Curmudgeon

Drop Shadow certainly isn't obsolete...I just used it. But you have to make sure you download the newest Vandermotten effects for the newest Paint.NET versions. Alternatively, BoltBait's Outline plugin, or Pyrochild's Outline Object effectively do the same thing. Question to you is: Is the object you're trying to do a drop shadow on a transparent background? Otherwise, if it's on the white background layer, then the drop shadow is attempting to put a drop shadow on the outside of the whole layer.

when saving as a .gif, you need to be mindful of your transparency threshold.

my suggestion is that we include keywords, something the search engine will pick up on, such as: cutout cut-out cutting out removing transferring and so forth... it gets rather redundant hearing similar queries which relate to the same thing

I really don't have the time to read it all...maybe someone can just answer me one question. Does this perform something similar to the Focal Point plugin already available? From a quick scan, it appears that's what is accomplished.

Seen "in-world" in Second Life. When it's clicked on, it prompts you to load the webpage for getpaint.net

I assume this is something like what you see...the residual bits around an object Select the clone stamp, and find an area that is "dirt-free". Click CTRL and left-click the mouse button to select the anchor point. (the pointer turns to an anchor while you hold CTRL) That will be the area you will be clone stamping from. Then left-click and draw over the "dirty" area and it will be drawing from the clean area over it.

If the background is all the same color (no gradient or anything applied) the clone stamp would be a good choice. Just set the anchor point to an area that's "dirt-free" and draw that area over the dirty areas.

Here, have another moon...

If the "dirty" spots are easily accessible, I'd try to use clone stamp first.

You'll need to post it to a hosting site, and then use the tags to display it here

Seeing a photo does help immensely. I started one, and it wasn't terribly difficult. Do the outline of the shape with the line tool using bezier curves and aliased lines. On a new layer fill the shape with the color of your choice, and run basic antialias on it to get nice smooth edges. Then run drop shadow down and right about 5 pixels to give it some depth. On another layer you can use the rectangle tool for the neck with 'filled shape' selected. Then use layer>rotate/zoom to adjust the twist radius so it looks like it tapers. Select the neck, and on a new layer, render diagonal lines at 0° for your frets. After that, use line/curve tool again to make the headstock, and then you just need to make the strings. For a different graphic on the face, you can fill in the body with a graphic of your choice, or put the graphic on a new layer and use blend modes.

Give me a moment for my psychic helmet to kick in... Really, a picture of one would be pretty special in this case, or even a link to an image, whatever... "one of Daron Malakian's" is about as vague as I've ever seen here.

when they mentioned a steel plate with the hex bolts, in my mind I pictured just that...a steel plate with only the hex heads of the bolts showing, thus, the information I provided something like this is what I had in mind:

There's a polygon/stars plugin you can use to render a hexagonal shape (6 vertices)...the easiest way to make a hexagon

perhaps you should try the point warp or power stretch plugins

text on a new layer...align object to center...polar transformation using rectangular to polar..voilà

this has been asked numerous times before with an almost identical query... http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=24110

I do it too, but Ctrl-Z undoes the last step...

For this one, I just took the same image you already supplied, and did the lines on a new layer, then lasso selected the areas to cut out where it went behind her. Then, I gaussian blurred slightly and median blurred the tips so they come more to a point, and did the linear reflected gradient from center to the top.

magic wand select the lines you made, then use a with white as your secondary and your primary color set to full transparency, and perform the gradient from the center upwards or downwards

read this: http://paintdotnet.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2023 you don't actually open the .dll files, you place them in the correct folder and Paint.NET opens them... and new threads here are for plugin publishing only...chances are this thread will be locked.

You really should browse the tutorials. For a while, there were a rash of tutorials which featured your face on fruit, your text on a donut, decals on cars, you name it... All the same principle, except you're placing text on a shot glass.

In case it's not in a white color, use the clone stamp to clone over the date, then put a new date on.

followed by relief helps even more

The resize does that, if you uncheck the "maintain aspect ratio" However, you might want to also look at Canvas Size in help, found in the Image menu With Canvas Size, you can choose where to anchor the image when resizing the canvas you're working on.