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@Panic the fonts in your signatures are too in-your-face for the backgrounds that you have. Experiment with different combinations of layer blend modes; look at chrisco97's signature, see how the text "fits" with the rest of the picture? Also (the second signature especially) doesn't have much depth to it--sometimes that's okay--but when there's random lines all over the place generally the image is abstract and it has to have more than three layers of depth. The colour combinations aren't well thought-out, and they look better in black and white. My advice would be to learn about layers because it doesn't look like you're using them effectively. Do a few of the stickied tutorials, you'll improve quickly. EDIT: since this has basically been a necropost (that image was posted over SIX MONTHS ago) here's a new image. I'm not trying to being disrespectful, but he hasn't logged in since last October and surely there are bounds of reason. Anyway, the stocks are a photo I took of lego peices and a soundwave that I took a screenshot of in foobar2000. Okay, I was adding a stock of a city a nighttime behind this to fill my whole desktop. I messed around a bit and got this:

The Radiohead Amnesiac image.

AFAIK plugins can't access multiple layers. However, you could use an external macro program, and if you allow time for effects to finish I can't see any problems with using one. I don't know any good macro recorders BTW, so I can't help you there.

New image.

That eye is awesome. Sorry for the unhelpfulness, but I can't really fault it.

That doesn't work with blend modes, for example I could want to have an overlay layer duplicated, even if the objects inside the layer are 100% opaque. It is helpful for that, yes but I think this way is more elegant. I understand that, but a transparent object in a fully opaque layer is still transparent. Putting the opacity to 510 should reduce anti-aliasing for example--and yes I know there is a plugin for that. But no plugin will work for doubling blend mode intensity, surely somebody else understands what I'm rambling about and has had the same issue.

Perhaps you are only thinking about opaque layers, in which case, no it does not make sense. It makes perfect sense if you are using transparent objects (and don't want to waste time merging a whole bunch), or using layer blends (which you can't merge down (sometimes you can with print-screen trickery, but most of the time you can't)) and don't want to have a orgy of layers, manually moving each one. It's not so bad when you can group layers or select them all at once, but you can't in PdN and this would be a solution for those occasions.

For example, increasing the value past 255 to 510 should have the same effect as putting two layers on top of each other. I'm not sure how feasible this is, but it makes sense to me and it would be useful. Oh and ">" means "greater than" if you were unclear on that.

The slider would still finish at 255, but you could increase the value past this by typing. This would be helpful when you need to duplicate a layer ten times to get the effect you want, and it wouldn't add anything to the UI. Any comments?

The How-to Geek had an article about changing the colour of the Windows 7 taskbar without changing the windows. I'm sure everybody here would have already known how to do this but it's still publicity.

Ah bloody potato I meant to edit my original post and now I don't know how to delete this one Sorry

Er I just thought of a suggestion. Under "Utilities > Language" perhaps you could have "Install" linking to the Localization Forum. Just a thought e: Noticed the Utilities menu in the Help docs isn't in the sidebar (where I'm guessing it belongs above "Window"), not sure if that's indended or not

Sorry about my previous answer lol but seriously here's a PDN in a ZIP which gives you the basic idea. Just use a gradient have the primary colour set to "000000" (Black) and the second colour to be completely transparent (you have to click the "More >>" button in the colour window and then set "Transparancy" to "0"). Make a new layer, then click and drag over your boobs. I think I did them in separate layers because they needed different transparancy, but I'm not sure (and I'm too lazy to check). To change the transparancy of the layers double click on them (the Layers windows should be in the bottom right of the screen). It sounds difficult but it takes 5 seconds to do, so don't be discouraged.

No way to stop the splash. There is an options dialog of sorts but its not comprehensive. It's under "Tool: > Choose Defaults..." btw

So... you are psychic? Thanks for the new version.

Does that progress bar in the taskbar work for plugins? I would check myself but I don't have W7 =( Thanks for the release

@hallbuzzdotcom that has been moved to Effects > Photo. If it's not there perhaps you need to get the latest version of the plugin

And remember that when you print you should have it at 300dpi for high quality.

Mendo most of the incompatible plugins have already been updated so check that forum for the updates.

Procrastination of the school work that I actually need to do.

Thanks Rick. Are you going to put all of the PdN icons in the 'Resources\en-US' folder?