EternalSorrow

I decided on the Droid Sans for the "Midnight" and BankGothic for all others.

Thanks everyone for the great responses. I took all your suggestions and here's the improvement: I couldn't have done it without all your help!

I've recently gotten into the craze of writing an ebook for the Amazon Kindle and decided to design my own ebook cover. The biggest problem I've come upon is the shrinkage of the image for preview purposes when people are browsing the Kindle selection. The original size of my image is 2000 x 1200 (the recommended 1 to .6 ratio for Kindle covers). The book looks great in the original size, but when shrunk down to about 100 x 60, the text becomes pixelated. I've tried the various suggested font styles (mostly sticking to the sans-serif), but all have the pixelated look. I use the built-in text tool for paint.net. I tried making the text as larger as possible across the book cover, but the text still looks pixelated. Has anyone else come upon this trouble? Was there a solution? Is there a plugin for text that is used for ebook covers to 'merge' them into the cover images to help them blend in morre and not look so sharp? Here are two versions of my ebook cover. The Original Size can be found here. Shrunken Size: Thanks in advance for any help

I'm afraid that's the total opposite of what I'm looking for. I'm looking for the ability to save folders/files as .abr, not to view them or place them as brushes into the paint.net program.

I was curious if at any later point we would be able to convert (or save) files into the .abr format which is the standard format for photoshop brushes. Or does anyone know a way to already convert simple .png or .jpg files into .abr?

I have no idea how opaque is created, nor even what it is. Can you clarify how to perform this task? I'm not sure if you're referring to using the True Feather option for the effect, or if that is it's true name. Regardless of the strength the True Feather option creates the same stripe effect, and the default Feather effect expands the outline of the image, thus still rendering it useless for smoothing the outline. I've also noticed that when attempting to sharpen the images, using either Sharpen or Sharpen+, the entire image is striped exactly how the new feather stripes the image.

The new feather can do everything the old one did. Why? Actually, the new feather effect is quite different because it causes stripes to appear on the outer areas of the image (look to Stephan's post for the 'stripe' appearance) rather than the smooth, transparent, shrinking effect it had before (as for rendering this image here). Thus the feather effect is now useless for rendering images with a clean outline.

I am very grateful for your hard work on the wonderful plugins you have created for paint.net, but I was curious if you could bring back the original feather effect and make the new effect separate (like Stephan recommended in an earlier post). My rendering days are over if I can't cleanly feather the outline of the objects.

The photo fill plugin was just what I was looking for. Thanks for the assistance!

They are saved in a standard image format, GIF in this case. So how would one go about using them within paint.net? Do they need to be placed in a folder? Is there a plugin necessary to use them? Version: 3.2 OS: Windows XP

I was curious if patterns which were originally meant for Photoshop could somehow be used in paint.net.

Thanks for the tip (and the touch of reality). The plug-in worked great for getting the pic just right!

I've tried both saving a reduced jpg and playing with all the resizing algorithms (bilinear appears to work best), but the only thing which comes close to matching the different sizes is sharpening the smaller jpg image. The match isn't perfect, but it seems there's no other way to adapt to the change in pixel dimensions.

I've scoured the boards for help on the topic (and looked at the help file), but I can't seem to find anything specific on my question. I currently have a wallpaper image at 1024 x 768 with multiple layers, and I want to have to versions of the image (one at the original pixel size, and the other at 800 x 600). However, when I shrink the pdn image to the smaller size for saving to jpg, the image blurs. Is there any way to sharpen the entire image with multiple layers or should the image be reduced in pixel size, saved as a jpg, and then sharpened to the best of my ability? Thanks in advance for a response!