layer.

and use plenty of feathering

might help if you also started out with a larger image...although I found a bunch of them, none was larger than 180x212 pixels

There are a number of ways to do it. Different people like different methods. As for myself, I prefer Conditional Hue/Saturation, so that's what I used here. I simply lasso selected his head, and used the Conditional Hue/Saturation plugin to give him a rainbow colored hairdo. I'm sure others will chime in their preferred methods so you can choose what's easiest for you.

First of all, you'd have to breakdown the animated image into it's individual frames (using something like the tool at http://gifworks.com), then modify each frame with the hair the way you want it, and save each inividual frame, then create another animated image using your new frames

My guess is that you didn't do step 5 or 6, or both. In those steps it tells you to magic wand select the areas you want to remain colored, and then to copy those selections into a new layer. Then to deselect your selections. In your layers window is where you see the different layers you have created. You can create new layers, delete layers, duplicate layers, or move layers up or down. And to reset your layers window to it's original position, click on the 'windows' tab in Paint.NET and you'll see the windows you can hide or show. In this case, you need to press F7. A brief refresher would be to read about layers in the help section by pressing F1 while in Paint.NET.

yes if you click on search and use the word 'spotlight' you'll see the same question asked a while back